3 lessons in effective open partnership

In the first part of this series, I presented three challenges open organizations face when seeking strategic, external partners. To quickly recap, these challenges are:

• Competition with ongoing business for scarce resources in both companies,
• Divided time, energy, and attention of shared staff, and,
• Disharmony in partnership and building a new community

I also noted that company-to-company alliances typically form through three stages, namely:

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Author: Ron McFarland
Published at: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 03:00:00 -0400

Credits: https://www.opensource.com