Best Practice Report

Avoiding Failure In Technology Partnerships

Twenty-One Questions Every Technology Partnership Should Answer

R "Ray" Wang
Merv Adrian
 and  three contributors
Aug 22, 2007

Summary

As business technology providers move to expand their solutions-centric ecosystems, strategists must intensely focus on partnerships across the value chain. The sad truth is that few technology partnerships are as successful as their participants wish. Most failures result from poor alignment between parties on key objectives and metrics. Forrester suggests 21 questions to drive that alignment across four core competencies: 1) building technology and product strategy; 2) aligning go-to-market (GTM) activities; 3) investing in a support ecosystem; and 4) executing the action plan.

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