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Establish aims for collaboration
Understand market needs
Identify alternative approaches
Develop working relationships
Select partners
Assess capabilities (strengths and weaknesses)
Consider cultural issues
Build and maintain good relationships
Develop the proposition
Consider legal aspects
Sell and deliver added value soft skills
 
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Develop working relationships

Build and maintain good relationships

Relevance & importance Overview Recommendations & practical tips Warnings

This topic is about how to find and maintain good relationships in business life.

 

 

Relevance and importance

Human and business relationships (often hard to separate) are invaluable in business life. As any person, each company should always seek for relationships which can turn into partnership, co-production, know-how, or even capital.


Overview

What partner to find: customer, supplier, financial, management/licence/know-how
Status, strength and field of the possible partner and the way of future cooperation
How can be contacted or reached (foreigner or using existing connections, possible opponent or not)
Maintaining the relationship depends greatly on its nature

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Recommendations and practical tips

In such a huge and partner-dependent area we cannot give practical suggestions. Proper consideration of the key points described above can help greatly.


Warnings and potential pitfalls

As recommendations and practical tips

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