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Selecting the right company to partner with is one of the most crucial decisions that you can make. Choose the wrong partner and it will cost you dear. Embarking on a long-term relationship when your own organisation is ill prepared is a recipe for failure. You need to assess beforehand the compatibility between you and your proposed partner – not just in terms of processes and culture but also in terms of what each party brings to the alliance.

SCCI Ltd is proud to announce the launch of an addition to its renowned PartnerLink toolset. The PartnerLink Profile, partnering capability tool gives you the ability to understand and enhance your skills and expertise in relationship management. You will assess the extent to which you are prepared to share information and your willingness to adapt processes and behaviours. Above all, you can gauge your readiness to compromise your own independence in pursuit of the synergy that you believe the alliance can generate.

Traditionally 50% of alliances fail within the first year and 80% fail to realise their projected payback. The PartnerLink Profile provides you with a crucial insight into what is required to realise the visualized alliance benefits. Not only before the deal is signed but afterwards in that formative period when the seeds of ultimate success or failure are sown. More.. - November 2008 New!
It is often said that what distinguishes a good CEO from his or her peers is the ability to understand the 'big picture'. We think it goes further than that. It's also the ability to recognise how the individual pieces of the jigsaw connect to each other to form the whole. This month's article by Graham Haines 'If only ....' is about operational efficiencies - but it's also about employee engagement, participative management, communication and organisational structure and culture. And that's the challenge. The interconnectedness of today's company means that such a simple concept as identifying and correcting 'if onlys ...' can have many flow-on positives but equally not to identify them can have as many flow-on negatives. Read (5 mins) - November 2008 New!
We are pleased to announce our alliance with Personal Consultancy Solutions based in Milton Keynes. This partnership supports a number of complementary products but especially PeopleClues™ which uses scientifically designed questionnaire systems that allow organisations to "get to know our work colleagues and prospective work colleagues by understanding their instinctive needs, expectations, likely behaviour and attitudes in order to put the right person in the right job and, helping them to grow so that business achieves a stable work force" - October 2008
We have adopted a new logo and brand name, PartnerLink, for our business relationship appraisal tools. PartnerLink symbolises our ultimate objective of helping organisations to work together more productively.

- October 2008

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We wanted a benchmark supported by evidence because we did not know how well our relationship was performing. SCCI provided this.

Integrated Project Team Director, Nimrod, UK Ministry of Defence