As an example of S & P's Ultimate Core - to build up and upgrade Partnerships in connection of Breakthroughs - we have launched a systematic tool for designing these partnerships. The purpose of the ‘Wheel of Innovative Partnering’ is to manage the analysis and enhancement prosess.

It might concern dual or multiple relationships and virtual networks with Preferred Customers, Key Suppliers or other major Collaborating Partners for example in R & D. In certain cases selected Complementors and even Competitors or Partners in converging industries are of major importance as well.

For further details of the key elements and contents of this four-step process as well as its customized implementation you are welcome to discuss with us.

Meanwhile, we are pleased to present as above our symbol for designing powerful, creative portfolios of smart Partnerships, Alliances and ValueNets. In a complex world of today a successful business requires not only one or two ground-breaking relationships with collaborating Partners, but a whole portfolio of vertical, horizontal and/or diagonal (converged) Partnerships. This is a new kind of game with different kind of competence and creativity!