Lay the foundation for external collaboration with our assessment canvas
It’s becoming more and more common for private companies and other types of organizations to set up close collaborations with target to develop new products and services, or to optimize the supply chain. The same need occur when preparing a “carve out” where part of current business are set up in a separate company.
External collaborations represent a challenge that includes organizational changes, adaptation of working methods, business and legal considerations, and not least issues related to decision-making and joint systems. This is an area in which Ekan Management has developed considerable expertise following many assignments of this type in the product development industry. Our role is then often both to act as a strategic advisor to the management, and to drive the various development initiatives required by each party.
To us as experts in this area the big challenge is often that the involved parties underestimates the challenges on move to fast in the process before contacting us. The collaboration is then built without a stabile foundation leading to increased risks and in worst case missing out on the wanted positive effects.
A tool with target to support evaluating the business feasibility and lay a stabile ground for efficient collaboration.
Below we share one of the tools we use as support in an initial assessment of feasibility for a planned collaboration between two entities. It’s of big value for us in this kind of project to capture the actual challenges to understand the best way to success ahead. The tool will help you to:
- Set priority to identified actions
- To identify project and recourse risks
- To clarify the assumptions the forms the future collaboration.
- To identify the conditions for the collaborations. As for example IP, security and other legal restrictions.
- And most important, to formulate a clear vison for how to make the future collaboration should operate.
Please fill out the form below to gain access External Collaboration Canvas the template. The file will be sent to you in a confirmation email after you have filled in all the information. You can freely use and adapt the content to your needs.