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[ # ] Thinking Laterally to Identify Partners for Tech Companies
March 3rd, 2009 under Partners and Alliances

To grow your company’s revenues, you can partner with companies that are already selling to your type of customer. This is a fairly linear exercise in finding the companies who fit the query: “Who has your customers and wants more of them?”

To look at it a little more laterally, your company has a technology or product with a core capability – What does this capability mean to the various industry sectors and who would it bring a competitive advantage to? In Michael Porter’s five forces, who can you help become a Substitute in particular markets.

Memory of Substitute songs: The Who and The Clout

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[ # 15389 ] Comment from Alan S. Michaels [March 4, 2009, 2:12 am]

And also…. where can your product or service create ,,, new complementary offerings.

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