From the course: Developing Business Partnerships

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What's ahead

What's ahead

- If you're a business development manager or are considering taking a job in the field, congratulations. In a world that's increasingly connected, being able to identify, develop, close and manage collaborative relationships is a special and needed skill. But the nature of business partnerships is changing quickly and will require new ways of thinking. In this video, I'll take a few minutes to look with you at how one-off partnerships are changing into full-fledged ecosystems. This should help you make stronger, more informed decisions about which companies you want to work for or what strategies you'd want to take on. First, in just the last couple of years, we've seen digitization take off. What exactly is digitization? Research from Gartner says it is the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities. What this means is that analog or physical…

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