16 2014 ASAP Global Alliance Summit > March 10 – 13, 2014 > Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Alliance Excellence Awards

Celebrate the Expertise and Leadership of

ASAP Alliance Excellence Award Finalists!

Wednesday, March 12, 4:40-5:40 p.m.

The 2014 ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards shine the spotlight on those exemplars of

business collaboration—organizations that epitomize the expertise to collaborate and

leadership to perform. An ASAP Alliance Excellence Award is the world’s most prestigious

honor for business collaborators—the world’s premier award celebrating advancements

in the management of strategic alliances.

2014 ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards Finalists

This year’s finalists share their real-world experiences and demonstrate how effective

alliance management delivers meaningful results—revenue grown, markets captured,

customers delighted, solutions delivered, communities served, lives transformed. The

ASAP Alliance Excellence Awards recognize the people and teams, relationships, and

approaches that foster collaborative culture and nurture collaborative engagements, for

years or even decades. And with the 2014 ASAP Chapter Excellence Awards, we

recognize the efforts of those who build community and advance the profession of

alliance management among practitioners on the local and regional level.

The Alliance Excellence Awards acknowledge major corporations, mid-sized enterprises,

start-ups and public-private initiatives alike across a diverse array of industries. Some of

this year’s finalists and winners have been honored before; others will for the first time

join prestigious company that includes Schneider Electric, Oracle, Deloitte, SAS,

Coherence, IBM, SAP, Cisco, HP, Xerox, Turkcell, Teradata, Novartis, Eli Lilly and Company,

Roche, Ipsen, Inspiration Pharmaceuticals, P&G, Harley Davidson, Starbucks, and Federal

Express, among others.

F INAL ISTS

> Cisco

> Covance

> DNDi

> Eli Lilly and Company

> Janssen Biotech

> KPMG LLP

> Microsoft Canada

> NetApp

> Sanofi

> SAS Institute

> Schneider Electric

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Alliance Excellence Awards

ASAP Alliance Excellence Award Categories

Alliances for Corporate Social Responsibility—alliances that have made a profound, measurable, and positive socialimpact. The principal objective of the alliance should be social impact, not profit—although profit, especially if used to fundprogram expansion, is not discouraged.

Alliance Program Excellence—organizations that have instilled the capability to consistently implement and managealliance portfolios and demonstrated consistent success of those alliances over time. Winners will have programs built on anintegrated suite of processes, tools, professional development/alliance professional certification, and other elements.

Individual Alliance Excellence

Excellence in planning, implementation, and results of a single alliance. The alliance may be between two companies ormultiple organizations. Up to two awards are given each year in the category of small-to-midsize company alliance, emergingalliance, and/or emerging alliance.

Innovative Alliance Best Practice

New individual alliance management tools or processes that have made an immediate and powerful impact on theorganization and/or the discipline of alliance management. These tools or processes are not comprehensive allianceprograms, but additions to existing portfolios that address specific elements of alliance management such as measurement,training, conflict resolution, general communication across the partner ecosystem, or similar facet of the discipline.