Advice

GBPA’s advisory services are tailored to address specific internal collaboration and external business partnering issues. GBPA works with both client and service provider organisations to facilitate more collaborative relationships so as to achieve greater mutual value.

GBPA’s advisory services are underpinned by GBPA’s research-led Discovery programme that provides GBPA with deep understanding of critical partnering and collaboration issues, and provides clients with access to best practice, valuable insights and practical solutions that give them competitive advantage.

GBPA’s business partnering, outsourcing and internal collaboration advisory services include:

The Collaborative Journey™

In response to relationship challenges associated with Customer / Service Provider relationships – including complex, multi-sourcing relationships - GBPA has developed The Collaborative Journey ™ to enable customer and service provider organisations to move together from transactional, through collaborative to effective and sustainable value adding strategic partnering relationships.  

Partnering Process Approach

Addresses the need for a coherent partnership approach to be developed and adopted within a particular organisation to enable effective internal and external partnering.  It is a practical step-by-step approach that develops in-house partnering expertise.

Collaborative Team Development Programme

Creates a dynamic senior executive team with the right values, mindset and approach who are able to drive major change. The programme combines regular one-to-one interactions and group sessions over an intensive timeframe, based on a combination of GBPA’s diagnostics, tools, frameworks and facilitation techniques.

Relational Capabilities Framework

Establishes the core capabilities and effective behaviours for Relationship Managers (RMs) to enable organisations to explore and understand their expectations in the selection and development of RMs, provide focus for the ongoing review of RM performance and development of effective RMs, support the transitioning process when there is a change of RM. Read more

Best-practice Workshops

In addition, GBPA facilitates Best-practice Workshops. Drawing on the best practice developed from GBPA’s Discovery programme, bespoke advisory services and Special Interest Forums, GBPA facilitates a wide range of in-company workshops that include: organisational culture, cultural understanding (with particular emphasis on India and China), relational capabilities, client’s sourcing partner clinics, relationship management, internal collaboration, strategic partnering, collaborative innovation, and building trust.

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