Durable relationships
are your untapped
competitive advantage.
Fragile relationships with customers, talent, suppliers, and investors are your greatest vulnerability.
Turning Disruption Into Dominance
Here are FIVE WAYS we help leaders dominate their markets:
Relationship Durability
What happens when relationships move from transactional to durable? Stronger productivity, enthusiasm, and innovation from talent. Deeper customer relationships. More resilient supply chains with partner collaboration.
Relationship Foresight
While others react, we help your team have extended vision into their most important ecosystem relationships. “Super-vision” sensing capabilities and decision frameworks transform uncertainty into your competitive edge.
Transformation Architecture
Market leaders don't just manage change - they lead and orchestrate it. Our approach addresses an important truth – technology and process change efforts cannot succeed without attention to the relationships they impact.
Ecosystem Engineering
Your most powerful asset? An unshakeable network of resilient relationships. We help you diagnose, design and optimize relationships across your value chain that competitors can't replicate and market shifts can't disrupt.
AI Acceleration
Leaders understand that AI is fundamentally a means to augment and amplify human intelligence. We help you multiply the human+AI potential into market-moving results.
COMPETE
Today's market punishes fragile relationships with investors, customers, talent and suppliers. Tomorrow's leaders build resiliency into their DNA through durable relationships that can thrive under pressure.
TRANSFORM
Most transformation efforts fail. They rely on outdated playbooks and ignore critical stakeholder relationships. Market leaders are writing new rules – successfully orchestrating ongoing change and adaptivity across their ecosystem.
INNOVATE
Your competitive edge isn't locked in an innovation lab. It's embedded in the many relationships with talent, partners, customers, and suppliers. Winners systematically tap this network of insights, turning their entire organization into an innovation engine.
EXECUTE
While competitors wrestle with burnout and resistance, pioneers build environments where mutual value relationships energize execution. They’re creating organizations where teams enthusiastically own the mission and reinvent how work gets done.
Why Choose Us
Relationship Experts
When market-moving deals collapse, mergers fail, or transformations derail, post-mortems reveal a common blind spot: strategic relationship breakdowns that no one saw coming. While your competitors focus on traditional metrics, market leaders are gaining unprecedented advantage through relationship durability and intelligence.
Strategic Thinking & Architecture
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Proprietary diagnostics that spot risks others miss
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Strategic frameworks for igniting imagination and innovation
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Tempered and realistic planning for strategic steps
Advanced Relationship Design Tools
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Organization design for staying aligned with evolving strategic goals
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Role diagnostics for addressing challenges at the root level
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Role and relationship design tools for optimal mutual value
Relationship Intelligence & Empowerment Systems
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Systems for amplifying agency and impact
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Monitoring and early warning for mission critical relationships
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Rapid intervention and resolution capabilities
Neutral Third-Party Guidance & Support
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Objective relationship intelligence
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Third-party risk validation
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Strategic mediation when needed
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"We teach frameworks and strategies in every area of business school, except relationship building, despite the fact that building successful business relationships is foundational to how business must be done today and tomorrow."
– Dr. Sandy Jap,
from "Partnering with the Frenemy"
