DIXON Partnering Solutions
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When should we partner? There can be many and varied reasons for needing to
Assessing the risks and benefits?
work in partnership with other organisations.
While the challenges for partnering are many and varied, there can be significant benefits, such as:
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You may have:
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> A tough, complex or non-routine problem and need
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other skills and resources to help create a solution
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• > To engage and partner with a community
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organisation to achieve a ‘social licence to operate’
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and reduce risk to your organisation? • •
> Enabling more creative and innovative solutions > Allowing greater integration of broader economic, social and environmental objectives
• > To partner along your supply chain to develop more
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strategic relationships and grow your business? • •
> Bringing in more resources and capacity
> Developing the skills and capacity of individual partners, and
• > Partnering as a condition of some funding stream
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> Reaching across a broader area or region
where you need to deliver programs and services
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with other organisations?g is
Weighed against this can be some of the risks, such as the
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time and effort required, the possible loss of autonomy,
These are just a few of the reasons that you may want to
the impact on an organisation’s reputation and the overall
partner. But whatever the reason you need to be very clear
challenges of working with many groups and people involved.
on - why you want to partner and not do it yourself. In any decision to move forward there needs to be a positive benefit or ‘value proposition’ for all partners as well as
Risk
the overall partnership. If we are going to embark on the partnering route, how can we be sure that we will be able to maximise the benefits while reducing the risks?
Benefit
