• Champions of Change
  
• In Charge of Change
  
• Alliances and Partnership Strategies
  

Champions of Change - A Global Report on Leading Business Transformation
Author: Douglas A. Ready
President, ICEDR

• This study, co-sponsored by ICEDR and Gemini Consulting, examines the challenges that leaders are facing in building tomorrow's organizations, and the organizational and leadership capabilities that are required to succeed.
  
• Over 1450 executives from 12 major global corporations offered their experience and insights to the study, the largest of its kind to date. The book presents the major findings and suggestions for action. Comprehensive survey results are included.
  

In Charge of Change - Insights into Next-Generation Organizations
Editor: Douglas A. Ready
President, ICEDR

• In Charge of Change is a series of presentations given at ICEDR's 1994 Symposium. The Symposium showcased ICEDR's work, with leading academic presenters including Ikujiro Nonaka, Christopher Bartlett, Vladimir Pucik, Gordon Redding, Morgan McCall, and more.
  
• The book includes a number of practical corporate case examples presented by corporate executives from global companies including Yamaha, Broken Hill Proprietary, The Wellcome Foundation (now GlaxoWellcome), ABB, and more.
  
• Topics covered include Strategic HR and Executive Development, Organizational Transformation, and Knowledge Transfer.
  

Alliances and Partnership Strategies - A Guide to Managing Successful Alliances
Author: Robert E. Spekman, et al.
Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration, The Darden School, University of Virginia

• This straightforward guide is designed for managers who are entering into and managing alliances, teaching the lessons that businesses have learned about managing successful alliances.
  
• The book offers concrete guidelines and tools for managing successful alliances, concentrating on four issues:
  

-	How alliances work, and their predictable life cycles
-	The interdependence of business and personal relationships
-	How healthy alliances balance alliance spirit and alliance "static"
-	The successful alliance manager's roles, responsibilities, and skills

• This ICEDR-sponsored research also supported the development of Darden's "Creating Successful Alliances & Partnerships" Executive Program course and the 1999 book "Alliance Competence: Managing the Value of Your Partnerships".
  

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