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Strategic alliances in the corporate environment

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(Research Project) M.B.A.
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2006
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This paper concentrates on research regarding the various types of strategic alliances that are employed within the corporate environment. A strategic alliance defined is the sharing of resources between two or more companies in order to provide shared benefits that otherwise individually would be more difficult to realise. This paper applies the findings to the Engineering Line of Business (ELoB) of BC Hydro, a Crown corporation in British Columbia. ELoB is entering a transition phase where deregulation is a distinct possibility in the horizon of the electrical industry in BC. In order to position itself to sustain and then grow in the marketplace, ELoB must pay attention to its core business which consists of Transmission Engineering, Distribution Engineering, and Generation Engineering. ELoB must also grow its people resources as it is suffering from weak succession planning from HR decisions from the 1990’s. One way of positioning ELoB to remain a leader in the hydroelectricity industry in BC is to selectively enter partnerships that can benefit ELoB and allow it to grow and reach the goals it has set for itself.
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