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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

That strategy could be especially effective if the company priced access at the point just below the competitions' 'go/no-go' price for developing similar technology. Your company needs to either evolve its competitive strategy to embrace selective collaboration with rivals downstream and upstream, or prepare to become obsolete.

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Use Co-opetition to Build New Lines of Revenue

Harvard Business Review

Nalebuff have written in their book Co-Opetition , businesses that form co-opetitions become more competitive by cooperating. In many circumstances, forming co-opetitions is better than traditional collaborations because they create transparency about motivations, agendas, and goals. Collaboration Strategy'