Background
AAA defines “Alliancing” as the set of business skills, practice and systems which allow the successful development and management of strategic collaborative business engagements including Project-based Alliances and Collaboration(ECI), Strategic Alliances, Supply Chain Alliances, Services Alliances (capex or opex), Planning Alliances.
Strategic means that the outcomes of the collaborative engagement has a direct impact of "Shareholder" value. In the case of Public Sector infrastructure collaboration, the shareholders are the citizens, government, business or private entities or persons, who use the infrastructure for value-generating activities for themselves, for their organisation, for industry or for the Nation.
The Alliancing Association is an independent, nor-for-profit cross-industry initiative created by practitioners for practitioners to develop their excellence in business collaboration.
The Alliancing Association of Australasia (AAA) was formally established in January 2006 as an incorporated entity resulting from the amalgamation of two interest-related groups that have developed since 2004 in Australia:
> Alliance Industries Association (AIA) focused on project and service-based alliances,
> Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals of Australasia (ASAPA) concerned with strategic alliances.
AAA was formed to serve organizations and their professionals involved in both project, service and strategic alliancing in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) reflecting the specific opportunities, challenges and particularities of the region. AAA is focused on providing a forum for those individuals and organizations who are or want to have involvement in alliances so they can leverage a pool of knowledge to assist them to:
> Strengthening their alliancing and strategic collaboration competencies,
> Developing the alliance formation and delivery capabilities of their business
> Voice their ideas, concerns on the challenges and the practices of Alliancing
> Assist in the evolution of alliancing models in consideration with our changing business environment
AAA conducts an annual conference, annual awards program, organizes quarterly networking events and Forums and offers workshops and seminars.
The association exists in recognition of the shift in the pattern by which Australian and New Zealand organisations increasingly employ alliances and collaborative business practices to improve their outcomes and strengthen their competitive position.
The association aims is to create a wider understanding on the benefits and the organisational, competencies and systems complexities of working with Alliances and strategic collaboration and encourage professionals and their organisations to commit to use best practices when creating and managing collaborative business engagements.