Dealing with the Alignment of Strategies Within the Collaborative Networked Partners

Abstract

Abstract. Over the last years, enterprises awareness towards establishing collaborative processes has significantly grown due to the benefits obtained when participating in a collaborative network (CN). This paper is a continuation of the work developed by Andres and Poler [1] in which a set of collaborative processes are identified. This paper particularly focuses on the strategies alignment (SA) process, highlighting its influence on the success of a CN. A preliminary framework is outlined to address the collaborative process of SA, consisting of a model, a method and a methodology. Highlighting the importance of the use of cloud-based systems to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to deal with the SA process. The implementation of the proposed framework allows identifying what are the strategies that are aligned and how its activation increases the network performance, resulting in more stable and sustainable collaborative relationships, and assuring the proper operation of the CNs.

Value Systems Alignment Analysis in Collaborative Networked Organizations Management

“…This concept is further developed in [28] where "the effects of the behavioral (soft) competencies on the performance of the functional (hard) competencies" is discussed in order to compute the competency levels in face of the requirements of the business opportunities. More recently, Andres and Poler [29] published some achievements related to the importance of the business strategies alignment for the success of CNOs.…”

A Decision-Support Tool to Deal with the Strategies Alignment Process in Collaborative Networks

“…Amongst all strategies formulated by each enterprise belonging to a CN, which strategies should be selected for achieving high levels of alignment? The strategies alignment process involves modelling the impacts that such strategies, once activated, have on the objectives [2]. The heterogeneity and autonomy that characterises the CN enterprises and the multiplicity of the information exchanges related with the formulated strategies and the defined objectives, requires new approaches to cope with the complexity of the process.…”

“…Therefore, a holistic approach that allows modelling the influences that all strategies formulated by all partners have on the wide diversity of defined objectives is needed. In order to fill this gap, an integrated approach to holistically model the strategies alignment process has been previously proposed [2] [11] [12]. The strategies alignment model (SAM) [11] deals with the strategies and objectives regardless of their nature and type, considering a CN context.…”

Decentralised Replenishment-Production Planning Optimisation Using Negotiation Rules in a Collaborative Network

“…The collaborative network management has associated a higher degree of complexity; due to heterogeneous and autonomous partners take part in [5]. This involves that each collaborative partner defines different goal-based objectives [1], making attractive the proposal of approaches devoted to integrate all the nodes through the network planning. Considering the importance of collaboratively perform the planning process, among the enterprises of the same network, in terms of improving the CN relationships, this paper proposes a decentralised approach to support enterprises on the operational planning, from a collaborative perspective.…”

“…Increasing competitive changes in the global market, combined with rapid advances in information technology have made that collaborative network planning is at the edge of the business practices of most of collaborative partners. Given the complexity of operations and the often-conflicting objectives [1] of the enterprises belonging to a collaborative network (CN), such as, purchasing, , manufacturing, distribution and sales, it is essential to develop a unified and rigorous approaches to increase commitments and reduce discrepancies among the network partners. The effective integration of these different features is the main objective of the collaborative network planning [2].…”