Services Overview

Services Overview

Inventures provides a comprehensive selection of a la carte alliance management services.

Inventures is an alliance management company offering a unique blend of strategic counsel, thought leadership, and operational support services, all backed by superb people, proven best practices, and best-in-class tools. Our services can be used to help you form, launch, manage, and grow your alliance. Depending on where you are within the lifecycle, we can tailor our services to fit your specific needs.

The following example illustrates how our services can be used across the alliance lifecycle.

Start Your Alliance

For companies interested in starting an alliance, we help define and clarify business objectives, desired results, scope of effort needed, and funding required to achieve success. We also provide expertise and support in structuring the alliance. By working closely with legal advisers and the founding sponsors, we can help build the organizational footprint. Our primary incubation services include:

Legal Consultation Support and advice to establish alliance entity
Structure Services Thought leadership to structure and fund alliance to achieve business objectives
Launch Your Alliance

Once the foundation is in place, we help ensure a successful launch by focusing on key message development, building a strong web-presence, new member engagement, and gaining industry visibility for your organization and its technology initiatives via media and analyst engagement. The primary service areas are:

Strategic Marketing and
Communications
Programs to create awareness and drive member recruitment
Event and Meeting Planning Event management to enable broad exposure at the industry level
Website Presence Experienced Web design and production services, including a public website, online information sharing, and secured access member only area
Manage Your Alliance

We provide a rich set of a la carte alliance management services, ranging from basic membership administration and financial services through extensive custom program development and support. These services scale depending on organizational need. The primary service areas are:

Executive Management Services Management leadership to help drive objectives and manage programs
Virtual Business Office Outsourcing of membership and financial management, including help-desk support
Strategic Marketing and
Communications
Programs to drive alliance growth and standards adoption
Event and Meeting Planning Event management to enable broad exposure at the industry level
Technology Alliance Programs Strategies to enable standards adoption, certification, and licensing programs
Collaboration Tools Workgroup collaboration through document sharing, action item tracking, event scheduling, and discussion groups
Website Presence Experienced Web design and production services, including a public website, online information sharing, and secured access member only area
Grow Your Alliance

From membership recruitment to standards adoption, Inventures knows how to execute strategies that will foster growth of your alliance. The primary services areas in this phase are:

Executive Management Services Management leadership to help drive objectives and manage programs
Strategic Marketing and
Communications
Programs to drive alliance growth and standards adoption
Event and Meeting Planning Event management to enable broad exposure at the industry level
Technology Alliance Programs Strategies to enable standards adoption, certification, and licensing programs
Collaboration Tools Workgroup collaboration through document sharing, action item tracking, event scheduling, and discussion groups
Website Presence Experienced Web design and production services, including a public website, online information sharing, and secured access member only area