"Around nine in ten UK senior executives consulted see collaborative partnership as being key to their organisation's success now and in the future." (Ipsos MORI survey: Making Partnerships Work 2007)
By 2004, the top 1,000 US companies predict 30% of their revenues to be generated from alliances; Europeans estimated over 40% (Booz Allen & Hamilton, 2000).
Alliances are expected to account for 16 to 25% of median company value by 2005 (Accenture, Dispelling the Myths of Alliances, October 1999).
Alliance activity in 1999 accounted for an average of 26% of Fortune 500 revenues (Accenture, Global Alliance Survey, 1999).
Public sector IT and business process outsourcing will grow by 78% over the four year period 2003-2007. (ICT and business process outsourcing in the UK public sector to 2006/07, Kable, 2005)
PFI investment has delivered over 600 operational new public facilities, including 34 hospitals and over 200 new and refurbished schools. (PFI: Meeting the Investment Challenges, HM Treasury, 2003)
The UK Prime Minister and Chancellor call for "collaboration by default" and state that "best practice demonstrates that moving to a Shared Services model can generate significant savings...all departments will be expected to develop plans to realise these benefits". (July 2006 CSR07 Interim Report)
Industry research suggests that future market success in ICT will be powered by company partnering. A recent report suggested that two thirds of all software revenue worldwide is generated or influenced by partnerships. This figure is expected to rise to 70% before 2010. (Queensland Government ICT Website, 2007)
77% of tech companies are involved in Alliances - 92% say Alliances are important to present & future growth "63% rating them critically or very important; these companies expect 43% greater revenue growth than their non-aligned counterparts; over the past 5 years businesses involved in Alliances have grown 68% faster. (PwC "Technology Barometer", 2001).
In just five years (to 2003), partnership marketing has grown from virtually zero to account for nearly 14% of the total marketing spend by the UK's top 2000 companies, overtaking nearly all other forms of mass communication. And this upward trend is predicted to continue across all sectors over the next two years. (Partnership Marketing, 2004).
