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ABOUT American Technology Alliances When people and organizations work resourcefully together great things happen. We know because remarkable energy, synergy, creativity, and productivity are hallmarks of the collaborative relationships we have helped our clients build.
Progress through partnership. AmTech has been helping leaders and teams to achieve effective joint endeavors since 1989. AmTech offers a suite of services focused on helping clients collaborate by providing training and guidance on best practices and hands-on facilitation that drive business results. AmTech's decade and a half of experience has built deep expertise in cultivating collaboration between divisions of an organization, between two or many organizations, and between the government, industry, and academic/nonprofit sectors. In addition, AmTech has significant expertise in web-based collaboration tools and group knowledge sharing practices, including advising clients on tool capabilities, developing customized software solutions, and facilitating group information management practices. Collaboration is increasingly a critical enabler to meeting business and program objectives, but many leaders and teams still fly blind, unaware that collaboration success is an engineered outcome. AmTech translates the theory found in management books into actual practice, acting as guide and catalyst for leaders, teams, and partners. Numerous awards and honors have been conferred on AmTech, and the ventures it has guided, because the collaborations resulted in unusual productivity and team compatibility. AmTech has guided, negotiated and managed numerous partnerships worth hundreds of millions of dollars. It has enabled corporate competitors to work together. It has arranged for government and industry to work cooperatively. It has driven change initiatives within and across organizations, devised legal and organizational solutions to balance partner interests, and helped partners organize and communicate their knowledge.
A unique resource. Many clients say AmTech is the glue that holds their team together. Other clients say AmTech is the force that gives their team energy and sustains momentum. AmTech's approach is about bringing value-added guidance, hands-on facilitation or other support services as required to meet the evolving needs of collaborations. AmTech is unique in offering diverse capabilities in a fully integrated manner tailored to meet the special needs of each collaborative activity. Unlike traditional consultants who offer piecemeal advice and then disappear, AmTech is known for bringing unparalleled knowledge of what really works from start to finish and exercising unusual skills of insight and influence with key collaboration stakeholders, from senior managers to staff. AmTech's experience is deep and broad, and its commitment to client success is uncompromising. AmTech's multidisciplinary team provides expertise in group process and decision-making, law, management & business, strategic communications, finance & accounting, library science & knowledge management, website development and mastering, and software development. AmTech formed in 1989 with backing from NASA. Its extensive contacts in aerospace have led its primary clients to be large aerospace companies and federal agencies engaged in R&D (NASA, DOD, FAA, DOE), but it has also worked on social change projects with the U.S. State Department and various nonprofit organizations, and on technology transfer and product introduction strategies with the State of California and small and emerging businesses. Many of its efforts have engaged universities. |