Alliance Best Practice Ltd (ABP) is a strategic alliance research and benchmarking consultancy based in the United Kingdom. Its partners are a group of independent alliance experts who each specialise in some aspect of strategic alliance formation or management. Its goal is to increase the knowledge and subsequent adoption of proven best practice principles in alliance optimisation. To support it in this endeavour it has researched strategic alliances deeply and maintains an extensive database of observations of alliances in action gained from many leading edge partnering organisations. This database currently contains over 200,000 entries. We welcome contributions from anyone who would like to submit research for consideration into the database or from organisations who would like to be benchmarked. Please direct all enquiries in the first instance to info@alliancebestpractice.com if you would like further insights from the database please visit our website at www.alliancebestpractice.com