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The joint project with the competitor

Il progetto congiunto con il concorrente · Project Management · Beginner

The case

A large shared client has imposed a joint project on you and your main competitor: integrating your two systems, which the client uses side by side, within nine months. Neither of you could say no. Now you coordinate a project where the partner is the company you meet in every tender: their engineers ask questions that stray from integration into internal architecture, your team does not know how much to share and works with the brakes on, every delay is blamed on the other side in front of the client, and your sales director asks you to use the project to learn their weaknesses. The client, worth 20% to both, demands full collaboration and has put the project under its own committee. How do you make it work without giving away the company?

Un grande cliente comune ha imposto a te e al tuo principale concorrente un progetto congiunto: integrare i vostri due sistemi, che il cliente usa entrambi, entro nove mesi. Nessuno dei due poteva dire di no. Ora coordini un progetto in cui il partner è l'azienda che incontri in ogni gara: i suoi tecnici fanno domande che sconfinano dall'integrazione all'architettura interna, il tuo team non sa quanto condividere e lavora col freno tirato, ogni ritardo viene rinfacciato all'altro davanti al cliente, e il tuo commerciale ti chiede di usare il progetto per capire i loro punti deboli. Il cliente, che vale il 20% per entrambi, pretende collaborazione piena e ha messo il progetto sotto il suo comitato. Come lo fai funzionare senza regalare l'azienda?

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