• To develop a body of expert knowledge, platforms, processes, and tools which will enable members to address important challenges and solve real problems more effectively.
• To begin to focus on the major business and public policy issues which frame best alliance practices in specific “vertical” domains, beginning with biofuels, the strategic target of ASAP’s International Conference in Baltimore (May 2008).
• To identify, document, and develop best international alliance practices in this and other vertical domains.
• To provide a congenial forum for colleagues who share these interests to meet, identify essential resources, enjoy each other’s company, and develop business together.

• By specific field of clean technology or green energy. For example, biofuels, solar, wind, distributed storage, hydrogen, and so forth. As ASAP has launched a major initiative in biofuels with its scheduled international conference on biofuels alliances in Baltimore in May 2008, we will necessarily be devoting significant time and attention on biofuels.
• By type of alliance—R&D, supply chain, channel, and so forth.
• Around specific areas of member interest. The following are examples of interest already expressed by some members: channel alliances, alliance advocacy, negotiated rule making, state and local governments, CO2 transformation, innovation, global energy poverty, financing, and emerging trade and regulatory incentives and barriers to innovation.
• By international best practices. One way of organizing best practices is under the following six (6) headings: alliance negotiation, structuring, management, innovation (a part of alliance management, but arguably so important it deserves its own separate category), metrics, and dispute settlement/value creation (by strategic alliance mediation and facilitation).

• Sixty (60) leading search engines— This may be the most comprehensive resource available anywhere in the world today, covering all the major business scientific, and technical information on the Internet relating to clean tech and green energy. Please click (  ) to register at the site. To expedite your easy use of this resource we have prepared a Short Tour of the site, http://www.energyvoyager.com/intelligence.html and a detailed Help link which is copied below. We will also hold a special one hour web cast to provide members with practical training on how to make best use of the resource. Finally, we will create a special thread in the Discussion Board so that members can share tips on what they discover from using the tools. (Example: Yesterday I found a cornucopia of links simply by typing in ‘strategic alliance green innovation “Best Practices”’) There is some craft in knowing how to conduct these searches. We will organize a special web cast to review the use of these tools. 
• Trend Tracking— This tool enables users to track important patterns and trends. We are currently refining these tools in order to extrapolate trends and patterns.
• Geo-Spatial New feeds—Key information and news is presented geospatially which enhances user understanding and appreciation of the content.
• Web 2.0 Collaborative Platform—Each member will have his or her own home page, be able to save and share key links or blogs, and publish RSS feeds to the Community.
• The Art of Adaptive Action™. Many people around the world today are deeply concerned about climate change, global warming, and want to do something. Yet, what actions will have greatest leverage, and what are the principles of wise decision making that can guide their actions? To address this concern we have developed a special program, The Art of Adaptive Action, to address this practical gap in the global conversation around energy. We will create a Special Forum on Adaptive Strategy and Adaptive Action for members who are interested in this subject. http://www.energyvoyager.com/intelligence.html 
• Discussion Board—The discussion around core subjects can develop on the Council Bulletin Board. We will create within the Discussion Board a special Negotiator’s Dojo for participants who have listened to the Art of Adaptive Action Expert Knowledge Module and wish to practice and refine their skills. http://www.energyvoyager.com/intelligence.html 
• Business Case—We have also prepared an initial simulation involving the “Shanghai Green Dragon Innovation Park,” which closely tracks a real opportunity. This case will enable members quickly to get up to speed in current developments in clean tech and green energy in China, and to help design an International League of Green Innovation “Hubs” including green innovation parks and green cities around the world. This will be an open source initiative. Members are encouraged to contribute to the creation of the case. By December 31, 2007 we will post Confidential Instructions to each participant in the simulation. Negotiators can contribute their ideas on the Discussion Board. There will be periodic Alerts to participants in the simulation on “real” developments in the development of the International League. See: attachment on the Simulation. 
• Clean Tech/Green Energy Adaptive Alliance WIKI—The most developed ideas from the Discussion Board will be consolidated in a special WIKI which will be available to all members.

• EPRI Open Source Expedition to Accelerate Innovations in Distributed Energy Storage; See below.
• Green India Consortium       

• Identification by the utilities of a clear set of desired applications and specifications. This voice of the market was deemed essential at the outset, and was an essential part of the innovation strategy, ie. to combine and optimize “market pull” and “technology push” forces and thereby compress the time-to-market of discoveries and inventions.
• Creation of a platform—a Distributed Storage Collaborative Business Intelligence Network—to keep track of global trends in the space and provide a Web 2.0 platform to support member exchange.

• Mission was powerful, along with clear breakthrough value proposition (Key words: public/private mission, “strategic technologies”)
• Key success factor is the Initiative (alliance) champions, especially in an online network, must continuously and vigorously prime the pump. Without this care and constant attention, like tending a garden, the embers of collaboration will flicker out. The medium for older people is still less congenial and in its nature remote, and therefore regular web casts, conference calls, alerts, in addition to the essential compelling content and of course a compelling collaborative rationale are all essential. (Key words: See the world as it is, pain, Agenda, Discovery Questions, nurturing, focus.)

• Become an ASAP member  (if you are an ASAP Non-member), and then Register in the Council (once you are an ASAP member)
• Send the areas of keenest interest to you to: jgresser@energyvoyager.com; kdoran@strategic-alliances.org );
• Provide your jugular questions where expert knowledge will be vitally important to you, your company, or community;
• Send in a brief profile of your professional background, company, and interests. In due course we will install special software to facilitate members making contact with each other

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