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These are all current parlance but does the rhetoric match the reality? Sir Stuart Hampson, Chairman of John Lewis, sees the partnership as the source of competitive advantage. Others will see it as diversionary activity. The crucial test is in a business relationship - where do you want to put your energy? In arm twisting, short term adversarial approaches which leave opponents exhausted ? Or in partnerships that can create sustainable win wins and long term competitiveness? The Morton Partnership can show successful experience over 15 years of creating partnership arrangements that have stood the test of time in the spheres of employee relations, supply chain relationships and business development. We offer a methodology that helps the participants re-evaluate roles and takes all parties through a process which produces an agenda for sustainability by involving the relevant stakeholders. Karl Marx was right: labour does own capital, although not quite in the sense that he had imagined, with 70% of assets existing in the brains of people, including those of suppliers and customers. What is different about that conclusion today is our understanding that knowledge makes the difference. We've always had brilliant people doing brilliant things but in their specialist, "silo" mentality areas. Today the challenge for corporate sustainability is to get the knowledge in the brains of people shared across corporate boundaries. The Morton Partnership can offer solutions in this area based on having been there and done it! Specific experience relates to the setting up of Anglian Water's University of Water and the establishment of the knowledge sharing Transformation Project at Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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