I would like your advice on how to assess potential inter-business or inter-institutional relationships for any sort of industry.
By relationships, I mean any connection between two businesses. For example, how can you tell a local independent grocer that his business would benefit from initiating a relationship with Business X. Business X could be a supplier, another neighborhood grocer looking for a partnership (why?), a local website that specializes in promoting local grocers, etc.
In other words, how does one identify a business's potential for making mutually beneficial connections?
If you were to build a one-size-fits-all template to assess this type of potential for any sort of business in order to facilitate these connections, what variables would you look at - size, location, etc.?
I have been thinking about these questions for a while now, but hit a wall recently. I thought I would pose this to some other minds.
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