Reading Time: 3 minutes When you select and engage with an international partner for the execution of your projects, whether internal or external, what discussions do you have regarding strategic alignment of your goals, desires and organisational requirements? If you don’t have such discussions, have you considered, or even experienced first hand, the impact of any misalignment on the delivery of your project? Even well planned and structured projects can resemble herding cats, so the more planning that is done ahead of time the better the likely outcomes.