Joe Kittel has worked in the field of strategic alliances for over 35 years. For over 17 years, he did strategic alliance development at Hewlett-Packard. For the past 18 years, Joe has been focused on the practical application of spiritual (relationship-deepening) principles to help alliance managers transform their relationships to increase their value-creating effectiveness.http://spibr.org/Joe's_alliance_work.jpg In 1989, Joe established his first strategic alliance – a multi-year, co-resident and collaborative-R&D relationship that provided advanced object-oriented technology into HP's C++ SoftBench product (a software development tool) and it enabled US West Communications (a major telecommunications company) to successfully migrate their massive Billing and Customer Care Systems from Cobol to C++ with a 10x improvement in software quality.In 1997, he helped establish Hewlett-Packard’s corporate-level strategic alliance with Microsoft, leading company-wide initiatives and negotiations in some of the most strategically contentious areas (e.g., UNIX/NT interoperability, object technology, and cryptography). In that same year, Joe was a pre-founding member of the Board of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), assisting in its early definition.http://www.spibr.org/970319_HP_Microsoft_corp_alliance_simplified_enterprise_computing.pdfAt the conclusion of his career at HP, in 2005, Joe established the first strategic alliance between HP’s printing business and SAP with a deal valued in excess of $200M and an alliance that annually leverages over $1B in HP products and services.http://spibr.org/HP-SAP_case_study_award_and_press.jpgIn 2007, Joe established the first and only consultancy in the world focused solely on the fundamental transformation of strategic alliance managers and their alliances, SPiBR.org LLC.In 2012 he published the book Spiritual Principles in Strategic Alliances: transform status quo mediocrity into greatness. The book has been endorsed by world-leaders in strategic alliancing and conscious capitalism, and selected as a Best Practice by the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals.http://www.spibr.org/ASAP_Best_Practices_Bulletin_July_2009.pdfAt the University of Utah, Joe graduated magna cum laude in Electrical Engineering, with a focus on quantum electronics (semiconductor physics and VLSI design). He applies a methodical engineering approach to strategic alliances, spirituality and relationships. He seeks out and uses fundamental principles.http://www.spibr.org/Joe_Kittel_resume.pdf