by Bruce | May 26, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Few challenges within sophisticated and far-flung law firms seem as difficult to get right as Knowledge Management, and I’ve recently been exploring some theories as to why this is so. After all, lawyers of all people should excel at KM—information...
by Bruce | May 23, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
CIO Insight often is a good read because, for my money, they provide the clearest and most convincing links between "hey, that’s cool!" technology and the delivery of hardheaded on-the-ground value to management. Well, they’ve done it...
by Bruce | May 23, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Professor Carley, as well as a frequent correspondent who I will identify only as the director of KM at an AmLaw 100 firm, have come through. First, Professor Carley provided a working paper on the Enron email database, and told me that under the auspices of her...
by Bruce | May 21, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy
Jim McGee, labeled by Buzz Bruggeman as "the smartest guy in America about Knowledge Management," not to mention a fellow Princetonian who I hope to see at Reunions at the end of this week, has a pithy new article up at the ESJ site reminding us that what...
by Bruce | May 20, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Marketing, Strategy
Yesterday I met Bruce Marcus, at a Starbucks outside Columbia University’s main gates, a very convenient walk from home for me. Venus even came along. Bruce Marcus was most recently co-author of "Client at the Core," described on the leaf...
by Bruce | May 19, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
Across the pond, we’re about to see an actual experiment that heretofore could only have been a thought experiment: Thanks to the "Clementi Commission," non-lawyer third parties will now be able to invest in law firms—most dramatically, law...