by Bruce | October 27, 2004 | Articles, Knowledge Management
Reminder: I’ll be blogger-in-residence covering the Knowledge Counsel Forum here in New York this Thursday and Friday, so don’t expect any posts during the day—but expect one lengthy one at the end of each day. I look forward to seeing old...
by Bruce | October 27, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
An interlude, and a paean to Movable Type, on which this blog is supported. Last night, with no small amount of trepidation, I upgraded the Movable Type platform I’m running from 3.0 to 3.12—sounds like a small thing, right? That would be, in...
by Bruce | October 26, 2004 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Strategy
Just in over the email transom is the following prognostication about the general health of law firms courtesy of Hildebrandt International: In our annual report for 2004, we forecasted a strong year for the legal profession. As we enter the fourth quarter, we...
by Bruce | October 26, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
I haven’t incorporated supply/demand curves into the blog before simply because they didn’t seem highly germane to any particular past posting. But this time they did. I realize I perhaps should have done so with a caveat, so belatedly here it is: My goal...
by Bruce | October 25, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Elaborating on the immediately previous post, the curve on the graphic is…[drum-roll, please]—a demand curve, our Econ. 101 friend. (High $$$ price means little demand ["bet the company"], low price means high demand...
by Bruce | October 22, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Technology strategy
If "three anecdotes constitute a trend," as the possibly apocryphal credo of journalists has it, then I am here to announce a trend: Corporations are beginning to apply professional purchase-manager techniques and metrics to selecting and overseeing...
