by Bruce | January 16, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Have you asked your CIO lately whether he thinks IT at your firm is "aligned" with your business? Are you wondering what on earth I’m talking about? If you haven’t immersed yourself in IT management literature (I have), I need to explain that...
by Bruce | December 26, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
CIO Insight, in partnership with Baseline Magazine, is featuring a year-end review of nearly 230 case studies done over the past five years to distill out the "Top 10 Lessons for IT Project Success." Reading that piece in conjunction with "Top 10...
by Bruce | December 21, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
At the intersection of: technology globalization, and demographics we have, according to Robert Reich (Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and now Prof. of Public Policy at Berkeley), the challenge of "the economics of people" for the next few...
by Bruce | December 14, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Among the numerous obstacles to an effective and comprehensive Knowledge Management program are (a) lawyers’ reluctance—actually, make that absolute refusal—to spend 10 seconds in the active "care and feeding" of the KM system; and (b) the...
by Bruce | December 6, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
As the legal blogosphere goes from childhood to adolescence to (eventually) full-throated adulthood, I’ve enjoyed not just contributing my own small efforts to that process, but also being able to be an armchair observer of other developments having nothing...
by Bruce | December 2, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Periodically I’m asked whether the legal industry could steal a page from the playbook of other industries that it might resemble, either for inspiration and innovation, or for cautionary, clarifying lessons. If the question relates to what economists call...
