by Bruce | September 9, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Does this sound like your firm? IT is managed as one massive homogeneous lump, where the executive committee’s key concern seems to be managing (read: reducing) costs. Now, reducing costs (or increasing productivity, or mitigating risk) may be fine...
by Bruce | August 24, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Technology strategy
My apologies! For the past 18 hours, "Adam Smith, Esq." has been offline due to a server failure at my hosting provider. I have had several email and one phone conversation with them and they understand that, while I’ve been very pleased...
by Bruce | August 21, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Eversheds has announced that it will be outsourcing almost 100 of its IT staff, "the bulk of its IT function," before the end of the year; those affected include the IT helpdesk, infrastructure teams, and IT training specialists. According to Legal...
by Bruce | August 13, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Law Technology News has a panel—although it actually seems to be a list of isolated commentators, not an interactive group discussion—talking about "how the emergence of business intelligence financial analysis software is going to affect the legal...
by Bruce | July 30, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
The latest issue of CIO Insight features a lead article called, "Most Companies Struggle to Measure the Value of IT," and headlines: "No right way has emerged to measure IT value, and the most common measures fare the worst." To hear them...
by Bruce | July 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Technology strategy
Rarely do the stars align to find David Maister, Richard Susskind, and Kieran Flatt (Legal IT) all writing about the same thing at the same time, but when it so happens the opportunity to try to synthesize their thinking is too rich to pass up. The common topic du...
