by Bruce | July 3, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The Financial Times has a special report on "Innovative Lawyers 2006," which I commend to you essentially in its entirety. It’s thoroughly researched, involving soliciting submissions about "innovation" from the largest 200 firms in the...
by Bruce | May 19, 2006 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
I’m pleased to report that I’ll be attending Interwoven’s annual "Legal IT Leadership Summit" this coming Monday through Thursday, May 22—25, at the Ritz Carlton/Bachelor Gulch, as Interwoven’s guest, which is extremely gracious...
by Bruce | May 10, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
In the world of technology, we’ve had the IBM mainframe era, the Microsoft PC era, and now we have…the Google web era? I’m not being facetious; well, CIO magazine is not being facetious, anyway, when it features this as its cover story. Add in...
by Bruce | April 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
In the classic "The Innovator’s Dilemma," Clayton Christensen analyzed how companies at the top of their game, with brilliant and successful products, and focused on their core clients, could be undercut and eventually dethroned by small, pesky...
by Bruce | April 18, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
I’ve written before about the economic implications of living in a "tacit" industry (as opposed to a "transactional" or a "transformational" one—McKinsey’s coinage), but there’s more to say. A brief review of the...
by Bruce | April 14, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Technology strategy
I haven’t written about IT lately, but do not infer that I doubt or gainsay its bedrock role in our lives and work; it is as essential as air and sunlight. But since "Adam Smith, Esq." is not a tech-centric site (there are many amply...