by Bruce | February 27, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
My professional friend Rob Cross is a professor of management at the University of Virginia and, I think it’s safe to say, the leader in applying "social network analysis" (SNA) to business and professional organizations. SNA is nothing...
by Bruce | February 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
What will the structure of the global legal marketplace look like in, say, 2015? Before you exclaim either, "Who on earth knows?" or "What a silly thing to speculate about!," permit me to draw your attention to the duel, or at least face-off,...
by Bruce | February 13, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
When you see—or when I see, at any rate—sustained outperformance by a firm over a five-year span, I cannot help but ask myself: "How did they do that?" What follows has a dusting of speculation at the end, but I think it’s a path worth...
by Bruce | February 8, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Here’s a thought experiment: If you believe the cover story in the current issue of Business Week, the torrent of numbers coming out of the federal government measuring, sizing, and describing nearly every facet of the US economy are in many ways...
by Bruce | January 23, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Have no fear that "Adam Smith, Esq." is going to morph into a boot-licking, reverential conduit for re-distributing the year-end natterings of those ink-stained scribes from the MSM and the high-profile consultancies hoping to goose their annual bonus by...
by Bruce | January 22, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
As I’ve written before, "Business Intelligence" is here to stay. (And if that’s an unfamiliar or unclear term to you, please refer to the earlier post on this, which serves to introduce the field; and no apologies necessary, as the...
