by Bruce | June 24, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
I previously wrote on the notion of knowledge-focused enterprises (make that: law firms) using internal, behind-the-firewall blogs as tools for "doing" Knowledge Management. For example, if your firm has one or two individuals expert in...
by Bruce | June 22, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Are we entering the ‘Net’s first golden age? Wait a minute, you’re protesting, the first golden age in Internet Years was the dot-com bubble, no? I actually think not. The dot-com bubble (in which I had a role on-stage in the chorus,...
by Bruce | June 16, 2005 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
The universal, chronic, and incurable complaint of CIO’s? That they can’t get management "buy-in" for their IT initiatives. The syndrome is as follows: The CIO/CTO has a great idea for a new way to support a business...
by Bruce | June 14, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
"It’s not what you know, it’s who you know?" Agree or disagree, but there’s no doubt a key capability of a law firm’s KM initiative—assuming you actually want your attorneys to use it—is some capability for finding...
by Bruce | June 12, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Just why is that "doing" Knowledge Management at law firms seems so hard? Is KM itself simply an ineffable concept, meaning that virtually no two people agree on what it means? (And that, when they then try to go about it, the results are what...
by Bruce | June 9, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Now that pretty much everyone has tossed in their 2 cents on Thomas Friedman’s new book, "The Earth is Flat," to the point where a few people are saying enough is enough, I’d like to try to introduce a measured dose of calm and clarity about...
