by Bruce | December 13, 2004 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
The estimable Ron Friedman, who’s been covering legal technology since 1989, has done a nice recap of the past 25 years of legal technology for The American Lawyer. Two messages here: No matter how much you may bitch and moan at technology today,...
by Bruce | December 2, 2004 | About the Site, Articles, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
The always-inspiring Joy London of "excited utterances" has penned a Blogging 101 article for Legal IT. Although much of what Joy has to say is targeted at what might charitably be described as the extreme novitiates in the audience (what a blog is,...
by Bruce | November 26, 2004 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Technology strategy
InfoWorld’s cover story is "The Top 20 IT Mistakes," and it’s a rogues’ gallery indeed. Amusingly, many are the converse of another: For example, "botching your outsourcing strategy" vs. "offshoring with blinders...
by Bruce | November 23, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Strategy, Technology strategy
What enterprise software market is growing 15%/year and is expected, if anything, to accelerate in the next few years? If you answered, "Sarbox compliance app’s," guess again: They grew far more than 15% in the last couple of years but...
by Bruce | November 21, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Marketing, Technology strategy
Is CRM [Customer Relationship Management software] a bridge too far for a firm? This question is probably a tar pit from which one cannot emerge unsullied with a single, unitary correct answer, but as both the power of CRM applications and the competitiveness of...
by Bruce | November 17, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
A trend emerging, I believe, from the competitive landscape is that the AmLaw 100 are "pulling away," competitively, from the AmLaw 101-200. So when a star among the "second 100," like Boies-Schiller, misses a calendar deadline that goes all...
