by Bruce | November 3, 2004 | About the Site, Articles, Technology strategy
Some readers have emailed that Internet Explorer does not seem willing to display some graphics on this site. (It also offsets the calendar archive, but that’s relatively minor.) I have two reactions: First of all, the site renders correctly...
by Bruce | November 3, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Strategy, Technology strategy
Electronic Data Discovery may, according to this piece, harbor a rich, hidden revenue and profit opportunity for firms—just bring the capability to perform EDD in-house. Would that it were so simple. My instincts to reject grafting this foreign body into a...
by Bruce | November 1, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Thanks to the good folks at Baker Robbins & Co., I was able to guest-blog the Knowledge Counsel Forum here in New York this past Thursday and Friday, October 28 and 29. Rather than act as a virtual transcriber of the mountain of information presented, I will...
by Bruce | October 25, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Elaborating on the immediately previous post, the curve on the graphic is…[drum-roll, please]—a demand curve, our Econ. 101 friend. (High $$$ price means little demand ["bet the company"], low price means high demand...
by Bruce | October 22, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Technology strategy
If "three anecdotes constitute a trend," as the possibly apocryphal credo of journalists has it, then I am here to announce a trend: Corporations are beginning to apply professional purchase-manager techniques and metrics to selecting and overseeing...
by Bruce | October 21, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy, Technology strategy
Inflamed election-year rhetoric aside, outsourcing has arrived. According to Forrester Research, just over 40,000 lawyer jobs will be sourced abroad by 2015 (about 8% of total projected lawyer employment). Financial services and IT shops recognized the...