by Bruce | May 26, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
A premise of our “Build Back Better” focus du jour (actually, du l’annee) is that we’ve already drastically changed many things about how we conventionally worked, so we can change more. McKinsey has also been thinking (and writing) about this...
by Bruce | May 18, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Technology strategy
We’ve written that it’s not quite true that we know nothing about “the other side” of this global pox, and currently holding the pole position among things we abruptly realized will look different is that as of, say, 10 weeks ago, we all were used to large-scale,...
by Bruce | March 2, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Technology strategy
You do have one, right? In just the past few days, we’ve heard a few firms volunteer that (a) clients are inquiring about their business continuity plans; (b) they’re dusting their plan off; (c.i.) they’re making sure they have one (or [c.ii.]...
by Bruce | November 13, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Ten years ago (five?) the role of “Chief Innovation Officer” was almost unheard-of. Now hardly a week goes by without a firm announcing the appointment of so-and-so to that role and title. But what exactly Is a “CINO” and where do (where...
by Bruce | May 31, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Leadership, Technology strategy
Eight years ago, Marc Andreessen wrote that “software is eating the world.” Notably, he wasn’t specific about what geographies it had already consumed and where it was going next. Today I’d like to suggest that whether this software feast is...
by Bruce | December 16, 2018 | Articles, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
AI in law is the new Innovation. The industry press can’t write enough about it, law firm leaders and GC’s have to be seen as in the vanguard, vendors (of course!) can’t tout it enough, and no one, it seems, can worry about what it means for their...
