by Bruce | December 28, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Technology strategy
You may not be familiar with the name Michael Schrage, but as an early founder of MIT’s path-breaking Media Lab, and as a gifted writer no matter the topic, he’s someone I read whenever I come across him. His latest piece is in the elastic and...
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 15, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
The Holy Grail of assembling the most potent and effective team for a client matter is, simply put, to have the right people in the right place at the right time. Wal-Mart (and other companies like Toyota) have achieved this with inventory and supplies; what...
by Bruce | November 12, 2004 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
A theme of this blog is that the "default" approach to issues in law firm management should be that much can be learned from the enormous literature on corporate management. In other words, barring unusual circumstances unique to the profession (which...