by Bruce | October 31, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
I’ve writtten before about using blogs (and wikis and RSS) as knowledge management platforms in law firms, but for my Edge International presentation last week in London, I developed the following diagram which encapsulates my thinking on this: Three of a...
by Bruce | October 4, 2005 | Articles, Knowledge Management
The "Collected Intelligence" of the Blogosphere at work: "Kay, MacEwen, & Riskin." And see also. Can you imagine pulling this off in the off-line world? Me neither.
by Bruce | September 15, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Over at Exari, it’s a different Adam Smith. OK, I couldn’t resist, but this gives me an opportunity to briefly flag the importance of automating routine tasks which corporate counsel will increasingly resist paying for. Document assembly,...
by Bruce | August 29, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy
Given that thinking is what we theoretically do for a living, how good are you at it? Are you truly a "critical thinker?" Two years ago I would have reflexively answered that of course I was a critical thinker—I went to a college and law school...
by Bruce | August 22, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
It sounds counterintuitive, but is it possible that "knowledge workers" (that would be us) need more supervision than they’re getting, not less? So proposes Thomas Davenport, professor of IT and management at Babson College (in Wellesley, Mass.)...
by Bruce | August 2, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
Does this sound like you?: "While technical countermeasures do a passable job of blocking spam and phishing attacks from beyond the firewall, the sheer volume of E-mail from legitimate senders has companies looking for ways to communicate through the clutter....