Interesting Q&A on Portals
Last June, my client ii3, inc. hosted a Webinar on Information and Knowledge Portals. Panelists included Jamie Booth, CIO of Hunton & Williams and Margaret Grottenthaler, a partner at Stikeman Elliott who spearheads KM at the firm. An interesting written Q&A follow-up is available. In...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Managing Relationship Capital
Fellow blogster Jerry Lawson and I recently exchanged e-mail messages about bloggers asking for links. That led to an interesting discussion about relationship management generally. Our shared observation is that, among other challenges of law firm CRM (customer relationship management) is that lawyers have limited...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Standardizing Extranets?
I have previously written that if law firm extranets succeed, they will sow the seeds of their own destruction. Clients will not want to use multiple systems; instead, a single interface to multiple outside counsel will be required. Along these lines, Charles Christian, in Legal...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Personal KM Update and Implications
On September 15th, both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon is taking at aim at Google with a new search tool called A9, which has some interesting KM features and bears watching. According to the articles, A9 is a “search...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Key Findings from the AmLaw Tech Survey
“Firms are making roof repairs rather than remodeling the kitchen.” So concludes the 9th AmLaw Tech survey of large law firm technology, published in the September 2004 issue of American Lawyer magazine. This survey is one of the best and most reliable for large law...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Technology is Not Enough
Consulting company McKinsey has found that information technology investment by itself has little effect on productivity. Management practices have a much bigger impact on productivity. When IT lifts productivity in the The McKinsey Quarterly (2004, #4; free registration may be required) reports that “a new...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Evolving Electronic Discovery Rules
The article Federal Courts Propose Rules for E-Discovery in the New Jersey Law Reporter provides an interesting update on potential changes in the rules of discovery, especially with respect to digital data and electronic evidence discovery. Readers who follow the e-discovery world know that the...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
3 min read
More on Incremental Change
My prior post suggested stepping back from the day-to-day change to examine fundamentals. Among other points, I suggested lawyers might not need notebooks. Fellow blogger Dennis Kennedy raises a good point about my comments. Responding to my statement that “some clear-thinking firms now understand that...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
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