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Knowledge Management

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...
Management and Technology

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...
Extranets

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...
Best Practices

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...
Management and Technology

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...