One Barrier to Innovation
Getting customers to drive innovation is a common theme these days. Therein may lay one barrier to legal market innovation. Customer-Controlled Innovation by Patrica Seybold in Optimize Magazine (Feb 07) is a good overview of how innovative companies collaborate with customers to transform their product...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Wither Online Legal Auctions?
Making lawyers more efficient means clients need to be tougher. I was therefore surprised to see one typically tough customer scale back on a recent innovation. The headline in LegalWeek.com (2/15/07) says it all: GE to ditch e-tendering to ‘deepen relationships’ in Euro panel review....
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Perspective on Adopting New Technology
Change is hard. To wit, many lawyers have trouble adapting new technology. A very humorous video provides an enlightening perspective on change management. Ernie the Attorney pointed to this hilarious video at YouTube. A must see for anyone who’s ever had to explain technology to...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Making Information Actionable
Last week I saw an interesting illustration of one way to make sense of ever-growing data volumes. Until the Web matured, just finding data was hugely time-consuming. Today, finding is easy; instead, we drown in Web and enterprise data. The challenge now is to distill...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
Productivity Tools for 2007 – Part 1
I’ve recently found 3 new tools to improve my personal productivity. Today I discuss a cell phone with high speed net access. Future posts will cover new back-up software and a VOIP phone. Large law firms have different options but some readers may find info...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
BigLaw CIOs – Know What Your Boss Thinks About
It’s always good to know what your boss is thinking. Now, BigLaw CIOs can. Law Firm Leaders Have Mergers on the Mind in LawFirmInc. (2/12/07) reports on the magazine’s first-ever survey of large law firm COOs. The survey has a very respectable 42% response from...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
E-Discovery and Records Management Lessons
The legal press buzzes with news about a discrimination law suit between an associate and his BigLaw employer. A development today – destruction of a hard disk drive – offers lessons on both e-discovery and records management. Destroyed Hard Drive Becomes Focus of Hearing in...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Hot KM Topics – Part I (Survey Results)
What’s hot in knowledge management? What are some unfulfilled KM desires? In 2003, a group of NYC law firm KM professionals assembled a list of 20 useful KM resources and ranked them in importance. The top 5 were: 1. Precedents 2. Forms ...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
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