Sources of Large Law Firm Growth
“Growth – real growth – depends on innovation. Oh sure, a big acquisition can inflate a company’s top line, but it’s hardly fair to call this growth; agglomeration would be a better word.” So writes Gary Hamel and Gary Gets in the current issue (July-August...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
3 min read
Developments in Full Text Searching
Regular readers of my blog know that I have a long-standing interest in the potential of full-text search technology for both litigation support and knowledge management applications in large law firms. With the seeming explosion of new companies offering advanced full-text approaches, I have been...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
4 min read
Disintermediation Redux
Remember all the talk about “disintermediation” during the dot-com boom? It means that the Web allows producers to connect directly with consumers and eliminate intermediaries. It may be back as potential threat to legal publishers. In Law Professor’s Web Log is Jurists’ Must-Read, the Wall...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
KM Complexity
Most of us working on knowledge management say that KM is 80% culture and process and only 20% technology. That is true, but sometimes the technology can be a challenge. I was looking through some of my files and came across a grid I developed...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
1 min read
Is KM Individual or Collective
Jeff Beard, aka LawTech Guru, has an interesting post today about KM. In KM Thought of the Day he argues that KM should shift its focus to individual effort in place of institutional effort. I disagree. I agree with Jeff that doing institutional KM is...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
Wall Street Journal Reports on Blogs
Blogs Help You Cope With Data Overload — If You Manage Them in the Wall Street Journal (7/8/04, p. B1) Personal Technology column focuses on using a newsreader to aggregate content from multiple blogs. The columnist explains that to “juggle all those blogs” one should...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
1 min read
Legal Auctions Struggle
Online Auctioneers Struggle to Attract In-House Counsel in the July 2004 issue of Corporate Legal Times suggests that online auctions and match-making services such as Procuri and eLawForum for legal services have not gained much traction. “Beyond a handful of early adopters who have dabbled...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
1 min read
Tracking Tasks
A key element of personal productivity is tracking one’s tasks. I use Microsoft Outlook and it strikes me that doing so is harder than it should be. And from dealing with this apparent limitation, we may be able to draw a lesson about personal productivity...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
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