In-person ideation is not always better than virtual ideation. There are other factors that matter as much, if not more, than location.
Slow Down Little Grasshopper
Keynote: The Future of Work Means Dealing with Disruption
Wilen discusses the key forces impacting the future of work, industries, leadership styles, skills, and education with a focus on how to remain relevant in an increasingly complex digital world.
From Skunkworks to Subsidiary: how to make innovation happen at your firm
How is innovation delivered in your firm? This panel takes us on a four stage journey from (1) the solo innovator working skunkworks-style, to (2) the implementation of firm-endorsed innovation incentives, to (3) the funded innovation function and program, and finally to (4) the establishment of a separate innovation/legal tech entity. In addition to describing... Continue Reading →
Let 2021 Be A Year of Mistakes
We are finally at the end of a consequential year that few of us will forget soon. Now what should we do? Standing on the precipice of a new year, it is easy to fall back on the usual greeting card good wishes: Out with the old, in with the new: may you be happy... Continue Reading →
Keynote: The Role of Knowledge and Information in Crisis Management #KMWorld
Speaker: Dave Snowden, Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge Session Description: Crisis management has moved from planning to a day-to-day reality. However organizations are ill equipped to manage a situation where we are dealing with unknown unknowables or have to deal with multiple Black Elephants (something that changes everything!) competing for resources and attention. What is... Continue Reading →
Where is Your Failure Report?
If your organization is populated by perfect people with a perfect track record, feel free to ignore this post. For the rest of you, I'd urge you to spend a little time with Engineers Without Borders Canada. This nonprofit was founded in 2000 by two young engineers who had "a dream of an organization that... Continue Reading →
Diffusion of Innovation: How Change Occurs
The speaker is Professor Bill Henderson is at the Indiana University School of Law. [These are my notes from a private global meeting of large law firm knowledge management personnel.] The Diffusion of Innovation field was invented by Everett Rogers. He wrote his first book in 1962, examining why farmers were not adopting the latest... Continue Reading →
What Technologists Can Teach Lawyers About Innovation
Many law firms find themselves in sobering circumstances. They are facing mounting economic pressures, more discerning clients, and a deep-seated reluctance to change a way of working that has not kept pace with science or technology. Something has to change. Unfortunately, change means disrupting all that is known and comfortable. It's no wonder that people... Continue Reading →
Disrupt Yourself
httpv://youtu.be/FPFMcCgWCdg We sometimes joke in our family that the moment you think you have everything organized and on an even keel -- watch out! Something is bound to occur suddenly to upset that equilibrium: a key member of your team decides to relocate to be closer to family a strategic vendor goes out of business... Continue Reading →
It’s Time for a Law Firm Hackathon
In the world of law firm blogging there is Bruce MacEwen...and then there are the rest of us. Writing as Adam Smith Esq., Bruce has just completed an extraordinary series of posts entitled "Growth is Dead." In his final installment, The S-Curve, Bruce says that if law firms wish to survive the current economic headwinds,... Continue Reading →
Above and Beyond KM 