Beyond knowledge management to better management
A Notice to Lexis and Westlaw: You would be well-advised to read this post since it proposes a better model for your products. (As for the royalty checks you'll owe me, let's talk...) For a few brief months early in my legal career, I was a litigation associate. As such, the main focus of my... Continue Reading →
If there is one theme that emerges from my many conversations with lawyers, it is their weariness with the seeming inability of legal IT vendors to produce applications that work in an intuitive, simple and effective way. In fact, lawyers often seem resigned to struggling constantly with software that forces them to adapt to it,... Continue Reading →
It's Valentine's Day. Do you remember the pleasure of a new love -- the excitement, the giddiness, the joy? So tell me, when was the last time you felt that way about your office technology? To be fair, it's rare to have an elevated pulse when thinking about over-burdened workhorses, but that's a shame. Do... Continue Reading →
What's the future of the legal profession? And what role do technology and knowledge management play in the development of that future? These are the questions I've been pondering since I heard that Stephen P. Younger (President of the New York State Bar Association) had formed a Task Force to seize "an historic opportunity to... Continue Reading →
We marked a major milestone in the life of our family by having dinner at an extraordinary restaurant this evening. The restaurant was Blue Hill at Stone Barns. This restaurant is exceptional in many ways: it's located in Pocantico Hills, in the beautifully renovated old barns of the Rockefeller estate outside New York City; it... Continue Reading →
Yesterday's announcement about the end of Google Wave saddened me. I was one of the lucky ones who had access to the beta site early last fall. To be honest, it was great to be part of the reconnaissance group. A lot of the initial conversation was pretty basic, along the lines of "Does anyone... Continue Reading →
One of the banes of modern existence is the need to create (and remember) passwords for all the computer programs we use. Because this poses a significant challenge, many folks just use one or two basic passwords. While simplicity is often a virtue in life, this is one area where it pays to be complicated.... Continue Reading →
What's going on with SharePoint? Klint Finley, writing for ReadWriteWeb, reports what seem to be some counter-intuitive survey results: A survey by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) found that although Microsoft SharePoint is being rapidly adopted by the enterprise, at least half of the enterprises polled that are implementing the platform don't have... Continue Reading →
As Enterprise 2.0 tools gain acceptance within organizations around the world, we are finding new ways to unearth and connect useful information. For some organizations, a key to this has been to create mash-ups between existing collections of data. The magic of mash-ups is quite wonderful -- by joining two known things you can create... Continue Reading →
It may the closest thing to mind reading we've seen yet. Starting today, Loopt is offering a new service called Pulse, which claims to be able to provide you with an extraordinary array of helpful information as you move around town: Pulse produces a personalized and ever-changing list of recommendations based on where you are,... Continue Reading →
Above and Beyond KM 