Elephant Tales

ILTA’s 2024 Catalyst Conference focused on leading change. Formal change management has been discussed for decades yet most organizational change initiatives fail. And those failures have serious consequences for elephants and humans alike (This is Part 2 of a series catalyzed by ILTA’s Catalyst Conference.)

Failing at Change

ILTA's 2024 Catalyst Conference focused on leading change. We live in a world of near-constant change yet most organizational change initiatives fail. Why aren't we better at this? (This is Part 1 of a series catalyzed by ILTA's Catalyst Conference.)

Law Firm IT Whiplash

The Mayo Clinic staff describe whiplash as, a neck injury that can occur during rear-end automobile collisions, when your head suddenly moves backward and then forward — similar to the motion of someone cracking a whip. These extreme motions push your neck muscles and ligaments beyond their normal range of motion. Whiplash is what I... Continue Reading →

Life After PowerPoint [#ILTA12]

Kudos to the International Legal Technology Association!  The organizers of the ILTA 2012 Conference are putting real effort into finding new ways of turning their already rich educational sessions into true interactive learning opportunities. That's a big change from the presentation mode of three or four experts (with PowerPoint deck) that has been the standard... Continue Reading →

Enterprise 2.0 at the State Department

It's wise to creep out of our law firm silos from time to time to see how people in other walks of life approach knowledge management. Each time I venture out I inevitably discover that some of the challenges facing law firm knowledge management personnel are shared by our colleagues in other industries. Better still,... Continue Reading →

Make KM Count in 2012

Your New Year's Eve celebration is a now a dim memory and, hopefully, you've fully recovered from the revelry. Now comes the hard part -- putting plans in place to make 2012 a year in which knowledge management really counts in your organization. This is not just about creating a list of interesting projects and... Continue Reading →

The State of Law Firm KM 2010

The Knowledge Management Peer Group of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) is once again sponsoring a survey to determine the current state of law firm knowledge management. Given the upheavals in the legal industry of the last few years, it will be interesting to see what if any changes emerge from the survey data.... Continue Reading →

Do Generational Differences Matter? (ILTA09)

Jason Ryan Dorsey has mastered the art of "edutainment." Over the course of a rollicking keynote address and subsequent 90-minute presentation he shook us out of our complacency about the impact of generational differences in the workplace. (A cautionary note: As I was tweeting his 90-minute session, several readers asked what data he had to... Continue Reading →

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