When does your firm’s culture trump potential innovations you want to put in front of them?
Idea came from a quote in Craig Roth’s Knowledge Forward post, Technology After Culture? Not in a Million Years.
So basic technology evolved before the basic social construct – the family? No wonder I still encounter people spending
If I were to say the phrase “Temporal Analytics Engine” to you, would you think I was quoting something off of Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well, it would turn out that (this time at least) you would be wrong. A temporal analytics engine (TAE) is actually a method of searching documents that discuss related
The Elephant Series Brainstorming over beer – we came up with a new blog concept and we’re calling it The Elephant. The concept is tackling a topic from multiple points of view. On the first pass, these POVs will come from our stable of bloggers. But then the real fun will come engaging others POVs
My good friend, Mark Gediman told me many times that he designs his competitive intelligence (CI) reports like a children’s book. A big picture… and a little bit of text. It seems that attorneys have about the attention span of a child when it comes to reading CI reports, so this makes perfect sense to
[Note: Another brilliant Guest Post from our unofficial 4th Geek, Laura Walters] LinkedIn has become the most popular of the professionally focused social media sites, and therefore a goldmine for various competitive intelligence tidbits, sometimes disclosed inadvertently. What I particularly love about LinkedIn is the web you begin to detect between contacts and their
I got the idea for this multi-part post because Melissa Sachs has taken on the project of trying to find as many people as she can that work in AmLaw law firms that have Twitter accounts (#AMLAWTweeple). It’s a great work in progress, and you should go check out the list (and contribute
Since the first day I walked into a large law firm, I have been amazed at the vast amount of information that is compiled within the four walls of each of these firms. Even more so, I’m am amazed at the normalization of the data that is compiled. Each office has a specific designation number;
We here at the Geeklawblog discuss a lot on the topics of Knowledge Management, Marketing, Research and Competitive Intelligence. On the surface, these ideas tend to mean the “repackaging of existing data into usable information for the benefit of those in our firm.” In other words, we attempt to create a way to make our
