Whatever the reason for implementing knowledge management (KM) in your organisation you must have a clear understanding of the many factors that will affect its success as a project.
Managing Partner's new Balanced Scorecards for Law Firms report provides a vital introduction for firms wanting to know more about how the balanced scorecard can improve their own firm's performance.
Ark Group's new report Being a Successful Knowledge Leader by Arthur Shelley is written specifically to help you identify and develop the most talented, inspiring and successful knowledge leaders within your organisation. Leaders who can create self sustaining programmes that become part of the way you work, delivering continuous improvements in your communication, profitability, creativity, innovation and ultimately organisational performance.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Law Firms is a step-by-step guide to devising and implementing an effective business continuity plan for your firm.
This invaluable new report is a step-by-step guide to ensuring partners and fee earners are fully equipped to deliver new business and maximise the value of existing clients.
This highly valuable report is written specifically to help you develop a business strategy that will not only sustain your law firm through tough economic times but make changes that will improve cost efficiency, productivity and client relationships.
Business Process Management has been written specifically to provide you with the necessary tools to develop and deploy a successful business process management programme for your firm.
The report aims to help you establish the root causes of existing cash management problems and set out a clear strategy that will not only reduce lock-up but enable you to seek out profit and business certainty in increasingly difficult times.
Coldrick on Care Home Fees is the most complete resource ever published on this subject. If you advise on this complex, challenging and ever changing area of the law, this 400 page publication is essential reading for you and your organisation.
‘Coldrick on Personal Injury Trusts’ has long been regarded as a fundamental text for law firms practicing in this area and extensive changes to the fourth edition make it more essential than ever.
Competitive Intelligence for Law Firms is written specifically to help you formalise your approach to CI in the legal sector. It examines in-depth how to gather valuable information and turn it into actionable intelligence in the legal environment while avoiding the legal and ethical pitfalls.
This essential new report uses specialist expertise and best-practice examples to guide you through developing and implementing a successful strategy for meeting regulatory requirements.
This report is an in-depth exploration of recent developments, best practices and the tools and tactics that are helping forward-thinking firms devise and manage successful strategies that maximise the effectiveness of their CSR activities and guide their future direction.
Ensuring that your company has access to all of the information it requires when it requires it, and that your systems correctly identify and action any information that must be either retained, stored, or disposed of, can also have huge efficiency and compliance implications.
Developing Strategic Client Relationships is a new report from Managing Partner that takes thinking on Client Relationship Management away from the IT consultancies to its true position as a crucial business development tool.
Effective financial management that can facilitate sustained performance and competitive edge in an overcrowded marketplace requires not only the appointment of a highly capable finance director, but broader changes in behaviour and working processes among a firm’s lawyers, changes that touch on ingrained traditions, such as the chargeable/non-chargeable hour…
Ark Group's new Freedom of Information in the Public Sector report clarifies the grey areas of legislation and compliance issues and will provide you with case studies, strategies and processes for reviewing and developing successful FOI management schemes.
Tt is clear that managing the quality of your information is a key enabler to achieving success in any number of other strategic or operational objectives. Objectives including compliance with Statutory regulations (Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II being just two), the need to defend and grow market share in your industry and the day-to-day challenges of running a business.
In-depth and practical research, providing comprehensive guidance on implementing a successful internal communications strategy, minimising the risk for your investment.
Ark Group's new independent report is specifically focused on the development and management of an effective intranet and intranet strategy. It has been written for those involved in any capacity with the contribution to, or management of an intranet and offers readers the information and support they need to be a successful intranet manager.
Intranet Usability and Re-design is a unique resource that will guide you step-by-step through the tools, techniques, strategies and processes you need to ensure your intranet continues to develop, grow and improve with your organisation.
Essential insights into the thinking and practice behind the most successful portal projects, through case studies from 12 leading organisations. essential insights into the thinking and practice behind the most successful portal projects, through case studies from 12 leading organisations.
Know-how in the Legal Profession examines the enormous challenges facing the legal profession and discusses the issues raised by those pioneering firms that have taken the lead in introducing knowledge-management practices...
The need for an effective risk management strategy has never been clearer. As Enron, Arthur Anderson and Merrill Lynch have fallen the professional and public worlds have woken to the real danger of unchecked risk.
Motivating and rewarding law firm professionals is a key topic for law firm management. The consequences and opportunity cost of not getting it right is increasingly a decider in meeting both business objectives around client service, and also the ability to manage profitability and margins.
With in-depth coverage of proven leadership styles and models, this report will provide you with the necessary tools to both implement an effective leadership development programme and measure it's success against your firms targets.
The Legal Services Act 2007 received royal assent on 30th October. The UK legal services market, already intensely competitive, is about to experience further competition from the business world. Effective outsourcing will be a crucial tool in coping with this change.
Capturing and Retaining Tacit Knowledge in Law Firms has been specifically researched and written to benefit law firm managers during this challenging time, equipping you with key tools and techniques to capture, manage and transfer knowledge and experience effectively within your firm.
Making Knowledge Work is a unique, uncompromising examination of the practical considerations that influence the success of knowledge management (KM) in a corporate context.
In this new technologically-enabled landscape, and in the face of budgetary and staff cuts library and information services are expected to deliver greater value internally and externally and collaborate with other business support functions like never before.
Managing your Relationship with External Counsel is a step-by-step guide to making a success of the complex relationships between corporate legal departments and the law firms they choose to provide outside counsel services.
In the changing legal landscape the necessity to merge is becoming increasingly commonplace. Mergers & Alliances provides you with the knowledge and expertise to approach this difficult process with clear understanding and confidence …
Good practice is essential when implementing and maintaining AML procedures. For the individual the law is clear: non-compliance can result in fines and prison sentences. For the firm, transgressions can cost reputation, cash flow and future business. For all involved there is a moral imperative to guard against criminal and terrorist operations. This new publication is an invaluable guide to ensure neither you nor your firm is threatened.
Combating money laundering and related terrorist financing is amongst the most significant risk management issues for law firms today, and for those partners or employees with compliance responsibility in particular. The considerable sanctions that can be meted out to firms or even individuals mean that this is an area of compliance you really cannot afford to get wrong.
All too often outsourcing projects spawn horror stories where insufficient attention to the contract results in severe financial losses, failure of the project and the risk of large-scale litigation.
Professionals, particularly those working within the legal sector, all find the need to negotiate on a daily basis with both internal and external clients, in a multitude of both personal and professional relationships. The Negotiation Skills for Lawyers Report identifies the key principles of effective negotiation, highlighting the different phases of negotiation and providing invaluable tips and techniques that can be employed to guarantee success.
This indispensable new report separates KM myth (and hype) from the reality, detailing the thoughts of these leading KM gurus, and presenting their theories in a highly practical context …
This 290 page report focuses on nine knowledge professionals and the environments that allowed them to launch and manage some of the most exceptional knowledge based initiatives in the world.
In the time that has passed since many partnerships were formed and their agreements settled, new legislation and rules of conduct have come into force that require firms to comply with various management obligations, from requirements under the Solicitors Code of Conduct, to the complex effect of age discrimination law on partnership agreements.
Most companies are feeling the pinch of the current economic crisis, and law firms are no exception. There is uncertainty of fee income, costs, client prospects and market developments. Confidence and morale have taken a hit.
To ensure continued prosperity, you need to gain the maximum value from your most expensive asset - people.
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