Category Archives: Process

Law Firm Profitability

“Emerging Approaches to Law Firm Profitability” You’ll find my contribution at Chapter 3: “Better, faster, cheaper”. – What is process design and improvement? – Where to start with your first process-related project. – Improvement cycles. You can find out more … Continue reading

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6 steps to getting Lessons *Learned*

Lesson learning, retrospectives, look-backs, AALs, AARs, whatever you call it, it makes sense to learn what works and doesn’t within your own organisation – stops you reinventing the wheel, shares expertise around, keeps clients happy etc etc. So why don’t … Continue reading

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5 questions to get your experts database working

With so much information generally available, it is increasingly important to know who is an expert in what knowledge within your organisation. Most law firms have had some form of “White Pages” (an internal address book, adapted to an organisation’s … Continue reading

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Process Management for law firms

Last Tuesday we at KN-UK met to hear from Duncan Ogilvy of 3Kites and talk about process and project management in law firms. Having been a Head of Knowledge, Managing Partner, teacher on the Nottingham MBA and now Consultant at … Continue reading

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Learning KM in 2017

If you plan to improve your learning and networking in 2017, I’ve got the following events coming up which will interest you:   January 25th – KM: The Works – London A day-long foundation course in professional services sector KM. … Continue reading

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Want to spend a year living knowledgeably?

The proof of the proof is checked and is ready to be turned into a book – “A Year of Living Knowledgeably: 12 KM Projects for Law Firms” is off to the printers! When I wrote “KM Handbook” for the … Continue reading

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Knowledge maps – a practical project for PSLs

  Knowledge mapping = a visual architecture of knowledge which enables and faciliates knowledge users to more easily and quickly access relevant knowledge and knowledge owners (Gomez et al 2000).   It sounds great to me – a visual, intuitive … Continue reading

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Process design and mapping 101 for lawyers

1. What is process design? Process design is the activity which shapes the form of the services that a law firm delivers to its clients, in accordance with their strategy, and the process that produces them. 2.What is process mapping? … Continue reading

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How are your New Year resolutions going?

It’s been a couple of weeks now since 2013 began.  Are you still keeping your resolutions?  If not, why do you think they have fallen by the wayside?  I’m not going to jinx my resolutions by discussing them here, but … Continue reading

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