| Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett, financier |
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| 2008 Conference |
Building Bridges to the Practice: Connecting IT Strategy to the Business |
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Consultant Sally Gonzalez explores "structural" ways to connect IT strategy with business strategy and discusses organizational structures, communication methodologies and other techniques designed to help you make the connection. |
| 2008 Conference |
Dupont IT Legal & Compliance Group Strategic Plan |
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Gabrielle Townsend shares the methodology her group used in developing a strategic technology plan. |
| 2008 Conference |
Executing an IT Strategic Plan for the Corporate Legal Department |
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Tania Daniels shares the techniques used in her department to develop an effective strategic plan. |
| 2006 Conference |
Business Strategy Should Drive IT Decisions |
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Alex Diaz discusses the importance of aligning IT with the firm's business strategy even to the level of individual practice groups within the firm. |
| 2006 Conference |
Current Management Trends: Do They Fit in Legal |
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Lynn and Stephen Glasser of Sandpiper Consulting posit that law is a people business, and provide a set of evaluation criteria for determining where your firm stands in that area, including discussions of 360 reviews and the Balanced Scorecard. |
| 2005 Conference |
IT Does Matter |
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Don Jaycox rebuts the notion that "IT doesn't matter". Also included are material on mattercentricity and PM. |
| 2003 Conference |
Aligning Business Practices & Technology Plans |
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Consultant Sally Gonzalez provides a framework for developing a technology plan that fits with your firm's business strategy (if they have one) and culture. |
| 2002 Peer to Peer |
Doing More with Less in Uncertain Times |
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Sally Gonzalez provides some practical tips on negotiation, the use of leases and improving your internal training to get more out of less in tough times. |
| 2002 Peer to Peer |
Projects, Projects, Everywhere - Which One do You Pick? |
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Bob Dolinsky of eSentio Technologies gives some advice on how to select projects when faced with many competing priorities |
| 2002 Peer to Peer |
Turning Strategy into Action |
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Jonathan Weinstein of Canal Bridge Consulting looks at five steps to develop a strategic plan that will translate into organizational action. |
| 2002 Conference |
Connecting Law Firms & Corp Legal Depts |
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Doug Caddell uses the Susskind Grid as a model for how law firms can develop more client-focused systems. |
| 2002 Conference |
Fantasy Meets Reality: Strategic Planning & Budgeting |
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A detailed, step-by-step guide to developing a strategic plan, by Cynthia Aylsworth, ILTA member. |
| 2002 Conference |
Implementing Technology |
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Eugene Stein looks at issues faced by a firm’s technology team that may not always be known or visible to the lawyers and issues lawyers experience that may not always be known or communicated to the technology team, and how to bring the two together. |
| 2002 Conference |
KM Strategies that Work |
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Member Kirk Scruggs and John Fish from HubbardOne present a case study on how strategic planning concepts helped them develop a successful KM portal for the firm. |
| 2002 Conference |
Law Firm IT: Drain or Gain? |
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Member Teresa Grote details how her firm developed an internal "profit-center" approach to providing often-billable IT services to the firm and its clients. |
| 2001 Conference |
Legal IT vs Corporate IT |
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In the corporate world, there's a big difference between Legal department IT and Corporate IT. In this presenation, Pam Cottier and Tracey Schreiner show how they developed a separate legal IT group in their company. |
| 2000 Docposit |
Strategic Planning and Budgeting |
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A bibliography of over 40 books and publications relevant to Legal on the subject of strategic planning, provided to ILTA by law firm consultant William Cobb. |
| 2000 Conference |
Working in E-Time |
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Betsy Ward Kalb of Xerox makes some interesting points about the different philosophies of work held by different generations (Boomers vs GenX, etc) and how the demographic shift is affecting firms. |