At the recent Professional Marketing Forum conference (I wrote a review for the magazine which was published on 1st November) http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ futurologist Chris Yapp gave his view on the future of professional firms. He referred to the recent research by Deloitte/Oxford University which focused on the impact of artificial intelligence Read More
During the summer I worked with The Lawyer magazine analysing the real estate costs in law firms. Real estate costs and a wide range of other financial and head count data for over a 100 of the UK’s 200 leading law firms were analysed to produce the first detailed report Read More
Profitability through dinosaurs? Often during my training sessions on client service, client management, relationship management or key account management (KAM) with lawyers, accountants and surveyors I’ll spend some time drawing dinosaurs. And last week I was finally persuaded to share my ideas on a blog. Onwards plods the Diplodocus You Read More
Last week I facilitated a CLT seminar on “Client care, client service and client retention” http://www.clt.co.uk/course/Client-Care-Service-Excellence-and-Retention/ Whilst we covered a lot of material relating to understanding commercial and consumer client needs, engaging everyone in responding appropriately at all touch points and best practice in day-to-day service delivery, client care and relationship Read More
Recently I ran another of the popular “marketing planning in a nutshell” training session for PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/. The 18 delegates – from a variety of legal and accountancy firms - selected the key topics discussed for a follow up blog post: 3 themes from marketing planning: Stepping stones, persuasion and Read More
