Allan Evans is global head of clients and markets at BDO accountants and in the UK leads a team of more than 60 people. Prior to joining BDO, Allan was the sales and marketing director for PricewaterhouseCoopers and before that he worked at Abbey Life, Lloyds TSB, Friends Provident and Read More
A recent article in The Lawyer (18 February 2013) focused on innovation in smaller law firms. I have summarised the ways in which the featured firms achieved their innovation: Anthony Collins (£14.4m, Birmingham) – Niche in social housing, health and social care, local government, education and faith communities. Flint Bishop (£9.4m, Derby) Read More
It’s rare to be able to get your hands on success statistics so I was interested to see an article in The Lawyer (30th November 2012) which showed how Freshfields’ CRM is faring. The article indicated that: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has seen fee income from its top 30 clients increase by Read More
I’ve written a fair amount about strategy (see the links below) but I thought it might be worth going back to some basics. So here's some strategy basics -Mintzberg (who I often talk about in training sessions in the context of emergent strategy). In 1987, he provided five Ps for Read More
A recent Open University Business School (OUBS) webinar provided a summary of a January strategy summit. The panel included Peter Wainwright, Professor Thomas Lawton, Jo Salter and Antoine Boatwright (Dell) and included numerous case study video clips. This article summarises the webinar - Competitive strategy for business growth: Process, practice Read More
