This legal market research report was published in January and is a cracking example of comprehensive SLEPT (or PEST) and market attractiveness analyses that will be valuable to any law firm strategic planning process. It’s a whopping 64 pages and it’s worth its weight in gold. It identifies five clusters Read More
On Monday evening I attended the Inaugural Lecture for Laurie at Allen & Overy’s offices where there main speakers were Richard Susskind and his son Daniel. James Luke from IBM was also interviewed and there was a panel discussion with representatives from Allen & Overy, The Law Society, the Institute Read More
I was recently asked to prepare a session for a group of law firms on Return on Investment ROI in professional service firm marketing and business development. Sometimes, marketers are a bit like Jesse J and expect partners to make a leap of faith – “It’s not about the money, Read More
At the recent Professional Marketing Forum conference, Ian Pearson (BT’s lead futurologist for 16 years) provided some provocative food for thought to add into our environmental (SLEPT or PEST) analyses and scenario planning with his views on the future trends in technology. He drew a broad landscape by charting how 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
