Strategic planning

Law Society legal market research 2016 – The future of legal services

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

Be more strategic – creating behaviour change

At the PM Forum’s “Being more strategic” course http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ last week we covered a lot of ground. During the day we explored techniques for: thinking strategically, strategic processes, developing business strategy and strategic marketing. The feedback (see below) was fantastic. When I asked delegates on what topic they would most Read More

2015-07-06T12:18:57+01:00July 6, 2015|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|

Six highlights from CLT’s Business Development for Lawyers training course

Yesterday, I led another training session for CLT on Business Development for Lawyers in London. The session takes delegates on the journey from analysing their markets and services, setting goals, selecting appropriate strategies and creating integrated marketing, communications, sales and relationship management campaigns. As usual, the nature of the delegates’ Read More

2014-10-22T18:45:55+01:00October 22, 2014|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Social Media, Strategy|

Strategy workshop: Skills, resources, involvement and tools for the journey

Yesterday saw the first presentation of the new PM Forum training course on “Being more strategic” (a Strategy workshop) which was hosted in the marvellous client space at Linklaters solicitors. Whilst most delegates were from law firms there were a good number from accountancy practices and even a representative from Read More

2014-10-18T17:04:36+01:00October 18, 2014|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|

Book review: “Developing a business strategy – How to use strategic planning to start up or grow your business” FT Essential Guides by Vaughan Evans

I’ve read numerous books on strategy since before my MBA in 1996 and ever since. There were some good and some poor. As part of preparing for the forthcoming course on “Being more strategic” for PM Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ I needed to select a couple of books to recommend to delegates. Read More

2014-08-19T16:00:04+01:00August 19, 2014|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing, Strategy|
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