Strategy

White Paper: Apps by UK law, accountancy and property firms – Are we missing the mobile revolution?

Are you App-Aware, App-Agnostic or App-Happy? I have monitored the introduction of Apps by professional service firms (PSFs) in the legal, accountancy and property markets over the past few years and even built a spread sheet analysing their key features and relative strengths and weaknesses. I intended to write a Read More

Technology, strategy, innovation and pricing dominate Law South Conference

I spent yesterday at the lovely Fanhams Hall Hotel in Hertfordshire with the 12 law firms who make up Law South. There were four speakers (Professor Richard Susskind OBE, Nick Jarrett-Kerr, Tim Aspinall of DMH Stallard and myself) and two interactive sessions with the 50 or so members using electronic Read More

2013-08-07T22:12:39+01:00May 12, 2012|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Marketing, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

Marketing expertise – recruit an in-house person or commission an external agency?

I have just published a short article on this topic for Delia Venables’ Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. They key points covered include: Recruiting your own marketing person Existing active programme of activities? Level of involvement of partners/lawyers? Generalist or specialist? Tactical or strategist? Detailed job description? How will you measure Read More

2013-08-07T18:13:35+01:00May 12, 2012|Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing|

Adaptation and reinvention – Taking my own medicine

Branding is tricky at the best of times. But when you have to apply the process to yourself or your own business it becomes almost impossible. When I established my first company - Practical Marketing Consultancy Ltd - way back in 1994 the world was a very different place. Almost Read More

Do you fear the future? Futurologists speak out at LawTech Futures 2012

One of the most thought provoking questions I think I was ever asked was “Do you fear the future?”. And it must have been running through the minds of the 530 or so delegates at the LawTech Futures conference in Victoria yesterday as we listened to two leading futurologists. Charles Read More

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