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
I’ve just written a review of this book for Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/ I’ve read many books on change management before but this one comes with a really big recommendation. It’s quick, easy and inspiring to read. And the few lessons – illustrated beautifully with great success stories from all Read More
I saw a demonstration of PitchPoint software - a new pitch development system - by Andy Driskell of Iphelion. Module to make pitch data capture easy The demonstration started with the administration part of the system where fee-earners or business development team are tasked with a “to do” list to go Read More
Last week I was joined by over 20 surveyors at the first presentation on this new MBL course on “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice”. Change management is a key topic. During the day we covered a lot of material including: business planning, strategy development, management functions, market analysis, Read More
I was struck at a recent PM training course “Towards KAM – helping fee-earners with client relationship management” that there were a number of business development professionals in professional service firms who were in dedicated key account management roles. So books on Key Account Management (KAM) are topical and I reviewed Read More