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Archive for February, 2008

Document management and collaboration

Posted in Collaboration, Culture, Knowledge, Lawyering, Projects, Technology on 28 February 2008 | 1 Comment »

James Dellow has neatly summarised a discussion about the relative merits of wikis and document management in law firms. Reading both reminded me that I owe an former co-conspirator my view on document management systems as a tool for collaboration. I hope what follows will suffice.Like most law firms, we have a document management system [...]

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CSR, and in memoriam

Posted in Personal on 19 February 2008 | No Comments »

Today is the fourth anniversary of the premature death of my former academic colleague John Parkinson. I still miss him, as I am sure do many others. He once kindly gave me a copy of J.B. Priestley’s English Journey (now out of print, apparently), which I cannot now read without a multiple sense of loss — [...]

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Can’t Buy Me Culture

Posted in Culture, KM, Lawyering, Management, Technology on 14 February 2008 | 2 Comments »

According to Jordan Furlong, “Money Talks“. He describes the adoption of a wiki by a North Carolina law firm, which is rewarding contributions by its staff with the incentive of a $1000 prize for the best contribution. Jordan reasons thus:
Law firms ask a lot of their employees, mostly with regard to cramming a whole lot [...]

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Projects, choice and satisfaction

Posted in Irrationality, Management, Projects, Rationality on 6 February 2008 | 1 Comment »

Patrick Lambe points to an article in the Des Moines Register reporting on research done at the University of Iowa.
The team’s paper, “The Blissful Ignorance Effect,” shows that people who have only a little information about a product are happier with their purchases than people who have more information, the U of I reported. The [...]

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