Information technology in law firms can be strategic. What does it mean for IT to be "strategic"?
IT departments can help law firms generate significant profitability. That said, the reality is that
most firms still view IT as a cost center and a "keep the lights on" type of function.
Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter months similar to outbreaks in humans. The classical swine flu virus (an influenza type A H1N1 virus) was first isolated from a pig in 1930.
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Scholle had an older, decentralized Novellbased
infrastructure that limited
communications options, saddled the IT
staff with excessive management chores,
and frequently failed.
A good strategy is the blueprint for business success. For many organizations, mergers and acquisitions
are a critical component of their blueprint. Although the value drivers such as cost cutting, the promise of
new channels and customers, and improved competitive positioning may vary from company to company,
one thing is constant – after the deal is done, executives need to refresh their strategy and they need to
do it fast.
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Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter months similar to outbreaks in humans. The classical swine flu virus (an influenza type A H1N1 virus) was first isolated from a pig in 1930.
NEC is launching two web applications called Vukunet and Advuku to automate the digital place-based advertising process. This will allow advertisers to identify potential networks, negotiate ad placements, manage campaigns, and access daily proof-of-play reports. NEC expects this solution to significantly increase revenues by expanding the market and delivering the fastest payback in company history. The applications were built using Microsoft technologies like SQL Server and .NET to provide reliability, scalability and a user-friendly interface.
Scholle had an older, decentralized Novellbased
infrastructure that limited
communications options, saddled the IT
staff with excessive management chores,
and frequently failed.
A good strategy is the blueprint for business success. For many organizations, mergers and acquisitions
are a critical component of their blueprint. Although the value drivers such as cost cutting, the promise of
new channels and customers, and improved competitive positioning may vary from company to company,
one thing is constant – after the deal is done, executives need to refresh their strategy and they need to
do it fast.
Project Leadership Associates (PLA) has launched a new Virtualization Solutions Practice led by Mitch Northcutt to provide comprehensive desktop virtualization solutions for organizations with 250 to 5,000 desktops. The practice will help clients streamline their desktop lifecycles through virtualization which can reduce costs, simplify management, and provide users with anytime access while meeting security and compliance needs. PLA's experience in infrastructure design and understanding of differences between server and desktop virtualization positions them to deliver best practices for virtualization deployments.
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program also provides several new advantages to partners, including increased margin protection, improved lead generation processes and enhanced communications and training.
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“NEC has a very aggressive target for its return
on investment in this revolutionary Web-based tool. It
is the convergence of technology and business
opportunity that is making it possible.”
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"Project Leadership Associates, Inc. (PLA) is the largest provider of business and
technology consulting solutions, focused on the US legal market. Since 1998, PLA has
served more than 350 global and US law firm and corporate legal departments of all
sizes."
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“We told everyone in advance that the new phone
book was going to be a killer intranet application,
so it was important for us to nail that one.
Working with PLA, we did.”
Altman Weil, Inc. and Project
Leadership Associates, Inc. today announced that they have signed a formal strategic
alliance agreement. Both firms provide strategic advisory and consulting services to the
global legal market
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program also provides several new advantages to partners, including increased margin protection, improved lead generation processes and enhanced communications and training.
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“NEC has a very aggressive target for its return
on investment in this revolutionary Web-based tool. It
is the convergence of technology and business
opportunity that is making it possible.”
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PSAV, an event services company with 2,500 employees across 600 locations, was spending over $300,000 annually on third-party audio and web conferencing services. They deployed Microsoft Office Communications Server and Unified Messaging in Exchange Server to improve communications capabilities and reduce costs. The integrated solution provides instant messaging, presence, and audio/video conferencing at a fraction of the previous cost. It has replaced third-party services and improved collaboration, saving PSAV over $300,000 per year.
"Project Leadership Associates, Inc. (PLA) is the largest provider of business and
technology consulting solutions, focused on the US legal market. Since 1998, PLA has
served more than 350 global and US law firm and corporate legal departments of all
sizes."
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Radio Flyer chose a Microsoft BI solution over Oracle and SAP Business Objects because it provided better insight for decision making with less IT involvement at a lower total cost of ownership. The Microsoft solution centralized data from various systems into a SQL Server data warehouse and cubes that powered dashboards, standardized reports, and ad hoc analyses in Excel. This enabled executives and analysts to access timely, detailed information for improved operations and planning with minimal IT support.
“We told everyone in advance that the new phone
book was going to be a killer intranet application,
so it was important for us to nail that one.
Working with PLA, we did.”
Altman Weil, Inc. and Project
Leadership Associates, Inc. today announced that they have signed a formal strategic
alliance agreement. Both firms provide strategic advisory and consulting services to the
global legal market
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It departments can be profit centers
1. IT departments can be profit centers
Jay Bahel
Published in the May 03, 2010 edition of The National Law Journal
Information technology in law firms can be strategic. What does it mean for IT to be "strategic"?
IT departments can help law firms generate significant profitability. That said, the reality is that
most firms still view IT as a cost center and a "keep the lights on" type of function.
Examples of how IT is typically judged within firms include such considerations as: "How good
is my help desk at solving problems well and quickly?" "Does the system work when I need it
to?" "Is my e-mail slow?" "Does my BlackBerry work?" Yes, IT is all those things. But here's
the truth for 2010 and beyond — those elements of IT are an expected commodity.
Ten years ago, law firms would operate largely on the phone with some e-mail. Now, laws firms
are working around the clock — largely due to advances in technology. And all that base
technology that enables the (in theory) always-available infrastructure must work. That base
technology, and the IT operations surrounding it, now become the equivalent of dial tone on the
office telephone — it has always has to be there and working.
The opportunity for law firms is to support IT so that it can help make them more profitable. In
many firms, areas such as marketing, business development and practice management are
thought of as strategic delivery units, as they help generate profit for firms. What firm
management often forgets (or doesn't know) is that IT in law firms offers the same — if not
greater — opportunity. IT can help by delivering real-time information on clients, verdicts, client
competition and profitable versus unprofitable matters. IT systems and data can help the firm
take on more profitable work, avoid mistakes, improve value of delivery and remove costs via
automation — yielding fantastic efficiencies. All of this can be exploited to help firms respond to
the quickly evolving marketplace of high-value client delivery which has transformed the legal
industry in the past 18 months.
The following are examples of ways firms can use IT to generate significant profitability:
• IT can help drive more revenue via cross-selling among attorneys. IT can drive the
conversation between working and billing lawyers to help break down the traditional protective
barriers that billing attorneys have historically created (relative to cross-selling). Although this is
typically the responsibility of the marketing function within law firms, IT is in a unique position
to be able to help marketing, and the firm as a whole, by project-managing these efforts;
identifying statistically significant relationships; and transforming data in accounting and
customer relationship management systems into opportunities for client development.
An example of a statistically significant relationship is when a firm works on a merger deal. The
firm's data might suggest that this type of deal typically creates opportunities to cross-sell that
client to three other internal practice areas. IT can't force these attorneys to talk to each other, but
IT can take the initiative to send these data to attorneys in an easy-to-understand format.
2. • IT can help firms develop further business and increase client satisfaction through the matter-
closure process. Law firms should ask questions at the end of a matter such as: "Did we generate
the fees that we thought we would?" "What were the skills that were required for this type of
matter?" "How do we update our Web site profile to make sure new client prospects know of our
expertise from a newly closed case?" Furthermore, firms should survey clients at the end of
every matter to see how the firm did relative to client expectations. IT can help manage the
automated workflow behind matter closure and help build systems on the firm's intranet to
leverage lessons learned from past matters.
• IT can help firms assess the success of alternative fee arrangements. Many law firms are
looking to alternative fee arrangements to help drive firm revenue and profitability. Some of the
key questions that arise from such arrangements include: How does the firm know whether it
made a profit on a particular matter? How does it price this type of matter going forward? How
does it incorporate alternative fee arrangements into partner compensation? And how does it turn
its lawyers into project managers? Many of these questions are answered with the help of
effective IT project-management processes and automated tools.
• IT can help law firms remove paper to reduce storage and administrative costs and increase
efficiencies within cases. The reality is that firms will likely never be fully paperless. But IT can
help in facilitating, identifying and project-managing which paper documents/records must be
retained, which can solely exist in electronic format, etc. All of these decisions should be aligned
to the requirements of reducing costs to the firm, increasing efficiency and increasing client
satisfaction.
An example of IT leverage to improve client satisfaction includes the use of electronic-discovery
automation to help identify "the smoking gun" in litigation matters. IT can identify the
appropriate software to allow the firm's lawyers to perform keyword searches against
electronically stored information instead of endless and sometimes fruitless searches in paper.
The efficiency, reduced costs and client satisfaction derived by these types of IT solutions shows
strong IT value.
• IT can help firms easily find data. Within the corporate world, studies show that 80% of the
most important data live in IT operational systems such as Oracle and SAP. Within law firms,
important data can live in as many as 10 to 20 different key systems, within, depending on firm
size and scale, hundreds of software applications and databases. The result is that information is
often redundant, incorrect and difficult to find.
The method to address these disparate systems is to bring many of these applications and
inherent data to a single presentation source via a "dashboard." A dashboard is a user-friendly,
typically highly graphical presentation of aggregated information on a Web site or intranet.
Dashboards allow lawyers and firm managers to easily find and measure information including
case-related documents and records, client intelligence, competitive intelligence, cross-selling
data, billings, cash collections, docketing data and conflicts, to name but a few. IT can help drive
the analysis, design, implementation and effective use of dashboards by key stakeholders of the
firm (and sometime clients).
3. • IT can help with litigation automation support. Many law firms struggle with how to provide
automation support to the litigation teams: "Should I charge back my client for litigation
support?" "How can I position the value of electronically stored information, versus paper, to my
client?" Litigation automation support is a key area in which IT can help increase the value of the
firm's litigation practice to drive increased revenue — better value along with decreased costs.
And the list of opportunities for how IT can generate profitability for the law firm goes on. The
moral of this story is that IT is strategic and can generate significant profitability for legal firms.
But how does a firm capitalize on generating profitability via IT and related automation? The
answer is quite simple. Firms must elevate the role of the chief information officer and improve
the balance of budgets and staffing between "keeping the lights on" activities and value-added,
profit-improvement plans.
One key area of high-performance law firm IT departments is the IT strategic analysts group. IT
strategic analysts within law firms bring a more business-centric view to IT and help drive the
strategic opportunities mentioned above.
Finally, data from Bain & Co. (based on a survey of more than 500 senior business and
technology executives) suggest that 85% of businesses do not have highly effective IT
capabilities. "Only 15% placed themselves on the highly effective side." And "only 7% of
respondents said that their IT organizations were both highly aligned with business strategy and
highly effective in delivering what was asked of them." David Shpilberg, Steve Berez, Rudy
Puryear and Sachin Shah, "Avoiding the Alignment Trap in Information Technology," MIT
Sloan Management Review (Oct. 1, 2007), http://tinyurl.com/ah5npc. The key to enabling
revenue growth is to align and execute strategic IT initiatives.
The opportunity to leverage law firm IT to improve firm profitability is significant. Think about
it. Much of the work that legal firms do these days is in front of a computer. Great opportunity is
locked up in law firm IT shops. Corporations think of IT very differently than do law firms —
and they have long since realized the value of IT through systems such as e-commerce, supply-
chain and enterprise-resource planning. Law firms can and must do the same, if they want to
survive and prosper.
Jay Bahel is chief information officer and senior solution group leader of Project Leadership
Associates, a Chicago-based consulting firm, where he advises law firms on how to exploit the
value of IT. He has served in several senior IT leadership roles in industry, including CIO. He
can be reached at jbahel@projectleadership.net