Do academics and practitioners believe they have much to learn from each other? If we look for evidence of meaningful exchange — shared conferences, the prevalence of journals that appeal to both groups, or just the quantity and quality of listening that occurs when both are in the same room — the answer appears to
“Crossing the Chasm” and the “Hype Cycle”, Part II (025)
In Part I (024) of this series, I introduced Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm framework. In Part II (025), the goal is to apply it to a contemporary example of a high-tech company selling to legal departments. Part II then finishes the chasm framework and discusses some of the special challenges of applying
“Crossing the Chasm” and the “Hype Cycle”, Part I (024)
The two figures above reflect frameworks that are widely used within the technology industry to grapple with the treacherous nature of high-tech product development.
Figure 1 is the 2017 Hype Cycle, which is published by Gartner, a large international research company that helps CIOs and other IT professionals understand and evaluate emerging technologies.
Public Event: Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer (023)
Legal Evolution PBC is pleased to announce our first public event. On Tuesday, October 10, author and researcher Randy Kiser of DecisionSet® will give a lecture and Q&A session based on his recently published book, Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer (Cambridge University Press 2017).
This event is graciously hosted by Chapman and Cutler LLP
Inside the Client’s Head: 2017 CLOC Institute Programming (022)
The graphic above is a breakdown of the 76 sessions at the 2017 CLOC Institute. Since there were seven concurrent tracks, it was impossible to attend more than a small fraction of the total programs. Nonetheless, if one wants to understand the mindset and priorities of corporate legal departments, there is hardly a better
The Legal Services Innovation Index (021)
Earlier this week came some unexpected good news for the legal ecosystem. Dan Linna of Michigan State Law unveiled the Legal Services Innovation Index, which provides some very interesting and compelling measures of innovation by: (1) country, (2) practice area, (3) type of innovation, (4) firm size / global segmentation, and (5) individual law
Change Agents and Opinion Leaders (020)
The chart above, drawn from Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations Fig. 7-1 (5th ed. 2003), shows the adoption of hybrid seed corn by farmers in two Iowa communities. The dashed line on the bottom shows the number of adoptions by year. The solid line on top shows adoption on a cumulative basis. The first farmer
Honest and Informed Conversations (019)
If we categorize all of our business conversations into the above four buckets, which bucket is the fullest?
Unfortunately, I vote for bucket 4. We end up in bucket 4 because we want to be perceived as being fully informed. Yet, being fully informed takes a lot of solitary, uncompensated effort with no certain prospect
Legal Operations Skills During Your 1L Summer (018)
Many lawyers are daunted by the prospect of data, process, and technology. Yet, retooling might not be that hard.
Below is a list of knowledge, skills, and technologies learned this summer by three of my 1L Indiana Law students. The catalyst was a 3½-week program at the University of Colorado Law School in May combined
Innovation in Organizations, Part III (017)
The graphic above reflects three different types of innovation “outcomes”:
- Initiation of an innovation adoption process that results in an organization making a decision to adopt an innovation. See Post 015
- Implementation of the adoption decision, which entails planning, change management, and redefining/restructuring and clarifying the innovation in the field so that it delivers its