11 Mar Asynchronous vs. synchronous communication
Effective collaboration is a necessity and goal in every organization. Get it right, and you gain a strong operational and competitive advantage. Mess it up, and the consequences could be dire. As a growing company with a highly distributed workforce, our ability to maintain clear,…
26 Feb Data show benefits of flexible work policies
With the surge in telecommuting in recent years has come a backlash of sorts from the corporate world. However, the remote work death knells have been prematurely sounded.
06 Aug Top five skills required for librarians
Because today’s librarians must be experts in dealing with both physical and digital information, we have identified the top five skills every librarian must have, or develop, in order to succeed now and into the future. In this post, we touch on all five librarian…
21 Jan The road to law firm profitability in 2015
Although law firm leaders are projecting a healthy 2015, the long-term consensus is that profitability will face continued downward pressure. As President Obama just delivered his State of the Union speech, I decided to turn this into a ‘State of Law Firm Profitability’ address. While doing…
22 Dec Digitization and distributed labor
It’s the time of the year for trend-spotting, and a number of staffing and recruiting trends for 2015 have hit blogs and social media already. I am adding our voice, focusing on what we and our industry peers believe will be the top three staffing…
02 Oct The future of law librarianship
What does the future hold for law librarians? Our friends to the north, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL), hosted a Twitter chat recently on future opportunities for law librarians. Fred Headon, Past President of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and Chair of the…
05 Aug LexisNexis® advancements to Lexis Advance
Without a good User Interface (UI), even the most current and complete information systems are essentially worthless. Well, perhaps “worthless” is a bit strong. Yet a well-designed, intuitive UI can mean the difference between success (prompt, relevant results) and failure (tedious, time-consuming struggle) when trying to…
15 Apr Long live the library
Increasingly, books are created with electrons instead of atoms and libraries are going digital. We deliver Library as a Service, a cloud-based delivery platform combined with research and curation expertise of our distributed network of information specialists. Yet in honor of National Library Week (April…
11 Mar Don’t define KM strategy
When it comes to developing a Knowledge Management strategy, we can’t over-emphasize the importance of understanding your organization’s level of maturity. Since maturity is a key consideration, this article will share three KM maturity models that can help you develop or adapt the most effective…
