Outsourcing Project Management - Advantages and Challenges

Many technology projects bog down because internal technology resources have full-time and often unpredictable work loads of daily fire-fighting. With the proper planning and the right person, outsourcing can be a highly effective means of managing an IT project. As one in our continuing series on project management, this article explores some advantages and challenges of supplementing your internal resources with an outside project manager. For more info...

Portal User Survey by Plumtree

Plumtree published its annual survey of portal customers, including survey data from over 100 organizations that have recently deployed portals. While the respondents are largely corporations, there are useful insights for law firms. The benefit of the portal for 61% of the respondents was "employee self-service and access to information/applications" rather than cost cutting, customer service, or document publishing. Over two-thirds of the respondents deployed the portal in less than six months and only 5% experienced "indefinite delay." Major deployment challenges were integration of applications (for over 50% of respondents) and getting buy-in (for nearly 40%). If you want to explore whether a portal might be right for your firm please call or send us a message. For a copy of the white paper, click here.

Change Management - Producing Better and Faster Results

The fear of change and its potential to undermine the acceptance of new technology, processes or organizations have been the subject of much discussion within the business and academic worlds. This brief article provides some thoughtful suggestions to avoid problems as you contemplate major new technology projects. For more info ...

Don't Let Your LAWFIRM.COM Expire

What would happen if the domain name for your firm expired and someone else purchased it? No external e-mail, no web site and much embarrassment... To prevent this from happening, read our article on domain name registration and tips.

This Month's Answer
A new feature in Word XP enables browsing by comment, footnote, edit, and several other ways. To browse, click on the double arrows located in the lower right corner just below the vertical scroll bar. The default is browse by page. To change, click on the button between the arrows for a menu of browse options. For example, click on the comment icon and then click on the double arrows to browse forward or backward through the document to each comment.