Year: 2002

Testing to see if the import of my Blogger posts worked…

I will be transitioning away from blogger.com to Userland’s Radio application by week’s end. I had high hopes for Blogger’s ability to serve as a web-based front-end to this site, but in the end the inability of the company to handle their own growth has proven problematic. I haven’t had reliable access to the site…

Arthur Andersen Is Said to Be Near a Sale to a Rival. No surprise, the biggest issue remains how DT can assume Andersen’s assets without also assuming its liabilities:In addition to confronting potential fines from criminal charges, Andersen is also facing possible regulatory action by the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as myriad lawsuits…

Ernie the Attorney is another lawyer/blogger who posted this quote earlier in the week: It’s more likely that attorneys, judges and paralegals don’t know how to use the technology, or have limited interest in learning how to use new tools for old jobs. And as for attorneys, this is more true of defense lawyers, sadly…

A report from HBS Working Knowledge titled Customers & Services: The Customer Knows Best? Better Think Again suggests that customers aren’t always the best guide for innovation. The report is an excerpt from a Harvard Business Review article published in January, and seems to be in the Clayton Christensen school of thought (Christensen wrote The…

Today’s Recorder (a San Francisco legal publication) reports on Cisco’s System – that is, the system set up by its new General Counsel, Mark Chandler to manage and leverage his outside counsel. A couple years ago when Mark was an assistant GC at Cisco, he and I were speakers at an American Management Association seminar.…

John Hiler follows up last week’s article about why Google loves blogs with even more information about how Google bombs can get created, the power frequently-trafficked sites have to influence Google search results, and the implications for Google users long-term. With respect to Goolge bombs, Hiler says that “the weblog community is only now beginning…

Why do most mergers fail, but some succeed? A recent report in The McKinsey Quarterly suggests that some organizations are able to make mergers and/or acquisitions a part of their long-term growth strategy. (This is a follow-up to a McKinsey study from last fall dissecting why most mergers fail. I wrote about that report in…

The European Court of Justice ruled on February 21 that the Dutch Bar’s ban on MDPs was valid. This ruling is yet another implication of the Enron debacle, as Europe has traditionally been more friendly towards lawyer/non-lawyer partnerships than the U.S. (See my 1/29 post which discussed the possible implications of the MDP debate in…

Knowledge@Emory reports that AOL’s President of Worldwide and Interactive TV Richard Friedman says that AOL’s brand is “the power of a blend of ideas, a sense of identity, and it helps consumers make decisions in a crowded marketplace.” Later in the article, Friedman cites these three examples as evidence that everything at AOL (a “destination”,…