IBM hosts a site, many-eyes.com, which lets a user upload data in a simple format and specify the parameters and type of graph desired (See my posts of May 3, 2008: eleven methods of data visualization; and May 7, 2008: seven more methods.). Besides informing and inspiring users, the site…
Earlier I summarized 11 ways to depict data visually (See my post of May 3, 2008: from a chart.). Since that time, I have dredged up seven more methods. Bubble charts, where the size of the bubble combines with the bubble’s location against the left and right axis to show…
A stunning chart, available at Visual Literacy colorfully and usefully displays a “periodic table of visualization methods.” The chart shows 86 methods, clustered like an atomic element chart, for data, information, concepts, strategy, metaphor and compound methods (See my posts of Dec. 9, 2005: data visualization software and some uses;…
Kraft Foods Global won the 2008 Legal Technology News award for the most innovative in-house use of technology. As described in Legal Tech. News, March 2008 at 31, a senior litigation lawyer teamed up with a director of records management as well as the company’s IT department. That was a…
For some time I have thought that in the free market of ideas, where examples, experiences and exhortations about how best to manage an in-house team are widely circulated, the better ideas would rise to the top. Thereafter, the good ideas would become increasingly more common as a Darwinian selection…
One worthy objective is to receive bills from law firms in electronic format; a second objective, distinctly more complicated, is to convey the information about bills your have approved to your company’s accounts payable system. Be that system Oracle, SAP, or some other Enterprise Resource Program (ERP), the proper accounting…
Two overarching and equal terms could describe all of law department management: people and processes. The concept of people encompasses all aspects of talent management, cognitive styles, and leadership. We might even include outside counsel in people. Perhaps we would call that side the Dionysian twin. The Apollonian twin, processes,…
No one can carry out a new idea who is too afraid of failure. Risk shadows novelty, so as much as we prate about the benefits of creativity (See my post of Nov. 24, 2007: creativity in-house and click here for a PDF of my article Download rees_morrison_creativity_12207.pdf.) we must…
It falls trippingly from the tongue: “Let’s draft and circulate a policy.” Say, for instance, a policy on when to close matters stored on a matter management system. The fundamental question is whether the effort to draft, communicate, and enforce a policy is justified by the benefits expected to come…
Ian Ayres, Super-Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart (Bantam 2007) describes in Chapter 2 how business uses randomized tests to learn more about their markets. For one group of consumers, picked at random, they do something and for the rest they do something different, then pore…