ALISTAIR MAIDEN It’s a question I get asked frequently. “How do I get started with CLM?” Knowing how to get to a goal is not easy, especially when it’s in an area where you are not an expert, like tech. I know how this feels. When I was starting my very first CLM project,…
Your information architecture (IA) can strongly influence your employee and client experience. If it is not good, user experience will suffer, which causes frustration and productivity to plummet. For example, if you have poor IA, employees may spend more time finding information than completing tasks. First thing’s first though – what is Information Architecture and…
The definition of ‘data’ can be pretty ambiguous. The thought of dealing with it can also be very overwhelming. As you read this, what is popping into your mind if you need to picture ‘data’? Is it a spreadsheet full of numbers or statistics generated by different computer coding languages? None of these is wrong,…
Following on from my previous article, which you can read here, I wanted to explore in more detail the use case for data integrations, and compare them with data migrations; a separate but linked process which is also crucial to future-proofing your data landscape. MIGRATIONS Data migration and integration refers to the process of moving…
I was speaking to a legal operations manager last week who asked me about integrations and APIs; “I keep hearing about how I should be making more use of integrations and APIs, but I don’t know where to begin?” After a fruitful conversation, which I seem to be having more and more frequently, I thought…
Anglo American is a global organisation operating across many time zones, business units and jurisdictions. The Global Group Legal team was keen to move beyond simply managing risk and start delivering greater value to the business by becoming a genuinely strategic partner. They wanted a single view of matters and trends across all the jurisdictions…
At SYKE we’re pleased to celebrate International Women’s Day in 2022 and help to #breakthebias. Both legal and tech have been historically male-dominated industries; we welcome the fact that this is rapidly changing. We’re also proud to not just talk the talk, but walk the walk too, with women making up 48% of our global…
Despite ongoing progress in the digitisation of contracts, corporate governance (or lack thereof) is still problematic in 2022. A substantial proportion of a company’s contractual commitments are often entered into without the scrutiny and approval that you would expect, and certainly not in accordance with that company’s own corporate governance rules. Often this frustrating issue…
Unlike a lover, which most will claim you don’t need any reason to love – businesses do need a justification to love legal tech, we want it to bring tangible advantages. There are so many benefits legal tech can give, and you will not be able to help but fall in love with it once…
Recently, Mark Reynolds, Associate Director in our Thomson Reuters practice, spoke to Mark Dodd and Alex Fellowes from LOD about the evolving landscape of legal self-service. What it’s all about, how it can help your teams, and the pitfalls to avoid when embarking on a self-serve project. Below are some abridged highlights from that discussion,…