Building the Case for Change: Implementing Smart Collaboration Series

Heidi K. Gardner Ivan Matviak

Collaboration Law firm management Strategy

report June 2020

In this first part of our Implementing A Smart Collaboration Strategy series, we lay out the diagnostic phase which helps identify current collaboration barriers and bright-spots and provides guide-posts for future areas of focus. Galvanizing the organization around collaboration requires a bottom-up ground swell of support.

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Part 1 of the Implementing Smart Collaboration Report Series. This series lays out a research-based, practical approach for law firms to turn their collaboration strategy into a living, breathing part of daily life. Given most firms’ culture of high autonomy and decentralization, leaders need to drive it both from the top-down and bottom-up. Implementing Smart Collaboration requires a clear-eyed view of the current state of collaboration, and then targeted approaches to strategy implementation.