Lights out Lights speed: is Cloud our new Heaven?
In 2012, Wolters Kluwer migrated from Perot’s private data centers to Dell’s and Atos’s cloud based infrastructure. The reason was to create and deliver a safe and secure standard infrastructure for...
View ArticleThree Epic Insights from Hunting Legal Apps
In “Who will beat Law Firms?” I mention that Product Hunt had just 22 legal apps. That number seemed a bit low, so I went back to see if I could find more. And what I found was epic. Here are my 3 main...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cities: The Art of Digital Transformation
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light,...
View ArticleTelemedicine and the Technology Adoption Life-Cycle
Telemedicine seemed promising in the beginning especially for patients in rural areas, but has slowed over the past decade. With any new innovation the rate adoption is always a factor of value to the...
View ArticleLaw Firms Must Optimize Websites for Mobilegeddon & Discoverability
My colleague, Peter Liang, recently made a post about Google’s mobilegeddon. I’d like to contextualize it a bit more for law firms, though I’m not the first to do so. Lawyer.com observed that 46% of...
View ArticleThe Strategic Impact of “Mobilegeddon”
By now, you’ve most likely heard the term “Mobilegeddon.” If you haven’t, it refers to Google’s April 21st search algorithm update where search rankings now favor mobile-friendly websites on mobile...
View ArticleRebranding Beyond the Logo: the New wolterskluwer.nl
We’re a big company. Once a small bookshop and another publishing house, somewhere in the north of Netherlands, we are now a global company in over 140 countries (our Wikipedia page has the full...
View ArticleUbiquitous Computing Era – Wearables Rise!
In 1988 when Mark Weiser first articulated the concept of Ubiquitous Computing, I wonder if he had sensors and wearables in mind? Ubiquitous computing, sometimes called the age of calm technology...
View Article5 Confessions of a Trackaholic
My TicTrac Dashboard On Sunday, February 22, at precisely 16:44, my Fitbit Flex stopped syncing with my iPhone. I just finished 20 minutes on my elliptical trainer and I was feverishly waiting for my...
View ArticleVR and the Brain
Neuroscience and technology are increasingly collaborating in scientific research to advance understanding of how our brain works. This happens for different reasons: to replicate human brain functions...
View ArticleLawyers wearing a cardboard mask
My hometown, Milan, is known as the Italian city of business and, even more so for fashion. That’s why it may be difficult to see around someone wearing a cardboard mask while having a Virtual Reality...
View ArticleImproving Search with Long Tail
The Research on Search There are many problems facing enterprise search applications today. The main ones being poor recall, relevant results, and the lack of insightful information provided back to...
View ArticleSeymour: Maybe I Was Wrong About Legal Wearables
Maybe I was wrong about wearables because I needed to go beyond my comfort zone to see what’s around the bend. I too easily settled for limits. Seymour is the project name for one of the ideas that...
View ArticleEmerging Technologies for Lawyers
In Wolters Kluwer GPO Presents series this February, we are looking at emerging technologies and debating their applications for our customers. The discussion leads me to some ideas on how big data,...
View ArticlePushing Limits With Wearable Legal Services
Today, I gave my 2nd presentation, How To Disrupt Legal Disruptors, via the Wolters Kluwer GPO Presents series on the topic: wearables and legal services. Calling it a challenge is putting it mildly...
View ArticleUser Experience in Augmented Reality
Coming back from holiday season, a colleague of mine was wearing a brand new gear watch he received from Santa. I received a GPS watch from my brother who is a professor of Latin and Greek literature,...
View ArticleNow You See Me, Now You Don’t
Through his latest post, my colleague John Barker accelerated a discussion about technology and tools like Google Glass, which could augment the professional reality of our customers in a very radical...
View ArticleMeet Bondrew: Our Future ‘Freestyle’ Lawyer
Freestyle Chess is a competition between humans, who are allowed, like in correspondence chess, to make use of any technical support for selecting their moves. Basically it’s an interplay between human...
View ArticleProfessional Services Firms Must Use Segmentation Strategies in Developing...
Most professionals (lawyers and accountants) conduct at least some of their fee-producing knowledge work on mobile devices, specifically, smartphones and tablets. Tablet and smartphone apps are a great...
View ArticleCYOS Divergence: How The Growth of Apps Bolsters The Complex
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has taken root. In 2012, 38% of CIO’s expected to support personal devices. Now 82% of companies allow it and it’s posing new challenges for IT because along with these...
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