«It strikes me that law firms have very little idea of
what business development activities they really want to encourage among their lawyers and so take a scattershot approach to the effort.
Not exact matches
When you think about analytics in these terms, you can see that the need for Learning and
Development to have evidence of
what's working and how our
activity becomes
business critical and urgent.
Our plans for implementing the proposed initiative will include the following
activities: (1) continuing to build their evidence base to understand for whom their intervention works best and least, and in
what contexts; (2) refining their program model with a sharp focus on producing the materials that will be needed to achieve successful replication at scale; (3) solidifying the commitment of the selected scaling champions (i.e., the person who will drive the continuing
development of the intervention and its implementation at scale); and (4) building the infrastructure necessary to support effective scaling, including the
development of a
business plan and training support structure, along with the successful navigation of intellectual property issues.
After a career of «serial entrepreneurship» in the worlds of entertainment finance, Internet commerce and real estate
development, he turned his entrepreneurial and
business activities to addressing
what he describes as the «disturbing deterioration» of the natural environment.
What is necessary for good
business development, say successful lawyers and consultants who shared their strategies with the ABA Journal, is a marketing plan focused on
activities you do well, targeted at the right audience and carried out consistently.
In 2016 the pressure to drive top line revenue will increase their need to better track
business development activities not only to understand
what has driven past successes but to better predict which individuals at specific clients should be targeted for the best return on their time and budget investments.»
What gets measured gets done; if your firm values
business development activities and relationship - building, measure it and compensate it.