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Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law: A Practical Guide for Law Firms, Law Departments and Other Legal Organizations Kindle Edition

by Dennis Kennedy (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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Sometimes, innovators need some help from a trusted guide to keep their efforts on track and moving toward successful outcomes. In this comprehensive, practicable, and highly-readable legal innovation guide, innovators, innovators-to-be and leaders and decision-makers in law firms, law departments and legal organizations will be led through the key pieces of successful innovation processes to enhance the probability of success and decrease the probability of embarrassing and costly failures. Drawing on his many years of experience in law firms and law departments, his well-known expertise in innovation and legal technology and his familiarity with and involvement in the legal innovation movement, Dennis Kennedy covers the entire waterfront of innovation issues, shares his best tips and techniques, answers hard questions, and gives many helpful examples. This book will be an excellent desktop companion for your innovation journey. and an essential resource for forward-looking legal organizations of all kinds and for their customer as well.

Target audiences:
• Innovation team leaders (whether with the title of chief innovation officer or not)
• Business leaders wanting to drive innovation
• Individual innovators, including those who aspire to moving into one of the first two categories
• Clients and customers who want to see their providers bring them more innovation

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
I. An Innovation Primer
Chapter 2 Defining Innovation
Chapter 3 Is Legal Innovation Different?
Chapter 4 Optimization vs. Innovation
Chapter 5 The Adjacent Possible: Learning and Borrowing from Other Professions
Chapter 6 Innovation Models
Chapter 7 Ten Types of Innovation
II. Core Principles
Chapter 8 Why - What - How
Chapter 9 Focus on the Customer
Chapter 10 Business Models
Chapter 11 Diversity is Essential
Chapter 12 Quantity vs. Quality
Chapter 13 Constraints and Beautiful Constraints
Chapter 14 People, Process, and Technology
Chapter 15 Lawyers and Ideas: A Limiting Factor?
Chapter 16 External Ideas
III. Creating and Improving Innovation Programs
Chapter 17 Basic Plan / Roadmap and Budget
Chapter 18 Game Plan for Getting Started
Chapter 19 Requests to Make if You are Put in Charge
Chapter 20 Personnel and Who's in Charge
Chapter 21 Teams
Chapter 22 Internal Selling
Chapter 23 Small Wins
Chapter 24 Road Shows and Demos
Chapter 25 Innovation Committees
Chapter 26 Bringing in Help
Chapter 27 Coaching and Mentoring
Chapter 28 Advisory Boards
IV. A Taxonomy of Innovation Tools
Chapter 29 Scientific Method
Chapter 30 Experimentation, Results, and Failures
Chapter 31 Feedback: Ask Your Customers
Chapter 32 Brainstorming and Design Thinking
Chapter 33 Prototypes
Chapter 34 MVPs
Chapter 35 Visual Tools: Canvases, Maps and Kanban Boards
Chapter 36 Metrics, KPIs and OKRs
Chapter 37 Processes and Process Improvement
Chapter 38 Product and Project Management
Chapter 39 Advanced Techniques: Sprints and Labs
Chapter 40 Other Innovation Tools and Techniques
V. Examples of Innovation Efforts
Chapter 41 Three Innovation Efforts Corporate Counsel Want
Chapter 42 Selling to GCs and Other Decisionmakers
Chapter 43 Panel Convergence
Chapter 44 Key Client Programs
Chapter 45 Collaborating with Other Firms
Chapter 46 TechPrompts Example
VI. Risk and Portfolio Management
Chapter 47 Evaluating, Auditing, and Internal Reporting
Chapter 48 Risk Alignment: Portfolios and Portfolio Management
Chapter 49 Increasing and Decreasing Investment
Chapter 50 Changing Course and Pivoting
VII. Handling a Few Hard Things
Chapter 51 Unexpectedly Hard Stuff
Chapter 52 Barriers and Handling Objections
Chapter 53 Dealing with Failure / Pulling the Plug
Chapter 54 Self-Care
VIII. Action Steps, Tips, and Resources
Chapter 55 Action Steps and Conclusions
Chapter 56 Fifty-seven Tips
Chapter 57 Resources
Chapter 58 Acknowledgements and Information

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07Z9M56VT
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 17, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1977 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 222 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1734076305
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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J. Lawson
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful Guide to Innovation Process
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2020
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The late World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer liked to say "When I play the Ruy, it's like milking a cow." What he meant was that when he played his favorite opening setup, the Ruy Lopez, he could count on a steady, predictable stream of wins.

Dennis Kennedy's new book tries to make innovation in law firms or other organizations like milking a cow. Rather than waiting for a lightning strike of creativity, approach the innovation process systematically, step by step, until you get the results you want.

I got to know Dennis when we co-authored a column on Internet marketing for lawyers for three years. He is an inexhaustible fount of creativity. In this book he shares his comprehensive approach to innovation.

If you are looking to get better results from your organization, whether a law firm or other legal organization, you can't do better than letting this book be your guide.
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Montexvma
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente roadmap para innovadores legales
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020
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El libro cubre de una forma bastante completa las diferentes aristas de la innovación legal con un enfoque bien práctico. Recomiendo mucho este libro para interesados en tema y mas aún para personas involucradas en proyectos que busquen generar disrupción en servicios legales.
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Patrick J. McKenna
5.0 out of 5 stars A Practice Guide full of Helpful Checklists and Tools
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2019
Full disclosure - I gratefully received a review copy. That said I found this to be a practical guide, focused on successful innovation outcomes, filled with multiple helpful checklists, exercises, tools and highly informative website addresses for the reader to utilize. It consists of 54 Chapters divided into 8 Sections:

1. An Innovation Primer covers innovation definitions, innovation models, and the ten
types of innovation.
2. Core Principles is on the importance of customer focus, business models, diversity,
quantity vs. quality, constraints, people-process-technology, and ideas.
3. Creating and Improving Your Program cover a basic roadmap, teams, internal selling, small wins, road shows and demos, innovation committees, bringing in help, coaching and mentoring, and advisory boards.
4. A Taxonomy of Innovation Tools examines experimentation, brainstorming, prototypes, visual tools, feedback loops, advanced techniques, and other innovation tools.
5. Examples of Innovation Efforts cover three innovation efforts that will work.
6. Risk and Portfolio Management includes evaluations and audits, risk alignment and portfolio management, changing course and pivoting.
7. Handling a Few Hard Things deals with failure, unexpected barriers and breaking through them.
8. Action Steps, Tips, and Resources end our guide with some simple action steps you can do immediately and provides some useful resources you can use to learn more.

Each Chapter ends with a Pro Tip, like “Look outside the legal silo and learn the standard types of innovation and business models. Think more in terms of recombining ideas from other sources than creating completely new ideas out of thin air.”

Throughout his book Dennis draws on and makes references to the work of other innovation authors like Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation by William Duggan; Larry Keeley’s essential book, The Ten Types of Innovation; Greg Satell’s article The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve; Susan Cain’s book Quiet: The Power of Introverts; Mike Lombardi’s book Gridiron Genius; Oren Klaff’s Pitch Anything; and a number of others.

I personally enjoyed the Chapters covering techniques to optimize lawyer engagement; requests to make if you are put in charge; the use of Innovation Committees and Advisory Board; techniques to avoid with lawyers; the value proposition canvas tool; design sprints; the in-depth guidance on risk alignment and breaking through the many innovation barriers – as these are not topics that I find covered in books of this nature.

Finally, the last section including the 57 substantive tips and the recommended reading and website resources will keep me and I suspect any reader engaged for some time!
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blindenbach
5.0 out of 5 stars Successful innovation is about addressing what your customers need.
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020
Each of the 54 chapters are full of useful tips and important points that can make the difference between success and failure. The book ends with another 57 tips. So it certainly is worth the read! For an inexperienced innovator, it may be unclear where to start and a lot to digest. However, chapter 54 provides 3 clear action points to get you started. I would suggest starting with the second action point on that list: List 3 or more customers and stakeholders and engage in a conversation with them about their needs. That is also what I like most about the book, throughout, Dennis Kennedy keeps stressing the importance of involving your customers. Successful innovation is not about what you can do as a lawyer, but about figuring out and addressing what your customers need.
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