by Guest | 21 Jan 2021 | Our Insights
Repstor in partnership with Baskerville Drummond – Thursday, February 11 2021 at 10:30am GMT Microsoft 365 is fast becoming an unparalleled suite of business applications and services which is continually improving through significant and sustained investment....
by Guest | 19 Jan 2021 | Our Insights, Our People
Baskerville Drummond Consulting (BDC) has announced the appointment of Anthony Crammer as its new Virtual IT Service Manager. With the rapid growth in BDC’s Virtual IT Director (VITD) service in 2020, Anthony is coming in to boost the resources available to clients on...
by Nigel Stott | 19 Jan 2021 | Featured, Our Insights, TechWatch
It’s quite an exciting place for new technology in the legal sector. In this regular series, we’ll take a look at a variety of new technology in the marketplace that offers something different for law firms. Project Cortex To start with, a subject very close to my...
by Nigel Stott | 19 Jan 2021 | Our Insights
Business agility – the ability to respond to change is largely dependent on technology and the IT function. For any IT leader, the question of “how does my team respond to and manage constant business change” should be an ongoing theme. In the past few months,...
by David Baskerville | 12 Jan 2021 | Implementation, Our Experience, Selection
Download as a PDF Project type Managed service provider (MSP) selection; document management selection and roll‐out Scope When former Linklaters partners Michael Bott and Mirthe van Kesteren started the IT and systems planning for their new start‐up – Bott Van...
by David Baskerville | 7 Jan 2021 | Featured, Our Insights
Baskerville Drummond to Present the Art of Successful Project Implementations for Law Firms PracticeEvolve and InfoTrack have announced a new webinar running on the 21 January and 18 February featuring David Baskerville of Baskerville Drummond designed to help law...
by Richard Wyatt | 8 Dec 2020 | Our Insights
Since March 2020, we have become familiar with the “R” rate, which tells us whether the rate of infection for Covid-19 is increasing or decreasing. When “R” is greater than one, each infected person is infecting at least on other person and the rate of infection...
by Guest | 4 Dec 2020 | Downloads, Our Insights, Practice Primers
Microsoft 365 Practice Primer During this Practice Primer, we will focus on the three pillars of Microsoft 365 Security Collaboration Automation We will take a look at the product set in more detail and hope to provide you with an appreciation of how to use Microsoft...
by David Baskerville | 4 Dec 2020 | Our Insights
After the year everyone has had, we’re just pleased to have made it through! 2020 has actually been a great year for business in terms of new projects and clients – but Covid has understandably taken the edge off our happiness somewhat! We know it’s been...
by Nigel Stott | 1 Dec 2020 | Our Insights
Business Review In order to identify how M365 can be best used in a firm, we need to look at the way the firm works. This will be focused more on day to day operations rather than any aspects of legal workflow, though there are opportunities to enhance both. The firm...
by Nigel Stott | 25 Nov 2020 | Video
In this special Microsoft 365 episode, we talk to our go-to man for all things Microsoft, Nigel Stott. Discussion points include: How M365 is changing the legal system landscape How firms are typically using M365 today Barriers to greater utilisation and how to...
by Guest | 5 Nov 2020 | Our Insights
Our recent Lines on Online blog series looked at the practicalities around the new world of work. Now, in this guest blog from independent business consultant Peter Gill, we take a look at the possibilities going forward. For anybody in business, which will be...
by David Baskerville | 3 Nov 2020 | Our Insights, Practice Primers
Part 3 – Planning for project success. How best to prepare your firm, stakeholders and project teams for PMS change The need to change the PMS system is typically driven through the IT or Finance teams. This results in the project immediately becoming a...
by David Baskerville | 2 Nov 2020 | Our Insights, Practice Primers
Part 2 – The PMS selection process. Comparing traditional and alternative approaches to managing the lifecycle of a PMS procurement The traditional approach to PMS projects Project lifecycle Contemplation stage A PMS project typically starts with...
by David Baskerville | 1 Nov 2020 | Our Insights, Practice Primers
Part 1 – The PMS marketplace. Focusing on the recent market consolidation and how that is impacting technology choice and the selection process Introduction There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and law firms needing a new practice management system...
by David Baskerville | 8 Oct 2020 | Lines on Online, Our Insights
The fourth in a four-part series on online meetings – the tech, the etiquette, the challenges Other articles in this series have concentrated on some of the meeting solutions that are available and on the best way to run online meetings. This article will...
by David Baskerville | 6 Oct 2020 | Lines on Online, Our Insights
The third in a four-part series on online meetings – the tech, the etiquette, the challenges Since the arrival of Covid-19 and lockdown there has been a lot of discussion and articles about home working. Much of this has focused on home working from the...
by Guest | 5 Oct 2020 | Our Insights, Video
Any firm thinking about making a change to their PMS supplier or just interested in keeping tabs on the market might want to watch our two recent Baskerville Drummond @ Home video chats. These two PMS specials saw David Baskerville, Kevin Goosman and Nigel Stott...
by David Baskerville | 1 Oct 2020 | Lines on Online, Our Insights
The second in a four-part series on online meetings – the tech, the etiquette, the challenges When the UK first went into lockdown during March 2020, a huge emphasis was placed on the importance of online meetings. The business community as a whole had to...
by David Baskerville | 29 Sep 2020 | Lines on Online, Our Insights
The first in a four-part series on online meetings – the tech, the etiquette, the challenges The sudden requirement to use online meeting software was originally met with panic buying. Firms rushed just to get up and running, but now, six months into the...
