Historically, companies in the Professional Services sector did not need to innovate to survive. Instead, these providers competed for business based upon traditional measures such as experience and competency. Today's fast-changing world is causing constant disruption of business models and new technologies make the past way of doing things nearly impossible— now, innovation is inevitable.
Law firms are often structured in silos—groups of experts in a specific industry or geographical region— the whole organization is oriented around specialists. When a company needs new insights and ideas or when the clients you serve are pursuing new business models, how can an organization not just survive but thrive? Creative problem-solving and the collection of diverse ideas become crucial to offering the best possible client solutions and service.
It is important to engage employees in all regions of the world and across teams to harness your collective intelligence. When you extend this offering to your clients, you are better able to understand their needs and can co-create solutions. Idea campaigns and unbounded channels ensure collaboration from the right people on their corresponding initiatives and problems.
As in many sectors, law firms of all sizes across the world are looking for new and emerging tools and technology that can support automation and offer new ways of doing business. HYPE offers the ability to scout for new technology trends and companies, useful research, signals, and organize findings and relevant data on current and perspective partners.
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Historically, our local practice groups have operated as a ‘culture within a culture within a culture’. Our challenge was to break through barriers erected by a classic organizational structure that is common in legal firms and to re-imagine how we could create a modern ecosystem for ideation and collaboration. The PIE Team structure enables our firm to harness local practice expertise and insights from employees in all functions and all seniority levels – partners, legal services professionals, and trainees. As a result, our PIE Teams are at the forefront in leading our innovation mission, helping us benefit from the cross-firm collaboration and knowledge-sharing in our HYPE-powered Ideas Pathway platform.
In this case study, we look at how Linklaters partnered with HYPE Innovation to transition to a corporate culture that encourages and embraces an open, collaborative innovation environment.
We are all aware of the challenges when facilitating and delivering change in an organization, but how do you best approach innovation in large, global organisations? In this webinar, Grant Beecham will take you through how the innovation program at Linklaters is structured, and how they maintain our role as the catalyst for change, whilst empowering people to help deliver and breakdown silos.
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