Bøger af Norman Clark

The legal services industry is changing and, for most law firms, the greatest challenge is to remain competitive and profitable. This Special Report presents practical strategies to help law firms protect and sustain their profitability as shifting client expectations, advanced technology and global influences alter the status quo. Authors Norman Clark and Lisa Walker Johnson demonstrate that although the traditional factors influencing profitability remain valid, new strategies must be adapted in order to meet new financial realities. Key topics include:Changes in the legal services industryPricing, productivity and cost managementStaff compensationThis report highlights what sustainable profitability really means and how it can be achieved in any law firm.

A major problem of conventional economic theory as applied to long-run economic change is its unduly narrow and static character, which compromises its capacity to handle conceptually a social process inherently systemic, complex and dynamic. At the same time there is a growing realization in relevant government and industrial circles (reinforced by the example of Japan) that effective economic policy-making needs a strategic, and therefore a technological, content. Long-Run Economics suggests a more realistic conceptual framework for the analysis of economic and technological change. Borrowing from other disciplines, such as sociology, psychology and biology, the authors develop a model that is evolutionary and systemic in character. Special emphasis is given to the role of information flows in the innovative process, while the overall argument is illustrated by two case studies, photovoltaics and fuel ethanol. Finally, the book stresses the strategic importance of science and technology policy and the role of appropriate institutions in facilitating long-run economic change.

This paper is based upon a consultancy report prepared for ITDG on behalf of the Government of Botswana. The author states the case for the establishment of a Science and Technology Council for Botswana and attempts to assess the wider implications for other developing countries.