MINI MBA
This year, we're introducing a special theme for ILTA '09: the "ILTA Mini MBA." Eleven topics have been selected from the Business Strategy, Executive, Finance and Leadership tracks to create a comprehensive program focusing on the business side of legal technology for the legal technology executive. The sessions run through the four days of the conference. Speakers in these sessions will have the right fit of experience, presentation skills and appeal for the target participants: legal technology executives. Although ILTA will not offer CLE credit, an ILTA certificate of completion will be offered. Participants may seek CLE credit on their own.
Topics include: Benchmarking; Situational Leadership; Improving Operational Excellence; Law Firm Economics; Image Coaching; International Business Strategy; Critical Thinking; Strategic Planning.
Mini MBA Sessions (see "Plan Your Week" to view details of the sessions):
FIN1
Benchmarking in a Changing Economy
FIN3
Financial Management, Before and After the Challenging
EXEC2
Situational Leadership
EXEC4
Improving Operational Excellence with Best Practice and Technology
LEAD1
Sharon Swartworth Leadership Development Seminar: Ethical Leadership
BUS5
Legal Technology Strategy in a Downturn: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
MISC9
Social Networking Policies and Legal Implications
EXEC7
International Business Strategy in Small Doses
RISK2
Can Risk Management Help Grow a Firm’s Profitability, Even in Extreme Financial Conditions?
BUS7
Managing Perceptions of Value
PROF4
Enhance Your Strategic Planning Skills – Military Style
THEMES
There are a number of themes running throughout the conference sessions this year that cross many tracks. Sessions are identified under a theme.
Process or Procedural Improvements
Evaluation, implementation and improvement of products or approaches to maximize the success of legal processes and procedures supported by or to assist with technology.
Strategic
Challenges in crafting a corporate vision to plan for the future. Topics include trend analysis, compliance standards review, external and internal influences evaluation, policies and procedures maintenance as well as resource assessment.
Risk
Identification, analysis and assessment of unacceptable exposure to vulnerabilities; development of policies, procedures or other mitigation strategies to minimize physical, electronic and/or human security threats.
Profitability
Processes and best practices around budgeting, cost efficiencies, benchmarking and revenue generation.
Economic Challenges
Approaches, solutions or recommendations of how to operate during the current period of challenging economic change.
Marketing the Firm/Company
Marketing of the firm or corporate entity as well as how it is perceived to clients and the outside world.
SharePoint
Best practices, lessons learned and valuable insight in the use of Microsoft's SharePoint product.
Office 2007
Evaluation, implementation and best practices in the use of Microsoft's Office2007 suite.
SQL
Best practices, lessons learned and valuable insight in the use of Microsoft's SQL product.
Virtualization
Improving manageability, reducing hardware/data center footprints and increasing utilization in network resources such as servers, operating systems, storage and/or applications.