Best management of knowledge

For the firm that has integrated knowledge of contacts, markets and environmental trends into its planning and service delivery.

2007 WINNER

The team at Allen & Overy

Allen & Overy's KM approach distinguishes itself by its progressive embrace of wikis and blogs to support social networking within the legal environment; its deep involvement with professional learning and development; and, most importantly, its deliberate focus on clients including enablement of internal client teams and direct outreach to clients with innovative knowledge-sharing solutions tailored to specific client needs. The firm is to be commended for a mature and comprehensive KM program that encompasses people, process, and technology and demonstrates a deep understanding of the use of knowledge as a corporate and sector resource.

2ND PLACE AND EUROPEAN WINNER 2007

The team at A&L Goodbody

A & L Goodbody has reinvigorated its KM approach by focusing on aligning KM with the business, deeply engaging the firm’s leadership for sponsorship and support, making partners responsible for sharing information and developing knowledge resources, and incentivizing lawyers for participation. Moving beyond the baseline of established Know-How systems, KM now incorporates professional development and outreach to clients. The firm is to be commended for tackling the hard part of KM – the people and their engagement in KM – with energy and committment and developing a sound platform for ongoing success in the future.

3RD PLACE

BDO Stoy Hayward is to be commended for their innovative and world class use of technology to enable KM. Their cutting edge use of intranets, extranets and social computing enables the delivery of first class services by enabling information flow and exchange between firms, partners and clients, both in the UK and internationally. The emerging development of communities supported by business analysts indicates they are moving beyond technology and progressing towards the difficult task of embedding KM processes into the business and the culture. As they succeed in this expansion, they will be well positioned to fully capitalize on the potential provided by their strong technology platform.

ROLL OF HONOUR

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2006 - Linklaters

2005 - Accenture

2004 - Accenture

2003 - Ernst & Young

2007 SPONSOR

Noble Group is an independent investment banking group providing a unique range of professional services to fast growth small/mid cap companies and investment vehicles. The company has over 100 employees based in Edinburgh and London.