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Forum news
17 Jun 2022
2023 marketing budgets higher at 60% of firms
2023 marketing budgets will be higher than 2022 at 60% of firms, with none reducing budgets, according to a recent Forum poll. Marketing expenditure and headcount have increased at 80% and 50% of firms respectively since pre-pandemic. Also covers the main gaps for marketing & BD experts between current and ideal activities.
Read more15 Jun 2022
Award winners announced
The winners of the Forum's 2022 Management Excellence Awards were annnounced at the ceremony held on the Remo platform. Nick Owen CBE was awarded the Exceptional Achievement Award, with Shoosmiths the only firm to win more than one category.
Read more20 May 2022
Firms are failing to confront underperformers
Respondents in a recent Forum survey felt that their firms had more underperformers than typical firms, with 50% of firms failing to confront underperformers in a spirit of openness and candour. The most popular remedies are training, voluntary departures and re-invigorating moderate performers.
Read more06 May 2022
Greater clarity over post-Covid employee benefits
Key employee benefits remain a relaxed dress code, wellness programmes, mentoring, and health screening. More firms are providing more people with these benefits compared with pre Covid, according to a recent Forum poll. The other key change is time spent in the office. Currently 50% are commuting less than three days a week - this was expected to be just 30% post Covid in the 2021 survey.
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Managing Partners' Forum Awards 2022
We will announce the shortlisted firms in early April
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Forum quarterly tracker
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Re-tuning your Firm videos
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Re-tuning your Firm - full show
Re-tuning your Firm - Episode 63
Episode 63 of Re-tuning your Firm. Panel: Jeremy Beard of Haysmacintyre; Dana Denis-Smith of Obelisk Support; Anne Harnetty of Johnson Beaumont; and Francesca Lagerberg of Grant Thornton; Includes findings of poll on ESG maturity. Hosted by Richard Chaplin
Date recorded: 12 November 2021
Transatlantic show
Re-tuning your Firm - Transatlantic - Episode 1
Episode 1 of Re-tuning your Firm - Transatlantic. Panel: Francesca Lagerberg of Grant Thornton; Dr Larry Richard of LawyerBrain; Larry Stroud of Korverge, and Sebastian Hartmann of KPMG. Includes findings of poll comparing the impact of lockdown between the continents. Hosted by Richard Chaplin
Date recorded: 29 September 2021
Awards
Best solutions for clients - Awards 2021
Mark Grayson, COO at BCLP Cubed, on the winning submission for the Best Solutions for Clients category at the 2021 Awards. More
Date recorded: 10 June 2021
Summits
Fast-track Innovation™ - session 2
Fast-track Innovation™ - Session 2 - Where and how best to deploy design sprints (Ian Jeffery, Becky Shields, Rosemary Nunn, Marcus Dimbleby and Nigel Spencer)
Date recorded: 17 March 2021
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Friday 08 July 2022
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Friday 15 July 2022
Recent poll findings
Quarterly tracker
Firms remain bullish with 70% to 80% expecting expansion and few expecting contraction over the next year in activity levels, headcount or new work flow. Over 90% of people will be working from home for at least half the time.
Impact of lockdown - Transatlantic show
Europeans view the lockdown in more positive terms, are less panicked by Covid and more relaxed over returning to the office. Happiness levels decreased less at European firms, but more mental health issues surfaced.
Cyber security
Lack of expertise, poor communications and cultural resistance are the most common risk indicators. Ransomware attack recovery plans need a lot of work!
Usage of new technologies
Financial management has the greatest usage, followed by services delivered to clients, then marketing and new business generation, then influencing innovation, then knowledge management, then people management and finally strategy development.
The greatest benefit I get from the Forum is having the exposure to new thinking, new ideas and new solutions to the challenges we all face as fellow professionals.
Roy Welsby Partner Quality Ethics & Excellence, Grant Thornton