#LMA22 Preview: How to Stop Random Acts of Technology

The Annual Conference Advisory Committee (ACAC) has been hard at work, putting together insightful content for LMA’s Annual Conference at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas (March 21-23). ACAC member Rachel Shields Williams had the opportunity to sit down with two speakers, Ann Meyer (Fisher Phillips) and Gordon Braun-Woodbury (Calibrate Strategies), about what attendees can expect from their session “What Are We Solving For? How to Stop Random Acts of Technology,” in which they will discuss the business problems technology is supposed to address, how to evaluate a current MarTech stack and more.

Who should attend this session?

While preparing for our session, we found an interesting statistic from Gartner’s 2020 report on marketing technology: “Marketers at 367 large corporations believe they are using less than two-thirds of their MarTech stack’s capability.” This session is designed for leaders who want to get more out of their legal marketing technology but are not sure how to do so. This program will also be helpful to marketing leaders who are struggling to understand where to start in improving their organizations’ marketing technology.

What will attendees take away from your session?

Attendees will have a framework for thinking through the real business problems that can be solved by marketing technology — how to understand and leverage your existing technology, how to change your technology without starting over and why random acts of marketing technology are so common.

What is an example of a random act of technology, and what are other common technology misconceptions in a law firm?

When we talk about random acts of technology, we are referring to purchasing technology without thinking about how it will be deployed or interact with your current systems, as well as purchasing without talking to users to establish their real-life needs from a new system. We’re also referring to the most common act, “the shiny object syndrome,” in which a firm buys a platform based on cool features, rather than a realistic analysis of requirements.

A common misconception is that a single product will solve all of your use cases, or that buying the latest technology will solve a problem. You often need to look at people, processes and data before deploying a tech solution.

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