Gartner's "Nexus of Forces" highlights the highly disruptive trends in technology right now. This presentation, given at LawTech Futures 2013, shows how those trends are affecting user expectations and the need for enterprise technology to focus on user experience and mobile optimisation.

1. LawTech Futures 2013
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30th April 2013, London
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2. Introduction
Stuart Barr
COO, HighQ
‣ Background in technology, social, legal
‣ HighQ is a leading provider of secure
enterprise collaboration and publishing
software to the legal sector.
Photo by Stuart Barr

3. 18 of the top 20 UK firms
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4. Gartner’s Nexus of Forces
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‣ Social
‣ Mobile
‣ Cloud
‣ Information

5. Social
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If what you are doing in IT or KM
doesn't have social in it then stop and
start again. It’s as simple as that.“
”Pete Williams, Deloitte

6. Accelerating adoption of social tools
‣ Increase workforce productivity
‣ Collaboration with colleagues & clients
‣ Project, matter & task management
‣ Share knowledge and best practice
‣ Break-down knowledge and data silos
‣ Reduce information & inbox overload
‣ Blur lines between intranet & extranet
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7. Mobile
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‣ Computers in our pockets
‣ We’re constantly connected
‣ We can communicate instantly
‣ The internet is at our finger tips
‣ Influences our habits & decisions
‣ Changes the way we live & work

8. Mobile
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Mobile computing is forcing the
biggest change to the way people
live since the automobile.“
”Gartner

9. Cloud computing
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‣ Reduce costs & time to market
‣ Increase flexibility & scalability
‣ Operational agility & efficiency
‣ Enables mobility & connectivity
‣ Business continuity & recovery

10. Raised expectations
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Today's highly mobile, social cloud
has set everyone's expectations
for how easy, powerful, and
simple IT can be. The genie will
never be put back into the bottle.
“
Dion Hinchcliffe

11. Combine consumer with enterprise
‣ Take best ideas from consumer tools
‣ Put them into the enterprise
‣ Add high-grade security and control
‣ Focus on user experience & innovation
‣ “The best of both worlds”
Our strategy
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12. Responsive web design
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‣ Web site that adapts to device
‣ Provides an optimal experience
on desktop, tablet and mobile
‣ Can reduce need for native apps
‣ Builds on “mobile first” strategy

13. HighQ Collaborate 3.0
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14. The future of collaboration
‣ Enterprise-grade security
‣ Mobile and tablet optimised
‣ Consumer-grade user experience
‣ Advanced document management
‣ Leading-edge social collaboration tools
‣ Unified internal & external collaboration
HighQ Collaborate 3.0
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15. Use cases
‣ Secure file sharing
‣ Client extranets
‣ Team collaboration
‣ Legal project management
‣ Communities of practice
‣ Enterprise social networks
HighQ Collaborate 3.0
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16. Demonstration

37. Questions
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