Shy Alter, CEO of ii3 Inc, announced today the addition of Don Oppenheimer to their Full Service Knowledge Management firm. "We are delighted to welcome Don to our growing team of experienced KM professionals," said Alter. "His practical experience and proven approach to knowledge management and technology deployment will strengthen our team and add to our U.S capabilities with the creation of a Boston office. Don brings with him over 15 years of management consulting experience as a former Partner at Mercer Management Consulting, a leading global strategy consulting firm. While at Mercer, Don consulted to Fortune 500 companies helping them manage and use information systems to gain sustainable competitive advantage. Don also has ten years of experience as a Chief Information Officer, including five years as the Chief Information and Knowledge Officer for Goodwin Procter LLP, a large U.S law firm. He helped to initiate and lead successful knowledge management programs at both Mercer and Goodwin Procter and as a consultant has helped define and build KM at numerous other professional service firms."

"ii3 offers the unique opportunity to join a team of KM professionals that can provide assistance to a wide range of businesses with the planning and implementation of practical knowledge management and technology solutions," said Mr. Oppenheimer. "They have an outstanding track record and a strong team culture. I look forward to working as part of this team, helping our clients leverage their collective knowledge and experience to achieve meaningful business results."

In addition to Mr. Oppenheimer’s experience in knowledge management, he has over twenty-five years of general management, information technology and organizational strategy experience. Recently, Mr. Oppenheimer has specialized in the selection and implementation of technology based solutions to support knowledge management. Over the last year, Mr. Oppenheimer has worked with three Toronto-based law firms in support of their knowledge management programs. His extensive experience with Microsoft SharePoint and Interwoven’s document management system compliments ii3’s deep experience in leading knowledge management platforms. He is a frequent speaker at knowledge management and technology conferences and has written articles for and been quoted in numerous business publications.

ii3 is a full-service knowledge management firm. ii3 collaborates with our clients to understand unique business needs and implement results-based KM solutions. ii3 delivers industry-leading expertise in strategic consulting and solution design, development and deployment. ii3’s clients are industry leaders that believe they can achieve a competitive advantage through a more effective application of knowledge.

For more information, please visit: www.ii3.com or email info@ii3.com

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Jamie Mackay, ii3 Inc., 866.671.3065, jmackay@ii3.com

"Implementing Hummingbird's DM was an important step in a long term strategy that will take our firm to the next level of efficiency. Using a paperless process for a few years has shown tremendous efficiency gains. Now with the addition of the DMS, we will be able to reuse intellectual property throughout the firm leveraging the knowledge power of the entire staff" says Javier Freixa, RSM Richter's Director of Systems & Technology. "We see adoption and utilization as an ongoing task that will increase the return on our investment, our professionals' efficiency, and most importantly, our clients' satisfaction."

"'If you build it they will come' does not apply to knowledge management solutions like document management systems" says Shy Alter, ii3's CEO. "RSM Richter recognizes this and is taking all the right steps to ensure that the system's utilization will achieve the promise of DMS – improved knowledge sharing, efficient information management, leveraging the firm's most important digital assets and tighter integration with business processes and other systems"

By collaborating closely with RSM Richter, ii3 will:

• Identify additional best practices for the utilization of the firm's document management system
• Identify 'deep adoption' areas that stand to benefit from this powerful tool
• Integrate and coordinate the document management system with RSM Richter's Intranet

"I’m very pleased to formalize my consulting partnership with ii3," said Mr. Friedmann. "ii3 does a lot of valuable KM work, especially in the legal market. I look forward to working even more closely with ii3's talented team to help our clients assess their needs and design and implement KM solutions." Mr. Friedmann and ii3 have collaborated on projects and initiatives for over two years prior to formalizing this arrangement. He joins Joshua Fireman, former McCarthy Tetrault LLP Knowledge Director, in ii3's KM practice for the legal market.

Mr. Friedmann has over fifteen years experience in knowledge and information management in the legal market plus 10 years experience working with Fortune 500 companies in strategy consulting, software marketing, and economic analysis. He is a frequent speaker at legal technology conferences such as the ABA TechShow and LegalTech. He has also contributed numerous articles to legal industry publications including American Lawyer Magazine, KM World, Law Practice, Legal Times and NY Law Journal.

"Although document management and content management initiatives have taken hold in a variety of businesses over the past several years, their benefits have been variable," says Shy Alter, ii3's CEO. "We have found that most document management systems are purchased and installed with little concurrent business analysis and strategic planning."

"This means that business users are often simply presented with a new means of saving documents," adds Joshua Fireman, ii3's VP Market Development. "This is a change that they rarely equate to immediate improvements in their daily lives. In fact, those working with documents every day may consider DM to be an added burden rather than a beneficial addition to their workflow."

By collaborating closely with Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, ii3 will:

• Define document management as a disciplined business strategy with measurable objectives and benefits;
• Create a deployment strategy built on existing workflow;
• Simplify DM processes while laying foundations for future initiatives like collaboration; and
• Ensure that DM collects valuable information that will allow us to prevent "document overload" in later years of operation.

Joshua has participated in similar sessions with both the Toronto and New York KM groups since joining ii3. Prior to that, Joshua’s KM and legal experience saw him working with as a KM Director, a lawyer and in-house council in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal.

"Our work with ii3 will be the building blocks for our results-oriented knowledge management initiative", said Sandra Montanino, Goodmans' Director, Knowledge Management. "Goodmans focuses on business solutions, and ii3 understands the business of law."

Shy Alter, ii3's CEO, believes that Goodmans "is well positioned to gain quick benefits from more effective access to the firm's extraordinary knowledge resources - its lawyers and their work product."

Joshua Fireman, ii3's VP Market Development, adds that "Goodmans is in a unique position. The firm's leadership and practitioners are firmly behind KM as a business tool. Knowledge sharing is a cornerstone of the firm's culture, and our KM strategy will compliment and add value to existing collaboration and workflow."

ii3:
ii3 is a full-service knowledge management firm. ii3 collaborates with our clients to understand unique business needs and implement results-based KM solutions. ii3 delivers industry-leading expertise in strategic consulting and solution design, development and deployment. ii3's clients are industry leaders that believe they can achieve a competitive advantage through a more effective application of knowledge.

Goodmans:
Goodmans LLP is recognized internationally as one of Canada's premier transaction law firms. With a strategic entrepreneurial history and deal-making mindset, Goodmans lawyers deliver intelligent solutions, responsiveness, energy, talent, and determination to get the deal done. It's more than just legal services; it's strategic business advice.
For more information, please visit: www.goodmans.ca