Space explorers

For this inaugural issue we have a fantastic interview with business leaders at CMS – a firm that has clearly connected with what’s going on in the outside world to create a future-perfect office environment. So we’ll still profile people in your business with a brilliant story to tell. But we also want to speak to – and understand – the teams they manage.

Plus, we’ve spared a special thought for the time-poorest of you. You’ll find shorter summaries, best practice guides and ‘guru’ think-pieces rubbing shoulders with the in-depth good stuff. Lastly, we’d like to have a little bit more fun. Among other things, I’m going to be finding out what business leaders get up to after (or indeed, before) work.

JOURNEYS INTO SPACE

No longer is it heads down for the day at the engagingly modern workplace. Barbara Mendler and Razvan Cretu say a London office move inspired CMS to let people move more freely to benefit them, the firm and its clients

BRAINS OF THE OPERATION

The rise of the machines and business support professionals were high on the agenda at Briefing’s Operational Leaders in Legal 2015

Unifying force

Unified communications should be a clear crowd pleaser, and it offers great opportunity for law firms to grow in a more flexible way, says Andrew Pearce at Arkadin, an NTT Communications company