A faster horse: Difference between revisions

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}}How many keen [[reg tech]]<ref>As opposed to [[legal technology|''leg''tech]], right?</ref> startups and management strategies are dedicated to automating, digitising, and  triaging an ''existing legal process.''  

The solutions we see, be they [[document assembly]], [[chat-bot]]s, right-shoring, [[outsourcing]] — take an existing legal process (say contract [[negotiation]]) and try to enhance it by substituting cheaper, faster, components (be it hardware, software or meatware) but never once looking at ''[[waste]]''.

But make no mistake, folks: you still have a horse. In fact, a donkey.

The fastest donkey in the world still won’t go fast. Your donkey will be slow, ''because donkeys are slow''. Your donkey will expensive, because ''donkeys are expensive''. Painting go-faster stripes on it and sticking it in a brownfield paddock behind an an industrial estate in the outskirts of [[School-leaver from Bucharest|Bratislava]] won’t change that. You could have the finest ostlers, stable-hands, jockeys and breeders, and you could pay them a pittance, ''but you would still have a donkey''.

 

In fact, since your standard forms were not [[Design|designed]] so much as they ''accreted'' over the years, settled on by [[committee]], reflecting the manifold fears, hobby-horses, bonnet-bees, misconceptions and fleeting fripperies of a succession of mediocre risk managers, all of whom are now lost to posterity, even while their proclivities litter the fossil record, not even a donkey but a camel. A ''pantomime'' camel.