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}}{{Buchstein}}’s audit [[:Category:Paradox|paradox]] observes that, should you use workflow tools, [[legaltech]] and automation to carry out rudimentary tasks they will, by their nature, force you into sub-optimal behaviour patterns. In other words a tool that is meant to ''save'' work and ''reduce'' anxiety actually creates ''more'' of it. | }}{{Buchstein}}’s audit [[:Category:Paradox|paradox]] observes that, should you use workflow tools, [[legaltech]] and automation to carry out rudimentary tasks they will, by their nature, force you into sub-optimal behaviour patterns. In other words a tool that is meant to ''save'' work and ''reduce'' anxiety actually creates ''more'' of it. | ||
Congratulations: you have implemented a new technology solution to help you regularise your review and completion of [[confidentiality agreement]]<nowiki/>s. It has been calculated, costed, banked and factored into next year’s legal budget that this tool will<ref>It absolutely won’t — you know that, I know that, everyone except the COO knows that — but this is not the point of the story here so bear with us.</ref> save the equivalent of 1.5 | Congratulations: you have implemented a new technology solution to help you regularise your review and completion of [[confidentiality agreement]]<nowiki/>s. It has been calculated, costed, banked and factored into next year’s legal budget that this tool will<ref>It absolutely won’t — you know that, I know that, everyone except the COO knows that — but this is not the point of the story here so bear with us.</ref> save the equivalent of 1.5 head counts over the forthcoming year, a “win” that has earned the legal operations team an [[industry award]] from ''Steer! Monthly'', the official periodical of [[Steerco|Worshipful Guild of Steering Committee Members]]. Elsewhere, unobserved, the firm’s dark universe of infrastructural bureaucracy has silently whirred into action. Approval subroutines have fired and launched escalations for the spend on the software vendor; a militarised third party information security analytics surveillance drone has departed form the loading bay; and a platoon of internal audit marines has fetched up on the legal department foreshore armed with quarterly certifications of compliance with money-laundering regulations and documentation, governing law, and process agency policies. | ||
The [[audit paradox]] is at the confluence of three streams of modern institutional thinking: | The [[audit paradox]] is at the confluence of three streams of modern institutional thinking: | ||
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*[[Substance and form]] | *[[Substance and form]] | ||
*[[Computer-based training]]{{Ref}} | *[[Computer-based training]] | ||
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{{c|Paradox}} | {{c|Paradox}} | ||