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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]]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 heads 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 [[3-PISA|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 [[Anti-money laundering|anti-moneylaundering]] 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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Therefore an [[audit officer]] reminds us of the {{hhgg}}’s Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal: a “mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you—daft as a brush, but very very ravenous”. | Therefore an [[audit officer]] reminds us of the {{hhgg}}’s Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal: a “mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you—daft as a brush, but very very ravenous”. | ||
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