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===Propositions=== | ===Propositions=== | ||
*What is the ''[[purpose]]'' of the legal department? Wider: what is the purpose of any part of the [[federation]]? | *What is the ''[[purpose]]'' of the legal department? Wider: what is the purpose of any part of the [[federation]]? | ||
*The business is not | *'''Who is your client'''? The business is not your only client. In fact, it is barely a client at all. “Sure, whatever, go for it but just be quick about it and don’t upset my client”. More important client [[stakeholder]]s are: credit, operations, chief operating office. | ||
* | *'''Who, ''within'' your client, is your client'''? Are you getting calls from contractors in Hyderabad? Rather than throttling legal demand by charging for it, why not do that structurally, but limiting who — what grade — is allowed to seek it? | ||
*What is your product? The document is not the product. The lawyer is not the product. | |||
*What is the problem: distinguish between problems and symptoms. Inanimate objects — like documents, and templates — are rarely problems: they are ''symptoms'' of problems. Formal structures are rarely problems (or even all that relevant). Problems arise in interactions For example: a crappy document | |||
*Is what we focus on really the problem? | |||
===What is the general systems unit?=== | ===What is the general systems unit?=== | ||