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It is a meaningless, [[modernist]] bumf. It suits only [[middle management]], whom it gives something to do, someone to chase, someone to [[audit]], an attestation to gather and a [[KPI]] to stick on the dashboard slide on the monthly about to the [[opco]] deck.  
It is a meaningless, [[modernist]] bumf. It suits only [[middle management]], whom it gives something to do, someone to chase, someone to [[audit]], an attestation to gather and a [[KPI]] to stick on the dashboard slide on the monthly about to the [[opco]] deck.  
 
===[[Key non-performance indicator|Key ''non''-performance indicator]]s===
But all is not lost. With a deft inversion we can set the management layer ''against'' itself. For while it may be difficult to explain how an inhouse lawyer ''does'' add value, it is a cinch to show all the things he must do, but in doing which he does ''not''. Lawyers are beset with [[Tick-boxes|boxes to tick]], forms to fill, processes to follow, policies to comply with and administrative tasks to carry out designed exclusively to satisfy management’s compulsion for ''counting formal things''.  
But all is not lost. With a deft inversion we can set the management layer ''against'' itself. For while it may be difficult to explain how an inhouse lawyer ''does'' add value, it is a cinch to show all the things he must do, but in doing which he does ''not''. Lawyers are beset with [[Tick-boxes|boxes to tick]], forms to fill, processes to follow, policies to comply with and administrative tasks to carry out designed exclusively to satisfy management’s compulsion for ''counting formal things''.