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== What the MBAs bring to the party == | == What the MBAs bring to the party == | ||
Now MBAs are not known for their imagination, but they have a long suit in reductionist analytical rigour and they do like an over-arching metaphorical schema. They see the “inhouse legal problem” may be impervious to front-on attack, but they can ''analyse'' it into submission. This they do by breaking down that intractable whole into [[Legibility|legible]], familiar parts that already exist in the MBA toolkit. Each of these components becomes its own little sub-component, with its own workstream, and workstream lead, going out and gathering evidence and, basically, getting in the way of the lawyers who are busily trying to execute on their time-worn business model. | Now MBAs are not known for their imagination, but they have a long suit in reductionist analytical rigour and they do like an over-arching metaphorical schema. They see the “inhouse legal problem” may be impervious to front-on attack, but they can ''analyse'' it into submission. This they do by breaking down that intractable whole into [[Legibility|legible]], familiar parts that already exist in the MBA toolkit. Each of these components becomes its own little sub-component, with its own workstream, and workstream lead, going out and gathering evidence and, basically, getting in the way of the lawyers who are busily trying to execute on their time-worn business model. | ||
Perversely, this slows lawyers down even further — every other day they are fending off a call from a well-meaning analyst asking for feedback on some innovation or other they didn’t ask for and have little interest in using — while the size of the legal operations team grows, and it foments its plans to entrench itself into the legal team. | |||
The legal work catalog, comprises the following components and opportunities: | |||
*Strategic planning | |||
*[[service delivery|Formulating models for legal service delivery]] | |||
*Project management | |||
*[[Triage|Triage management]] | |||
*[[Operationalisation|Practice operationalisation]] | |||
*Organisational optimisation | |||
*[[Knowledge management]] | |||
*Information governance | |||
*Vendor management | |||
*Finance management | |||
*Business intelligence | |||
*[[Continuing professional development|Training and personnel development]] | |||
*[[Legal technology|Technology infrastructure management]] | |||
Suddenly, the business of being an in-house lawyer is worthy of a modern military-industrial complex to support it. | |||
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