Better from the inside: A video series — part four, “Collaborate”
Bringing others into the heart of processes helps drive that process and instils a greater sense of partnership, says Karl Southern, client advisor at LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions. Some of the benefits of collaboration include: fulfilling obligations, saving time, reducing case durations and providing a better service.
It’s easy to think we do processes alone, without assistance from others, particularly those outside your organisation. It doesn’t have to be that way. Process optimisation should work on collaboration in the same way:
- Do we need to do it? (If so, carry on. If not, bin it).
- Can we automate it? (Or at the very least, automate telling them they have to do something).
- Do we have the right person to do the task? (Or could the collaborator do it?).
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For many of the SME law firms we work with, this autumn is the first time they will support trainees through the SQE. The concerns we hear are consistent — firms don’t feel they know enough about the SQE, most don’t have a learning and development team and partners are already stretched. Those concerns are […]
Is your law firm ready for the next decade?
Almost half of respondents to research into the Welsh legal sector are uncertain whether their current business model will remain sustainable over the next ten years. For managing partners, it raises important questions about succession, ownership, and retirement, as well as how to fund growth and prepare the firm for its next stage. The Welsh […]