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It’s no secret that there’s been an explosion of curiosity within the authorized operations area lately. A lot in order that we’ve even bought our personal cliches!
Right here, we carry you our favourite — and not-so-favorite — phrases we regularly encounter, match for a sport of Authorized Ops Bingo.
- “I do know our processes are inefficient, however it’s how we’ve at all times carried out it!”
- “We’re a small firm. We don’t want to fret about operations and expertise.”
- “We don’t have time for streamlining our processes. We’re too busy placing out fires.”
- “Why do we have to put money into authorized spend evaluation after we already know we’re spending an excessive amount of on authorized charges?”
- “Why rent a authorized operations skilled after we can simply wing it?”
- “Organising this new system will save us numerous time, however we’re too busy, and we don’t have the funds!”
- “Strategic planning takes an excessive amount of time. We want to simply wing it.”
- “If we implement an data governance coverage, I gained’t be capable to discover previous emails and paperwork.”
- “We now have a repository, however we additionally save issues to our desktop.”
- “Our legal professionals will solely work in Phrase, however we need to implement an in depth metrics program.”
- “We now have authorized ops. We carried out eBilling.”
- “We don’t want an consumption system. That may get in the way in which of relationship constructing.”
- “Authorized Ops professionals make how a lot?! However I don’t even pay my legal professionals that!”
- “However our firm/division is completely different…”
- “Our shoppers insist on white glove service.”
- “We’ve already cleaned up our templates. They’re ok.”
- “Fastened charges are too difficult. We’ll simply cost hourly.”
BONUS ROUND: Shouting “Bingo!” after one in all these will double your prize!
- “Low-hanging fruit”
- “Synergy”
- “Worth-add”
- “Greatest practices”
- “Paradigm shift”
- “Out-of-the-box pondering”
- “Streamline”
- “Disruptive expertise”
- “Win-win”
- “Thought management”
- “Metrics & information analytics”
- “Course of enchancment”
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Stephanie Corey is a co-founder and CEO of UpLevel Ops. Stephanie additionally co-founded LINK (Authorized Innovators Community), a authorized operations group completely for skilled, in-house professionals. She beforehand based the authorized operations commerce group CLOC (Company Authorized Operations Consortium) and is a former govt member. Please be happy to contact and connect with her on LinkedIn.