Guest article from Richard Phillips - Operations Director (
www.outsec.co.uk)
The number of Internet support services for legal companies has increased dramatically in recent years. With the worsening economic conditions, all legal firms must now look to re-structure themselves in order to survive and the web offers a veritable smorgasbord of online business partners. Management needs now to concentrate on ‘core competencies’ and most other ancillary functions should be moved off-site. Greater efficiencies derived from using outsourcing will deliver a competitive edge and ensure that the company (or individual) will continue to be financially viable in a rapidly changing and increasingly volatile global market-place.
Automation of manufacturing and application of new technology has been on a steady upward path since Henry Ford came up with the conveyor belt principle, yet the outsourcing of basic office functions such as typing and general clerical work still seems new and unwelcome. The ‘global village’, coined by Marshall McLuhan in the 1960’s, is open for business but still shunned by many in the legal world. So why are not more people doing it? The resistance to change occurs for a variety of reasons: logistical IT issues and associated costs, perceived de-humanisation and loss of individual control with associated security issues, or a simple unwillingness to adopt new working practices.
The main benefit of outsourcing can be identified in just one word: flexibility.
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