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One of the sustaining challenges in almost any business is managing the variability of the business cycle. For lawyers this may mean managing both the variability of our clients’ business cycles, as well as the spiky demands created by complex litigation, regulatory investigations, significant mergers and acquisitions, etc. Increasingly, technology, and technology based services, can help attorneys handle the ebbs and flows of their practices.
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Periodic updates to the index may be found at www.legaltechguidebook.com/productindex.
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See, also, our discussion of process capability in Chap. 17—Effective Supervision.
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We refer to “repeatability,” but this may also be termed “reliability” in other process management texts.
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See, also, our discussion of DMAIC in Chap. 13—Achieving Consistency.
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See, Chap. 15—Effective Supervision.
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See, Appendix D. Case Study—Contract Management Meets M&A.
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Williams, K., Facciola, J.M., McCann, P., Catanzaro, V.M. (2017). Managing Variable Needs. In: The Legal Technology Guidebook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54523-3_16
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