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GLS Legal Department Business Plan™
A tool to help you produce your legal department business plan
The Problem
Your business is asking to receive a business plan for your legal department, perhaps as part of an annual department review / appraisal cycle or as part of a transformation initiative.
Related challenges include:
- you do not have a business plan template giving you a starting point
- you have not had to write a department business plan before
- your business expects you to lay out the future – without guidance as to what that may be
- how to define, capture and plan for extraordinary events / events outside your control
- pressure to demonstrate measurable performance & transformation
- academic -vs- realistic and deliverable strategic outcomes
- lack of time / resources available from your department to develop and deliver the plan
- imprecise available data for you to develop your strategy
- how to deal with “X-Factors” and moving goalposts
Wouldn’t it be great if you could access a turn-key and cost-effective business plan template that could help you define and deliver a robust departmental business plan?
The GLS Solution
GLS Legal Department Business Plan™ is an instruction manual with detailed guidance, templates and forms that GCs can use to efficiently create an annual business plan for their department.
GLS Legal Department Business Plan™ has been developed by former GCs to offer a functional tool that enables you to prepare an operational business plan for your legal department.
This solution helps you define (by providing working examples of) the common / suggested areas of legal department business planning, and suggested areas for focus and development.
GLS Legal Department Business Plan™ will assist you in defining a strategic plan for your legal department by helping you identify and outline operational planning, aims and objectives.
GLS Legal Department Business Plan™ will assist you perform and capture a SWOT analysis for your department.
GLS Legal Department Business Plan™ allows to prepare and plan for the future (perhaps to be used in conjunction with a budgeting or transformation exercise) and define operational efficiency for your department.
This solution also provides you with guidance on:
- communication and buy-in strategies for both your business and department; and
- how to align your department with overall business objectives.
In-house teams must be capable of demonstrating accountability for the management and control of their department (with a view to being optimally efficient), and the GLS Legal Department Business Plan™ provides you with a tool to do just that.
Problem Solved.
Solution Deliverables
| Comprehensive: | This solution will guide you through the key issues needed to drive efficient production of your annual business plan. |
| Structured: | This solution is well defined, with a clear navigational structure that dovetails with your wider organisation’s strategic needs. |
| User Friendly: | The solution is extremely user friendly, peppered with guidance notes and is drafted in plain English for use by anyone designated to do so. |
Pricing Comparison
| Big Law Review | US Rate | GLS Cost | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partner | $850 | $999 | 75min |
GLS RPLV Legal Operations Score
This solution’s GLS RPLV impact score:
| Resource Status: | Specialist | Repeater | Formative |
| Ease of Implementation: | Complex | Average | Easy |
| Value Demonstration/Visibility: | Low | Medium | High |
| Productivity Leverage Profile: | Low | Medium | High |
| IHL Line Optimisation: | Single | Multiple | All Lines |
IHL Critical Function Optimisation Targets
This solution enhances performance across the following critical in-house functions:
In-House Legal: Critical Functions / Processes
General Counsel
Legal Operations
Contracting
Legal Tech
Compliance
Managed Service
Human Capital
Data Analytics
Service Provider
Performance
Knowledge
Co. Sec.
IP
Internal Client
Disputes
GLS has identified 15 critical in-house processes/functions that are present in every world-class legal department. To learn what these functions are, their composition and how they interrelate to deliver efficient legal team performance outcomes - visit here.
