The legal department of 21st century has been tasked with overseeing an increasingly complex array of tasks, and frequently with stagnant or diminishing resources. If progress is humanity’s ability to complicate simplicity, then innovation is its ability to turn complication into usable information and tools. Or to use one of the most tired phrases in the business space, to “do more with less.”
In our technology-obsessed culture, “innovation” is evocative of slick user interfaces or touchscreen displays. But true innovation, as it turns out, is really about approaching a fundamental issue with a new vision or perspective. Having the strength and forethought to bring that new way of thinking into your team’s day-to-day operations is also paramount.
