e-Conveyancing: Disrupting Lawyers
COAG reforms aren’t a model of productivity and service improvement. One need only look at the boxticking festival that is the National Quality Framework that governs child care.
But you can legitimately hold out hopes for a disruptive kick to legal and conveyancing productivity with the new national scheme. Basically it is a uniform e-bureaucracy interface that also allows for integration to external conveyancing systems – wherein lies the hope for improved productivity.
All the professions need a kick to enter the industrial age, and this may be one, especially for general solicitors.
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First Steps to Better Service Delivery
There is no basis for claiming government must actually deliver services - only that it ensures they are delivered. The IPART review due in September is a great chance to address long term public sector delivery problems. If only BOF has the guts to sell and then execute the review findings. -
All The Wrong Innovation
Politicians and academics love the “test tube, circuits and buildings” view of innovation. You know, innovation that involves universities, laboratories, factories and photo opportunities. But innovation is just change. It’s doing something different in such a way that it develops a new product that meets someone’s needs, or delivers an existing product using fewer resources. […]