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Verification workflow automation

Summary

Reduce manual verification work by implementing purpose-built verification process management software.

Score breakdown

Category score is the share of that category's criteria answered yes. Contribution is that score times the category weighting.

  • Areas of focus0/1×5%0.0
  • Clients1/3×10%3.3
  • Expansion & global footprint0/3×25%0.0
  • Increasing revenue & profitability2/2×25%25.0
  • People & culture0/2×10%0.0
  • Innovation & service delivery1/2×10%5.0
  • Operational infrastructure0/3×15%0.0
Weighted score33.3

Criteria

Areas of focus

  • Improves growth in the areas of focus: no

Clients

  • Improves client satisfaction scores: yes
  • Improves client retention rate: no
  • Improves net promoter score: no

Expansion & global footprint

  • Supports expansion of regional offices: no
  • Supports expansion into new countries: no
  • Increases revenue from international markets: no

Increasing revenue & profitability

  • Improves fee earner revenue: yes
  • Improves utilisation rate: yes

People & culture

  • Improves employee engagement scores: no
  • Improves staff retention: no

Innovation & service delivery

  • Improves efficiency through adoption of legal technology: yes
  • Improves processes through automation: no

Operational infrastructure

  • Reduces operational footprint through optimisation and automation: no
  • Allows for risk mitigation: no
  • Aligns with the technology roadmap and future plans: no

Benefits

Fee earner time savings. Shorter elapsed verification time; better client communication; more consistent quality.

Resources required

Enterprise architecture team; information security team; procurement and risk team; project manager; change and adoption team

Review note

Good idea. Worth understanding whether the administrative time saved can genuinely be redeployed to fee earning work. Also worth deciding whether this is strategic or functional, and if functional, how benefits get tracked, realised and published.

Position

33.3

Weighted score out of 100

#14

of 28

Facts

Sponsor
Rupert Aldridge — Partner, Corporate Finance
Sponsor identified
Yes
Cost band
£50–£150Kmidpoint £100k
Benefits
High tangible benefitsscore 3
Complexity
Lowscore 1
Strategic alignment
26%
Schedule
Sep 2026 — Dec 20264 months
Delivery team
David Ashworth