Comments on: Alternative Billing – What Does It Mean For IT Staff? http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/01/alternative-billing-what-does-it-mean-for-it-staff/ A law blog written by someone from IT or an IT blog written by someone who works for a law firm Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:34:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Jason http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/01/alternative-billing-what-does-it-mean-for-it-staff/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Jason Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:01:46 +0000 http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/?p=58#comment-6 My guess would be the alternative would possibly be fixed price work or cost based on value. So the area that occurs to me is some kind of case budgeting. I have been involved in this type of system back in the late 90's and it uses past experience/cases to "cost" tasks. On a new case project management type planning is used and then the knowledge of the costs is applied. Allows accurate costing for fixed price work (also occurs to me now that you could look at the critical path and keep your expensive people on this alone) My guess would be the alternative would possibly be fixed price work or cost based on value.
So the area that occurs to me is some kind of case budgeting. I have been involved in this type of system back in the late 90′s and it uses past experience/cases to “cost” tasks. On a new case project management type planning is used and then the knowledge of the costs is applied. Allows accurate costing for fixed price work (also occurs to me now that you could look at the critical path and keep your expensive people on this alone)

]]> By: Brett Owens http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/01/alternative-billing-what-does-it-mean-for-it-staff/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Brett Owens Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:04:44 +0000 http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/?p=58#comment-5 Jason, great piece - completely agree that this is the perfect time for IT to shine - to show how technology can be leveraged to increase efficiencies and...dare I say it...even revenue! Any specific thoughts on how IT can/will support the alternative billing push? Jason, great piece – completely agree that this is the perfect time for IT to shine – to show how technology can be leveraged to increase efficiencies and…dare I say it…even revenue!

Any specific thoughts on how IT can/will support the alternative billing push?

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