Author profile
Ignaz Füsgen, EMBA
Ignaz Fuesgen is Managing Director of smartvokat, a Legal Engineering and Tech startup. With more than 20 years’ professional experience at international law firms and management consultancies in Europe and Sub-Sahara Africa, including KPMG/BearingPoint, Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Deloitte Legal, he advises clients on the transformation of legal services with respect to Legal Services Portfolio Management, Legal Project Management and digitisation. His passion lies with innovations related to “Access to Justice”.
Ignaz is an accredited Legal Project Practitioner (IILPM) and accredited trainer of the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM), as well as a certified Scrum Master (ScrumAlliance). He holds an Executive MBA from Carlson School of Management (Minneapolis, USA) and a Master of Business Administration from the Vienna University of Business and Economics (Vienna, Austria).
Contributions by the author in the LRZ
‘Legal Service Portfolio Management’ empowers corporate legal departments to address their most pressing strategic business imperatives, such as velocity, resilience, and agility. Analogies drawn from other disciplines, such as Finance, IT and Marketing, help to understand the opportunities and potential of the portfolio concept and offer a roadmap for legal teams. This article is meant to open the dialogue on the advantages of service portfolio approach for the management of corporate legal function.