Process Improvement Award Winner: Vandana Dhamija for HARMAN
Honoring advances in Legal Procurement (September 6, 2017)
New York, NY – The Buying Legal Council, the international trade organization for legal procurement, announced today the winners of the first-ever Legal Procurement Awards at the 2017 Buying Legal Council North America Legal Procurement conference.
The best industry initiatives in five areas of legal procurement were awarded:
2017 Award Winner Best Use of Technology: onit for ADM
2017 Award Winner Collaboration: GlaxoSmithKline; Honorable Mention: ABB
2017 Award Winner Innovation: GlaxoSmithKline
2017 Award Winner Process Improvement: Vandana Dhamija for HARMAN
2017 Award Winner Teamwork: Vodafone; Honorable Mention: Boehringer Ingelheim
“We wanted to identify and acknowledge best-in class leaders in legal procurement,” says Dr. Silvia Hodges Silverstein, executive director of the Buying Legal Council. “Each award winner and honorable mention not only succeeded in their areas, but surpassed the current status quo of the discipline. These leaders in legal procurement are at the forefront of new developments. We all do well learning from them and getting inspired by them.”
Submissions for the awards were entered in a blind peer-review. All decisions were made unanimous among the judges, all of them legal procurement professionals.
Process Improvement Award Winner: Vandana Dhamija for HARMAN
With Vandana Dhamija’s help, HARMAN successfully transformed its global timekeeper rate review process. The project was developed and implemented in only three months on a very small budget, despite its global reach of 190 firms. Dhamija and HARMAN incorporated data analysis into the decision-making in addition to extensive training and support, developed detailed supporting guides, templates, dashboards, and reports, and managed to strike a balance between enforcing policy and maintaining cordial, positive relationships. This ensured quick and successful implementation of the new process by HARMAN’s internal legal team and its external legal service providers.