The New GC Toolkit
Contributors
In April last year, US-based tech services provider DXC Technology was formed following the merger of The Hewlett-Packard Company’s enterprise division with Computer Sciences Corporation. It was the ideal opportunity for general counsel Bill Deckelman to sit down with senior management and establish what the legal function should look like.
‘To put things simply, it’s too hard for a GC to focus on the administrative side of things while also doing all the strategic stuff,’ says Deckelman. ‘Both the administrative and strategic pieces of the puzzle are becoming more complex and more labour-intensive, and GCs desperately need to think themselves out of the legacy models they have inherited, which were designed to serve completely different business and legal challenges.’
