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For any organisation juggling multiple supplier contracts, the need to take an agile, collaborative approach to contract management is crucial. Adopting software that suits a variety of purposes for a multitude of users, both within and beyond procurement and contract management teams, [...]

Author: Teresa Nagle All major software suppliers have now pretty much moved into the cloud. That is they are now service-providers rather than product-suppliers. A world of change. A world of difference. Yet, many software customers are still thinking through the pros and cons of cloud v [...]

Author: Silke Therhaag With expectations increasingly growing upon Councils external resources and customer expectations, so are expectations upon their procurement teams building up rather exponentially. The procurement functions in the local government sector are faced with a number of [...]

Author: Jonathan Dutton, FCIPS   As the former founding CEO of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Australasia (CIPSA), Jonathan Dutton has a unique perspective on the world of procurement and contract management in this region. We sat down for a Q&A session with Jonathan [...]

Author: Dr Sara Cullen, Managing Director, The Cullen Group Agile is everywhere now, having long ago escaped the domain of IT projects.  We want to be agile organisations and have agile providers to meet the demands of today’s agile businesses.  We want things done fast, we want flexibility and [...]

Author: Kerrie Anson, Senior Consultant, Project and Change Management with ArcBlue Consulting If you believe the statistics published over the past few years, somewhere between 60 and 70 per cent of change initiatives fail. We have all experienced these failed programs, and there is no doubt [...]

  Given the potential financial payoff from large projects and contracts, it’s easy to see how smaller contracts can get lost in the ‘company soup’. Yet according to Open Windows account manager, Tania Scott, failing to pay careful attention to smaller contracts can result in more costly [...]

Some organisations only realise the importance of investing in contract management when it’s too late. They may have lost income or assets, wound up in court or wasted years fulfilling a contract that was entirely overlooked. Sometimes, they’ve felt the pain of experiencing all three scenarios [...]

Many organisations typically deal with hundreds of contracts a day: from the single paragraph that covers the charity chocolates in the tearoom to tomes drafted by lawyers with contingencies, milestones, deadlines, conditions precedent and subsequent, limits and rules, deliverables and [...]