Simplifying the Contract Management Puzzle
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 [...]
What is it about Contract Management?
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 [...]
Agile Contracts vs Traditional Contracts – Contracting for Uncertainty
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 [...]
The secret to a successful change management strategy
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 [...]
The importance of smaller contracts
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 [...]
The business benefits of investing in contract management skills
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 [...]
Top 4 contracts risks and how to avoid them
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, [...]
Top 5 Hidden Contract Management Automation Features
The benefits of contract management automation are well known, yet many software programs out there only touch the tip of the iceberg in terms of automation features. Here we compiled a list of [...]
Contract Theories You Should Know
By Sara Cullen, High-Performance Outsourcing Expert In November 2016, the Nobel Economics prize was awarded to Professors Oliver Hart (Harvard) and Bengt Holmström (MIT) for their contributions [...]
