Contract Insights

Contract redlining can prove to be a tedious process during negotiations. Coordinating with stakeholders during the contract redlining process using siloed processes such as MS Word documents with tracked changes, email communications, and shared drives can further delay contract negotiations.  Read on to learn how you can leverage future-minded contract redlining tools that centralize people, processes, and technology in a robust contract management software suite to help automate legal operations for contract lifecycle management success.

Clause management can be challenging for contract, procurement, and legal professionals.  Manual contract administration tools such as spreadsheets, emails, and disconnected software tools prove to be less than effective or efficient ways to generate optimal contract documents and clauses - and rarely lead to fast approvals.  Contract clauses can support standards and reduce contract risk and, when used to their potential, can positively impact your contract management process.  Learn how to master contract clauses in this blog.

If you are a new CobbleStone Contract Insight® user, we understand that learning the contract management software system can be intimidating at the outset.  You may be asking yourself, "How will I learn the system?"  "How will I remember everything?"  "Do I need to do all of this myself?"  Well, rest assured, CobbleStone® offers a myriad of training resources to ease concerns you may have!  CobbleStone can provide training resources to fit your needs - whether you are a brand-new client, a new user of the system, or simply want to brush up on a few features.

There are many moving parts involved with a contract, and it can be easy for your organization and counterparties to get mixed up at some point in the process.  This is why a contract checklist is an essential part of the commencement of a contract.  Your organization can utilize a contract checklist as a contract roadmap.  Read this blog for an overview of a contract checklist – as well as what solutions your organization can leverage to navigate that contract checklist successfully.