Contract Insights

Looking to elevate your productivity and value during contract management? Well, contract managers often find themselves juggling multiple responsibilities related to the contract lifecycle. Manually managing these responsibilities with outdated processes can lead to inefficiencies related to repetitive contract lifecycle tasks, confusing and disorganized contract storage, bottlenecked collaboration across teams, and more. But what if you had a configurable, tailored, and time-saving tool instead? To that end, here are three productivity hacks to help you stay efficient, organized, and ahead of the game.

Meet Evan J., the Video Production Specialist at CobbleStone Software, who has been a member of the CobbleStone^® family since February 2023. Recently, we interviewed Evan about his experience at CobbleStone. He kindly shared some insights into his role and advice for those considering a video production career in SaaS/contract management software.

Nearly every business relationship involves a contract. At the crux of every contract is back-and-forth negotiation and contract management. This chess-like undertaking requires purposeful and good-faith cooperation on both sides.

The cutthroat, 1980s Wall Street businessman approach of trying to steamroll one’s opponent into submission often depicted in movies does not reflect successful contract negotiation and contract management in real life. True contract negotiation requires active listening, considerate acknowledgment of both parties’ pain points, and the ability to forge a win-win agreement.

As such, here are 8 contract negotiation strategies to improve your contract negotiation and contract management processes.

Contract tracking can be a significant challenge for legal teams, contract managers, sales teams, and other industry professionals.  Manual contract management processes may suffice for organizations with low contract volume and contract complexity.  However, when the number of contracts increases to hundreds, thousands, and beyond, contract failure rates increase exponentially.  Read on to learn how to master contract tracking with leading contract management software.