The first best practice in our Contract Management Best Practices series requires leveraging a centralized and secure contract repository. Relying on manual and disparate systems - such as shared drives, emails, and spreadsheets – can cause you to fall into contract mismanagement pitfalls. Discover how contract management software can empower you to leverage a centralized and secure electronic contract repository.
Contract management professionals of all types are in the age of digital transformation. Organizations need to correctly leverage contract management tools to adapt successfully. As with any practice, mistakes in contract management are quite possible. Contract management teams leveraging obsolete, manual methods are even more likely to commit CLM errors – resulting in contract lifecycle bottlenecks, missed key dates and milestones, and lost revenue. Mistakes in contract management must be avoided. Read this blog to discover six common mistakes in contract management – and how they can be evaded with the help of contract management software.
Professionals engaging in the contract management process can find themselves facing a myriad of challenges. Many of these challenges are born from a decentralized strategy and a lack of automated contract lifecycle management tools. Read this blog to discover five common contract management challenges and five leading solutions to those problems.
Clause libraries have proven incredibly useful for advanced legal operations and contract lifecycle management – if appropriately implemented. Unfortunately, your organization can mismanage your clause library with antiquated technology, manual clause tracking and clause storage, and the lack of an expeditious way to leverage clauses during contract authoring and contract negotiation. Luckily, you can supercharge your clause library with user-friendly and robust contract management software. Here's how.
Contract management teams hold a lot of responsibilities throughout the life of a contract. Streamlined and organized contract collaboration is key to CLM success. Without a clear-cut understanding of how the contract process should occur, contract management teams can encounter unnecessary contract risk, contract lifecycle bottlenecks, and decreased revenue. As such, we have outlined the responsibilities of a contract management team and how these responsibilities can be centralized and organized with leading contract management software.
2021 has arrived, and with it comes new innovations to your contract management software processes. Keeping this in mind, we have outlined six critical contract management tools that your organization should equip itself with to stay ahead of future-minded contract management best practices in 2021 and beyond.
This blog post was updated on March 25, 2021.
The terms "contract management" and "contract lifecycle management" may at first seem interchangeable. However, there are clear differences between the two. Organizations looking for opportunities to streamline contract processes, increase revenue, improve compliance, and maintain security must develop an understanding of the differences between contract management and contract lifecycle management so that - when the time is right - they can adeptly leverage contracts to achieve organizational goals and reach new heights in contract administration.
Managing various real estate contracts can be challenging, especially when relying on disparate methods such as wet-signatures, paper contracts, shared drives, filing cabinets, and paper-based negotiations. Whether you’re a real estate broker, real estate agent, property manager, or other real estate contract management professional, a centralized contract management software platform with specific, value-driven KPIs can significantly streamline your contract lifecycle management processes – reducing contract mismanagement and saving you valuable time. Read on to learn about three real estate contract management software KPIs for success.
