How to Manage Your Contracting Standards
Contracting standards are a formalisation of the positions an organisation might and should take in respect of many aspects of contracts it …
Read moreContract Management Strategies: Driving accountability for contract outcomes
The success of a business is inextricably linked to the success of its contract outcomes. If obligations aren’t fulfilled, or the performanc…
Read moreContract Management Strategies: Creating a single source of truth
Managing contracts is an ongoing task with many moving parts, especially for businesses that have complex portfolios, engage suppliers that …
Read moreWhy Contract Analysis is a Game Changer
Depending on its size, age and industry sector, an organisation can have hundreds to hundreds of thousands of active contracts. Managing the…
Read moreManaging Contract Disputes
A dispute is a disagreement over something. A disagreement is a difference of opinion, but not all such differences result in a dispute.
Read moreAn Introduction to Contract Ambiguity and Obscurity
An old proverb says that bad things come in threes.
Read moreCCPA in 2020 - Is Your Business Ready?
With the gestation period of a sperm whale almost behind it, yet strangely enough, still slightly undercooked, the California Consumer Priva…
Read moreHow to Manage Contract Volatility
There always seems to be a handful of trouble-makers. Going off on a tangent, going against the flow, resisting change or seemingly always n…
Read moreHow to manage supplier performance
Maybe you saw poor supplier performance coming right from the start but you went ahead anyway because there was no other choice.
Read moreHow To Enhance Your Time-to-Contract Process
Time-to-contract is the period between agreeing a deal and signing the contract that formalises the arrangements and allows the deal to beco…
Read moreHow Proverbial Wisdom Can Help Improve Contract Risk Mitigation
A proverb is a succinct, condensed nugget of folk wisdom which may be hundreds or even thousands of years old. Learned from often bitter exp…
Read moreHow To Conduct A CLM Maturity Assessment
Previously, we've discussed the Capability Maturity Model and applied it to Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM).
Read moreRFP Evaluation Guide 3 - How to evaluate and score supplier proposals
In this article, we'll outline the key concepts and activities involved in the next stage of the process - evaluating and scoring each propo…
Read moreHow to turn your Contract Management System requirements specification into an RFP
Previously in the Gatekeeper blog, we’ve provided a number of articles to help outline the process for implementing a Contract Management Sy…
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