What Agile Development Techniques Can Teach Us About Building Better Contracts

When designing a new widget, experienced product managers know that they can't slap a quality control process at the end of the design process ...

Why Visual Contracting Is an Emerging Paradigm in Business

In late 2017, a team of researchers discovered a 4,000-year-old Assyrian clay tablet at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Kültepe-Kanesh in Turkey. The ...

New Survey Reveals the Unrealized Value of Contract Management Software

This year, the Legal Department Operations Survey, conducted in partnership with Above the Law, asked respondents to rate their maturity in various areas of operation, ...

A 3-Step Plan for Bringing Order (and Simplicity) to Your Contract Template Library

When I speak to legal teams about their experiences deploying an enterprise contract management platform, one of the most commonly cited benefits is also ...

Enterprise Obligation Management Is Key to Driving Trust and Results

Contracts establish a working model for a business to reach a future desired state: They define the rules of business and how outcomes will be ...

When Should Contract Managers Get Involved in Sourcing? The Earlier the Better

I was reviewing my notes from the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting and the International Association of Commercial and Contract Managers (IACCM) Americas ...

5 Big Advantages of Contract-centric Sourcing

Contract-centric sourcing is an emerging paradigm in which companies use contract management software with robust sourcing capabilities to drive efficiencies, compliance and savings in their procurement process

How to Build Visual Contracts That Convey Commercial Value (and Make People Smile)

Image source: IACCM Two years ago, a working group at Airbus called ContractInnovators began investigating how they could design better contracts. As a use case, ...

What Does the Future Hold for Enterprise Contract Management? A Conversation with Forrester Research

A few weeks ago, Icertis hosted an in-depth conversation about Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) between Forrester Research's Andrew Bartels, one of the leading analysts ...

Brexit Will Have a Massive Impact on Contracts. Is Your Company Ready?

Last week, Icertis released new research that suggests Global 2000 companies doing business in the European Union can expect to have 1 in 10 contracts ...