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Ian BryceAugust 18, 2025

What Is Contract Management? A Guide to CLM and AI Best Practices for 2025

Discover how AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) transforms contracts into a board-level control point. Learn best practices for 2025 to cut risk, boost compliance, and protect margins.

Ian BryceJune 3, 2025

8 Contract Management KPIs Legal and Procurement Teams Should Track

Learn how legal and procurement teams can track, measure, and report contract KPIs. Discover 8 key metrics that support better risk, compliance, and CFO insights.

Rod LinsleySeptember 24, 2024

How to Write Requirements for a Contract Lifecycle Management System

Capturing your business's requirements for a contract management solution accurately is vital to make sure you avoid buying the wrong system. This article, along with our free Excel Requirements...

Ian BryceJune 25, 2024

GDPR Compliance in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Discover how to manage GDPR compliance for vendors and contracts with advanced AI solutions. Learn practical strategies to protect data and meet regulatory requirements.

Daniel BarnesJuly 29, 2022

What to do in your first 30 days as a Contract Manager

Contract Managers have a huge role to play in any organisation. Discover the steps you need to take in your first 30 days to be successful within the role.

Rod LinsleyJuly 8, 2022

The Importance of Contract Reporting

Contract reporting relies on situational awareness and visibility of your portfolio - find out how to get started.

Ian BryceDecember 21, 2021

How to assess your Contract Management capabilities

How do your business's current contract management capabilities measure up? What are the steps to take to unlock the value in your existing contract set? Here we explain how the Gartner maturity...

Ian BryceDecember 17, 2021

10 questions to ask when buying a contract management solution

When you're in the buying process for a contract management solution, it can be easy to overlook some details which later turn out to be important. Use our quick checklist to make sure you're asking...

Patrick O'ConnorDecember 6, 2021

You Don't Contract with a Contract

Discover three trends that all businesses are facing, why they need a business-wide CLM solution and what it means for contract management.

Shannon SmithJune 8, 2021

The importance of Ownership in Contract Management

Discover why you need to assign Contract Ownership throughout your organisation and how it can help drive better results.

Rod LinsleyApril 19, 2021

Contract Management Strategies: The importance of policies, processes and people

In the final part of our Contract Management Strategy series, discover how and why you need to align your policies, processes and people for the best outcomes.

Rod LinsleyApril 15, 2021

Contract Management Strategies: Driving accountability for contract outcomes

In the second instalment of our Contract Management Strategy Series, we take a look at the steps your business needs to take to drive accountability for contract outcomes and maximise value.

Rod LinsleyApril 12, 2021

Contract Management Strategies: Creating a single source of truth

In the first of our Contract Management Strategies Series, we take a look at the steps your business needs to implement to create a single source of truth for its contracts.

Ian BryceFebruary 18, 2019

Six ways your contract management processes are costing your business money

Poor contract management can cost businesses significant amounts of money in lost revenue and wasted resources. However, it's not always straightforward to find and fix the root causes of these...

Rod LinsleyNovember 5, 2018

How to Build a High-Performing Contract Management Team for Your Business

What are the key attributes and skills you need for a high-performing contracts management team? Here we recap the desired characteristics, functional skills and critical knowledge required and...

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