Imagine seeking key data in your legacy contracts, but you lack technology solutions to pull out information you need to make best decisions, find revenue, reduce risk, and ensure compliance. 

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not turbulence itself, but to act with yesterday’s logic” – Peter Drucker

Investment – Demystifying Emerging Technologies with Andy Daws, Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer, Kim Technologies and Wendy Lawson, Senior Director, Member Services & Technology, IACCM.

In the following article, Dr Sara Cullen highlights some common realities with contracts - such as the fact few people read them, few people use them and many times they are subject to misinterpretation. Sara suggests we confront these realities and take a different approach to forming and documenting agreement.

In this article, author Julien Nadaud tells how to strengthen your procurement strategies and make them easier with just one word: agile. He lays the basic groundwork to rebuild your present agile procurement strategies.   And he concludes by summarizing two case studies surrounding specific examples of agility in action.  For both these companies, procurement agility made all the difference…

In a significant step for Australian procurement laws, the Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Bill 2017 (Cth) (the Bill) passed the Senate without amendment on 18 October 2018.

Here’s an attorney’s story of how he developed visual contracts that everyone can read -- including people that are illiterate!

Negotiation – the art of reaching an agreement – is challenging to say the least.  But without a well-planned approach plus a clear understanding of the terms or clauses you typically negotiate, you face defeat.  Would you like to prevent this and get it right?

Piotr Powazka, independent Contract Management and GDPR Data Protection Consultant with Coauthor: René Franz Henschel, Professor, Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences, Department of Law, Aarhus, Denmark

Picture the board room at our biannual business meeting:  our senior management team faced costly problems involving the Major Surface Ships Branch within the Australian Department of Defence.