Contract Management Blog

n an interview with the Center for Association Leadership, Joanne Duncan, CPA, CAE, and CFO of BIO and Jeffrey S. Tenenbaum, Esq., a partner in Venable LLP’s association practice group provide a useful checklist of best practices in contract management. Here is what we can learn from these two business professionals when selecting a contract management system.

Implementation and Control of Government Contracts Each fiscal year your company goes through the same exercise of reviewing its client portfolio to determine what can be done to improve the profitability of existing accounts and what can your team do to generate new sources of revenue. A great opportunity for the latter are government contracts…

Legal Clinics Could Benefit from Cloud-Based Contract Management “Larger [legal] clinics could be better positioned to leverage technology and/or develop partnerships that actually expand client access to clinic law services,” states a report from Legal Aid Ontario, an independent but publicly funded and publicly accountable non-profit corporation in Ontario, Canada. This need for merging of legal…

Achieving Operational Efficiency through Cloud Technologies Created by the E-Government Act of 2002, the Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States (US CIO) oversees federal technology spending, federal IT policy, and strategic planning of all Federal IT investments. In 2009 Vivek Kundra became the first American to hold the title of US CIO. Kundra’s…

Using Contract Management Software to Overcome Cost from Human Error Even the most diligent people make mistakes, forget things, and overlook important details. This potential for human error is well-known in business planning, and to counter it, automation of routine business processes is often employed- ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks. This automation logically…

Contract Workers Require Strong Contract Management The U.S. economy appears to be recovering, but many employers are still choosing to remain lean—using contract workers rather than hiring full-time employees. Contract workers provide the flexibility to lower labor costs in times of economic or industry downturns, as well as to meet operational needs. Using contract workers…