Trends Driving Growth in Digital Contracting & Legal Transformation

For legal operations, transformation can partly be achieved by automating manual processes, minimizing risks, enforcing and improving compliance, and gaining greater insights into business performance - all with the help of effective contract management solutions. With regulatory boards always call…

Contract traceability: Connecting the dots with suppliers & systems

Many procurement teams go into panic mode on a misplaced contract. From simply finding a signed contract to establishing a complex trail between MSAs and relevant SOWs, NDAs, and amendments across its lifecycle improves visibility. Connecting these further to active spends with suppliers, purchase …

Raising the bar in contract management - A General Counsel’s perspective

Without a cohesive process in place, organizations can be exposed to chaotic workflows, lost contracts, failed compliances, and more. To create improved efficiencies, it is important to understand the challenges of managing contracts across their lifecycle and drive performance based on seamless co…

Digital transformation and the build vs. buy conundrum: A CIO’s perspective

For most problems businesses face today – solutions are plenty, purpose-built by innovators. The question is mostly around identifying the right transformative opportunities within and the choices one needs to make – core vs. context, now vs. later and more importantly, build vs. buy. Host Guru V…

CLM - The secret sauce for better procurement

From supplier management to cost reduction to risk mitigation, procurement departments face a variety of challenges - with contracts taking the lead. While contracts are still handled in timeworn ways, a lot can be done with an efficient contract lifecycle management solution. Host Guru Venkatesan…

The missing M in CLM - Art & science of managing contracts

The value of a contract is not just in the document, it is in how you bring that document to life with the help of people with the right subject expertise, technology to scale what you have at hand, and gaining insights that are beyond just numbers.  Hosts Matthias Toepert and Guru Venkatesan are …

Contract: A prenuptial agreement or a marital vow?

Today, contracts are mostly viewed as a prenuptial agreement with focus on obligations, penalties and exit clauses. They primarily cover what should happen when things go wrong. Instead, contracts should be looked at like marital vows, giving all stakeholders an opportunity to adjust, change and ad…

Clause & Effect - the world of business contracts

Join Guru Venkatesan & Matthias Toppert - co-founders of SimpliContract as they make biweekly dives into the ever-evolving world of business contracts and their impact. Listen in as they chat with industry experts with decades of experience in law, sales, procurement, and finance and bring you plau…