Back to School: How to “Ace” Education Contract Management

    By Sean Heck on 01/21/20

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    Manual drafting processes, unsystematic document and contract storage, and workflows involving emails and phones lead to contract lifecycle bottlenecks, wasted time, and squandered opportunities.  Contract management software can help alleviate these issues so that education professionals can take control of their contracts and “ace” contract management best practices.

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    Why You Should Utilize Contract Workflow Escalation

    By Rosemary Shields on 04/17/19

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    Intelligent contract workflows help accelerate the contract lifecycle but must be used in combination with workflow escalations to achieve a completely streamlined process.  You and your team may be 90% compliant with getting contract management tasks completed in a timely manner, but sometimes workloads change, and you may not get to complete that assigned task by its due date.  Contract workflow escalations can help eliminate this challenge by having a back-up individual who can complete the task instead.

    If you’re frequently encountering delays or bottlenecks at a particular step in your contract process, contract management workflow escalations can help eliminate the slow down.

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    Implementor’s Story: Configuring Contract Workflows for Higher Education

    By Rosemary Shields on 02/8/19

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    The Challenge: Missed Renewals and an Inefficient Process

    CobbleStone’s award-winning contract management software, Contract Insight™, is a fully configurable system, able to meet any industry’s needs with a few configurations.  Both large and small educational institutions, from community colleges to leading universities, use Contract Insight as their preferred education contract management software.  Learn from this real-world example how one of Washington’s largest higher education institutions chose Contract Insight as their contract management system and utilized the user-friendly software’s configurability to set up the system to meet their needs.

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    How to Execute a Contract Workflow for CLM Success

    By Rosemary Shields on 12/28/18

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    How many steps should be in a contract workflow? 

    The correct answer is: It’s dependent on your organization’s needs. 

    There is no set number of tasks for a “perfect workflow”.  You must determine what steps are necessary and in what order they should be executed, establishing the best workflow for your organization to achieve CLM (contract lifecycle management) success.

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