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Contract management definition What does Contract management mean? contract management means the organised oversight of a contract after signature and commencement, to secure delivery, compliance and value for money. In legal practice it covers: monitoring performance against scope, service levels and KPIs; operating change control and variations; giving, receiving and recording contractual notices and approvals; managing payments, price adjustments and milestones; handling extensions, renewals and exit; ensuring ongoing compliance with data protection, confidentiality, insurance, security, subcontracting and audit rights; maintaining governance, reporting and records; and addressing breaches, claims, liquidated damages, dispute resolution and termination. Usage is broadly consistent across England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland. The...
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Assessing Legal Contract Management: SMART KPIs for In-house Efficiency, Quality, Timescales, Cost-effectiveness and Risk
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Having put in place a Contract management process (see Precedent: Legal contract management process), your organisation will probably expect you to assess how the legal team performs that process, so its Efficiency and effectiveness can be tracked. This Practice Note aims to help you create appropriate Performance measures.
Why assess?
To confirm the business runs efficiently, you must set defined objectives and pair them with key performance indicators (KPIs) that show whether those objectives are achieved. That principle applies whatever part of the enterprise you are overseeing. Contract management—arguably the legal function’s most fundamental workflow—should not be treated differently.
The challenge, however, is that metrics for legal contract management are influenced by dependencies and delays caused by Third parties, both inside your organisation and externally.
Moreover, contracts differ widely from case to case in risk and complexity, making it hard to define sensible KPIs that remain meaningful across every scenario.
Understanding the business’s KPIs
As an initial step to designing KPIs for the legal department’s contract management, ensure you understand the business’s KPIs; that understanding should come first when designing KPIs for the legal department’s contract management, with the business’s KPIs understood as step to designing KPIs for contract management...
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