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Latest News & Blog
Do Contract Managers & Lawyers Actually Care About Results?
Published: 24 Apr 2014
Type: Commitment Matters Blog
How many contract and commercial managers, how many lawyers, actually care about the quality of the contracts they produce? How many actively monitor or seek to learn from the operational impacts and issues associated with contracts? How many take time to read research studies...
Will Regulation Change The Shape Of Competition?
Published: 24 Apr 2014
Type: Articles / White Papers
On April 16, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry spoke to attendees of the Consumer Electronics Show Government Conference, taking his concerns about banks' vendor relationships and cybersecurity risks to potential third-party technology service providers.
Are you in an adversarial industry? Insights for contract negotiators and managers.
Published: 23 Apr 2014
Type: Commitment Matters Blog
Given their business significance, it is interesting how little research has been done on claims and disputes. They impact reputation, trust and bottom-line results, but most organizations have very little insight to the frequency, causes or costs of claims and disputes. As a ...
Microsoft lauded for privacy, security in the cloud
Published: 22 Apr 2014
Type: Articles / White Papers
European Union data protection authorities recognize Microsoft cloud services for meeting privacy standards
The America Invents Act: Big changes not just for patent lawyers
Published: 22 Apr 2014
Type: Articles / White Papers
The first year under the AIA has shown that in-house counsel need to be just as aware of the Act's changes as patent lawyers
It pays to be at the top
Published: 10 Apr 2014
Type: Commitment Matters Blog
People at senior levels are paid more. That's no surprise. But IACCM's most recent salary survey suggests that those at the top are beginning to increase the differential, with average pay for a functional leader jumping by almost 20% in the last year, while those in m...
Will regulation eliminate the need for contract negotiation?
Published: 08 Apr 2014
Type: Commitment Matters Blog
Take a look at this article describing the terms that are now impacted by regulation in the financial services industry. The list is so extensive that the scope for meaningful negotiation appears severely reduced. Already, we are seeing pressure for the creation of industry s...
Software & the future of patent litigation
Published: 07 Apr 2014
Type: Commitment Matters Blog
Software today is all-pervasive. No matter what industry you are in, or what products or services you buy and sell, a high proportion of contracts will have some sort of clause related to embedded or related software. And of course, along with that software come a range of con...
A wake-up call for contract and commercial management
Published: 04 Apr 2014
Type: Commitment Matters Blog
If it costs over 500 million Euros, it's a Megaproject. An awful lot of them - some 65% - go wrong, substantially overshooting on budget or experiencing major delay. And since governments worldwide are expected to spend around 100 trillion euros on such projects over the n...
A wake-up call for contract and commercial management
Published: 03 Apr 2014
Type: Commitment Matters Blog
If it costs over 500 million Euros, it's a Megaproject. An awful lot of them - some 65% - go wrong, substantially overshooting on budget or experiencing major delay. And since governments worldwide are expected to spend around 100 trillion euros on such projects over the n...
