By Martin Lonstrup & Magnus Steen
So we have been challenged. We have been engaged by a General Counsel stating:I want my company to do the best contracts we can, I want to be closer to the business, be an active part of strategic decisions. I want the legal department to be a valuable business enabler driving better performance on bottom line. Therefore, I want my team, my company and myself to become a leader in contract management.
The contract management challenge
Back to the challenge – we recently met up with a GC heading a quantifiable legal department at a technology forefront company. He told us that his company is innovative at the speed of the internet, taking size-able market shares and starting to trace profitability, but at the same time he had to admit that his company were “so eighties” when it comes to contracting. Continue reading