Tag Archives: Contract

Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement

Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement   Lawrence Bonk A Canadian judge has ruled that the popular “thumbs-up” emoji not only can be used as a contract agreement, but is just as valid as an actual signature. The Saskatchewan-based judge made the ruling on the grounds that the courts … Continue reading Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement

Twitter reportedly cuts 4,400 contract workers following mass layoffs

Twitter warns employees that layoffs are happening Friday The cuts come only a week after Elon Musk took over the company. K. Holt @krisholt   Carlos Barria / reuters Twitter will reportedly begin laying off workers on Friday, only a week after Elon Musk officially took control of the website. Around half of the company’s … Continue reading Twitter reportedly cuts 4,400 contract workers following mass layoffs

Google Employee Who Protested A Contract With Israel Resigns After Being Forced To Relocate

Google Employee Who Protested A Contract With Israel Resigns by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, August 30, 2022 Ariel Koren — a product marketing manager for Google for Education who has worked for the Alphabet company for seven years — wrote a memo to colleagues announcing her plan to leave Google at the end of the week. Ariel, … Continue reading Google Employee Who Protested A Contract With Israel Resigns After Being Forced To Relocate

24 questions to ask ABM vendors before signing the contract

Plus 15 questions to ask customer references, preferably in a business similar to your own. Kim Davis on July 29, 2022 Most B2B marketing organizations today practice some kind of account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. At its most basic, that means investing marketing and sales resources in guiding high value accounts through the journey to conversion. … Continue reading 24 questions to ask ABM vendors before signing the contract

Contract Management: How to Improve Your Processes

Contract Management: How to Improve Your Processes Deanna Ritchie / 20 May 2022   Contract management is an essential part of most businesses, responsible for helping companies draft arrangements, form partnerships, and more. However, you could lose money without the right tools and processes in your contract management strategy or, worse, face legal trouble. So … Continue reading Contract Management: How to Improve Your Processes

Back to Basics: The Different Phases of Contract Management

David Parks April 14, 2021 In earlier blogs, I discussed the importance of budgeting for modern contract management, as well as the basics of identifying, assessing and mitigating risks in contracts. While these pieces talked about the importance of looking at the entire contract management lifecycle and the foundational nature of contracts to businesses, I’d … Continue reading Back to Basics: The Different Phases of Contract Management

It’s Time to Digitally Transform Contract Review and Negotiations

David Parks March 4, 2021 As I mentioned in earlier blogs, companies are under significant pressure to digitally transform their business processes and contract negotiation is no exception. Contracts are the backbone of the modern organization, and many have turned to Digital Contract Transformation (DCX) to digitize their contracts and contract lifecycle management (CLM) processes. … Continue reading It’s Time to Digitally Transform Contract Review and Negotiations

2021 Budgeting: Making the Case for Modern Contract Management

David Parks December 3, 2020 Research firm Gartner predicts that enterprise software spend will grow 7.2% in 2021. In a recent article in ZDNet, Gartner research VP John-David Lovelock said, “Companies have more IT to do and less money to do it. As a result, CIOs are spending more in areas that will accelerate their … Continue reading 2021 Budgeting: Making the Case for Modern Contract Management