Most enterprises today suffer from a sub-optimal contracting process.  It is not for lack of a lot of hard working, well intentioned legal and contracting professionals.   Achieving contracting excellence is hard.   

Kingsley Martin wrote a thought provoking piece on the future of contracting platforms. While it is hard to predict when the dawn of self-organizing, self-reporting contracts will be the norm under Kingsley’s optimized contracts maturity model, the reality is that everything that a company needs to transform its current contracting process and significantly move up the maturity chain is available today.