ATE - How Can Flexible Contracting Lead to Better Business Results?

Today's project business is conducted in a constantly changing environment. Many of us manage such projects, often internationally, and are seeing an ever-increasing need for flexibility in contracting.In this webinar you can hear practical advice on introducing flexibility to your contracts and contract processes, and how to discover this ties into flexible project management.\r
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Our Experts:Soili Nysten-Haarala, L.L.D., M. Sc. (Econ.) is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Eastern Finland and Professor of Jurisprudence at Lulea University of Technology in Sweden. She has led several empirical research projects concerning contracting in business. The ongoing multidisciplinary project "Flexibility in Business Contracting" (www.uef.fi/oikeustieteet/Flexibility) , financed by the Finnish Cultural Foundation connects law and management researchers in Europe, U.S. , Russia and China. soili.nysten-haarala@uef.fi, soili.nysten-haarala@ltu.seThomas D. Barton is the Louis and Hermione Brown Professor of Law at California Western School of Law in San Diego, California where he teaches Contract Law, and Problem Solving and Preventive Law, and Alternative Dispute Resolution skills. He actively researches questions about preventing legal disputes, making contracting more accessible and collaborative, and most recently procedures for resolving intellectual property disputes. tdb@cwsl.eduJaakko Kujala is Professor of Project and Quality Management at the University of Oulu, Finland. He has over ten years' experience in automation system industry and he has initiated several large research projects with the participation of leading project based firms such as Nokia Siemens Networks, Kone, Wartsila and Metso. His research interests include contextual variable, flexibility in contracting and business models in project-based firms. jaakko.kujala@oulu.fi