Contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions are one of the hottest legal technologies right now, as corporate legal and other departments strive to bring order, value and risk management to their contracts. CLM systems are also expensive investments, and successful deployment can be a tricky business.

As Legaltech News reported in September, some corporates are already finding themselves on their second CLM rollout, having had a troubled first install and hoping that this time around does the trick. As experiments go, this makes for a costly do-over. So, what is the key to getting it right the first time?