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Flexibility and Stability in Contracts
This article explores collaboration and visualization as promising tools for enhancing contract flexibility even while enhancing stability. Better collaboration seeks stronger communication among the contracting parties, their lawyers, and those who will implement the contact. The flexibility introduced could rebalance and better integrate the commercial, personal, and business relationships that comprise a contract. Visualization techniques enable those stronger communication patterns. By using graphic images in the various documents that comprise and support contracting, the process of creating those documents becomes more inclusive. Furthermore, the substance of contracting goals, terms, and underlying assumptions becomes more transparent and usable to broader segments of the commercial community.