Stephen Phillips
Lead Analyst

Stephen is a passionate advocate for the information industry. He believes Jinfo has a critical role to help clients maximise the value when buying information.

Stephen's expertise continues to be sought after. He currently serves as a non-executive director at M&A Monitor and Senior Advisor to Couranto UK Ltd.

His knowledge enriched "The Emerald Handbook of Modern Information Management". He is on the Business Information Review editorial board, and he led their annual survey.

Stephen's dedication extends to the wider information profession. He created a peer network for the UK's financial services industry. He also holds leadership positions with CILIP and SLA Europe.

His work with clients, suppliers and conferences keeps him at the forefront of the industry.

Before joining Jinfo, Stephen managed a global research team and extensive portfolio of suppliers at a global investment bank.

Stephen can be contacted at stephen.phillips@jinfo.com

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Articles by Stephen Phillips:

Essential strategies for contract negotiations
Thursday, 30th October 2025

Jinfo’s recent "Contract negotiation role-play" Community session consisted of two vendor-client contract negotiating scenarios.

Following the session, we have published a detailed report of six highly-effective levers for vendor negotiations.

This blog gives an overview of the session, and describes two of the six key takeaways.

Legal AI alliances – is it time to negotiate better terms?
Thursday, 16th October 2025

Strategic alliances amongst legal content vendors are reshaping legal research, and embedding AI into platforms.

These investments come with the promise of improved efficiency and efficacy, and premium pricing.

Information managers can use the "workload paradox", and inherent inaccuracy risks, to mitigate potential price increases.

August 2025 update
Wednesday, 6th August 2025

In this issue:

  • Will AI lead to a three-tier information economy?
  • Stepping up to manage expert networks
  • Synthetic data: what information managers need to know
  • Upskilling for AI
  • What we learned from reviewing AI tools for news
  • Improve outcomes from your vendor negotiations
  • Contract negotiation role-play session.

Are you ready for the three-tier information economy?
Thursday, 31st July 2025

As publishers strike exclusive AI licensing deals and accelerate behind paywalls, a new three-tier information economy is emerging. 

We explore the key insights from Jinfo’s new report, highlighting the implications for information managers.

From access strategies to vendor negotiations, we outline how to prepare for the complex content landscape now taking shape.

Upskilling for AI
Tuesday, 15th July 2025

Jinfo’s new report explores how information teams can help their organisation to use AI tools more confidently, capably, and responsibly.

Here we look at some of the key findings.

Reports by Stephen Phillips:

Contract negotiation role play – analysis and practical strategies for your negotiations
Tuesday, 21st October 2025

Legal research – AI alliances, opportunity or risk?
Thursday, 25th September 2025

Why is metacognitive reflection so important when using AI?
Tuesday, 26th August 2025

Critical-thinking skills for GenAI
Thursday, 21st August 2025

Will AI lead to a three-tier information economy?
Wednesday, 23rd July 2025

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