Jinfo: Stephen Phillips

Stephen Phillips

Stephen is a passionate advocate for the information industry. He began working with Jinfo in 2020 as Senior Analyst and became Lead Analyst in 2022.

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

Stephen retired from Jinfo in 2026 but continues to support CILIP's work as Trustee and Honorary Treasurer and serves as a non-executive director of M&A Monitor.

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Articles by Stephen Phillips:

Be an agent of change, not a victim of circumstance – tips for information professionals
Thursday, 9th April 2026

Take ownership of your career and become an agent for change, not a victim of circumstance.

After a 40-year career, Stephen Phillips offers his six tips for information professionals:

Be commercial
Commit to lifelong learning
Distinguish “Clients” from “Users”
Embrace technology
Build supplier partnerships
Invest in peer networking.

How BASF puts knowledge at the centre of innovation
Wednesday, 28th January 2026

A recent Jinfo Community session, with Dr Stephan Ballenweg of BASF, explored the development of “QKnows”, a global knowledge and information platform for 10,000 R&D researchers.

As a result of the session, Jinfo has produced a detailed report that gives an overview of the development of the QKnows platform, and eight actions for information leaders.

This blog gives some highlights from the report, including two actions, plus details of a forthcoming demo.

January 2026 update
Wednesday, 7th January 2026

GenAI strengths, weaknesses and limitations for adverse-media monitoring
Honing your information leadership skills
How GenAI is affecting your team, and what this means for your strategy.

Actions to balance the risks of adverse-media monitoring and web scraping for news content
Thursday, 18th December 2025

Jinfo has recently been focussing on new content monitoring, and the complex trade-off between comprehensive coverage, data integrity, and copyright risk.

In-depth results from our survey and Community session have generated a number of strategies and actions for information managers.

This blog outlines the issues, and some of the actions, which are available in the full report.

Opportunities for information managers in due diligence and third-party risk
Thursday, 11th December 2025

There are multiple opportunities for information managers to support their organisation’s due diligence and integrity research.

Here we capture some of the opportunities and recommendations from our new report.

Reports by Stephen Phillips:

How to develop a proprietary knowledge and information management platform
Wednesday, 14th January 2026

It is bas...

Optimising licensed content, web scraping and GenAI for adverse-media monitoring
Wednesday, 17th December 2025

News integrity and AI – building the case for premium news products
Thursday, 20th November 2025

Opportunities for information managers in due diligence and third-party risk
Thursday, 13th November 2025

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

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Content investment for AI
19th May 2026

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April 2026 update
1st April 2026

Finding common ground between stakeholders in AI licensing
16th April 2026
Be an agent of change, not a victim of circumstance – tips for information professionals
9th April 2026
April 2026 update
1st April 2026

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