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:

Jinfo wins CILIP’s inaugural “McFarlane & Ward Information Management” award
Thursday, 4th December 2025

The award recognises Jinfo’s work in supporting information professionals with independent research, product reviews, practical strategies and networking.

December 2025 update
Wednesday, 3rd December 2025

Contents:
  • Mitigating third-party risk
  • Review of Matchplat
  • Why you shouldn’t rely on GenAI for news.

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.

Reports by Stephen Phillips:

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

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

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

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