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:


2025 strategic planning; evaluating research reports; The Financial Times, news and AI
Tuesday, 5th November 2024

We take a look at:

  • Three key AI trends for information managers in 2025
  • Upcoming Community session with the FT, and one in Asia-Pacific
  • New report on evaluating market research quality
  • Another lawsuit highlights the ethics of AI, including authors’ rights and mitigating copyright risk.


All recent Jinfo Subscription content
Thursday, 31st October 2024

Jinfo has recently covered a wide range of topics, including eavesdropping, authors’ rights, vendor takeovers, RAG, CCC, AI agents and agentic frameworks, and evaluating market research. Here’s a comprehensive list.


End-user training best practice research
Thursday, 24th October 2024

Participate in our latest research into training end-users on third-party information products and research tools in the pharmaceutical and biosciences sector.


Mitigating risk, evaluating sources of market research; AI roundtable; and vendor training of end users in the pharma sector
Wednesday, 2nd October 2024

A look at mitigating information risk in AI, eavesdropping Internet activity, our AI roundtable Community session and end-user training in pharma.


What should you be doing to get ahead of a possible takeover of Dun & Bradstreet?
Wednesday, 18th September 2024

Recent vendor consolidations point to robust values for data and analytics companies.  This has led to much speculation about the future of Dun & Bradstreet.  

Jinfo reflects on what a potential sale might mean, and how information managers should start to prepare for a potential change in ownership.

Reports by Stephen Phillips:


How are information managers getting involved with AI? Navigating privacy, ethics, and intellectual property
Wednesday, 13th November 2024

It highlights strategies for managing expectations, p...


Augmenting your documentation to mitigate risks of using Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, 5th November 2024


Crafting a governance framework for AI products and applications
Friday, 1st November 2024

It inc...


How to critically evaluate the quality and credibility of market research sources
Wednesday, 30th October 2024


Eavesdropping risk-mitigation plan and vendor case study
Wednesday, 2nd October 2024