The Roadmap Bristows

This time on The Roadmap Chris Holder chats to Rob Powell and Alice Esuola-Grant about managing the procurement process for your digital transformation - from aligning internal stakeholders, going out to market, managing bids and navigating tricky negotiations, as well as co-ordinating your own internal customer teams.Getting the procurement process right can be a key pillar in giving your digital transformation project the best chance of success - setting the tone for your relationship with ...

In this episode, our tech lawyers Vik Khurana and Anneke Pol discuss how IT suppliers use their customers’ data, the risks to customers and what they can do about it. In particular:The supplier arms-race to embed AI in their enterprise products and services.How they are using customer data and the legal and contractual loopholes they are leveraging.A checklist of risks and mitigations customers can use to guard against inadvertent data sharing.How 'hidden AI' in enterprise services is causing...

This time on the Roadmap, we’re exploring troubled projects. These are projects that are not in litigation territory yet but are having problems. Our experts Toby Crick and Anneke Pol discuss how to manage projects as they start to go wrong to try and avert failure, avoid disputes and work out a sensible way forward. They consider the importance of contractual change mechanisms, open but carefully managed dialogue, judicious use of escalation mechanisms and, if at all possible, having some fl...

In this episode, our tech partner Vik Khurana is joined by two very special guests, Adam McArthur and Warren Brown, from the global pharma and biotech company, AstraZeneca. Adam is Assistant General Counsel (Digital, IT and Operations) and Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at Evinova (AstraZeneca’s new Healthtech business). Warren is Senior Counsel (Digital & Data) at AstraZeneca. They discuss:the impact of AI and digital technologies on the pharma and healthcare indust...

In this bonus episode, commercial tech partners Vik Khurana and Adrian Sim introduce our Digital Transformation Project Masterclass Series. Comprising four, half-day, training sessions - taking place between January and April 2024 - the programme is designed, specifically, for in-house lawyers and procurement professionals who work on buy-side digital transformation, IT, outsourcing and commercial projects.You can find the full agenda, and registration details here. We look forward to se...

Many technology and sourcing deals are signed promising innovation, change and transformation. After all, there is a real need for these deals to drive more value from data through AI, analytics and multi-cloud, automate manual processes, and leverage best-of-breed tools and platforms.But too often, they don’t deliver innovation beyond the business-as-usual. In episode 18 of The Roadmap, our experts Vik Khurana and Anneke Pol explain how procurement processes and contractual frameworks can be...