In these podcasts, Harry Small, a partner in IT / Commercial department of Baker McKenzie’s London office, gives perspectives that CFOs and finance teams should consider.

Podcast 1 – Procurement

In the first podcast Harry considers the legal risks in procuring technology that a finance team should be aware of.

He explains the differences between the waterfall and agile approaches and how benefits can be tracked into contract terms. He then considers issues around the procurement of cloud computing services.

Podcast 2 – GDPR

In the second podcast Harry considers several game changing principles in the implementation of the regulation. He looks at the roles of controllers vs. processors, profiling, the implications of a data breach and the role of the Data Protection Officer.