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Unmatched Expertise in Agile 

Agile leader and digital age pioneer, Russ Lewis is uniquely qualified in Business and IT Organisation Development
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Industry Experience

Since 2010, around 10 million daily journeys through London are processed through IT systems Russ Lewis helped Transport for London design and build. 

The agile methods and microservice designs that Russ Lewis introduced transformed the way TfL works with suppliers, develops technology and values its Intellectual Property. 

Bridging the Business-IT Gap

Although the gap is real, the needs of business and limitations of technology are resolved by helping stakeholders clarify shared outcomes. 

Having been Interim Executive, Entrepreneur, Engineer, Salesperson, and consultant, Russ Lewis understands and explains the leadership needed to prioritise outcomes that matter to customers.
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Competence through Diversity

Sensing the world differently to neurotypical people, Russ Lewis designs and delivers learning experiences that are engaging and effective for everyone.

Whilst diversity, equality and inclusion are new challenges for some, they are essential for communicating new concepts and ways of working to senior managers and established teams. 

Evidence-Based Practice  

Russ Lewis was awarded a distinction for his Master's dissertation on Organisational Agility in 2017. That work identified the need to better explain managers' role in improving agility. 

In 2021, Russ Lewis began his Doctoral Research, exploring managers as leaders of agile transformation, by overcoming  the barriers to business agility. 
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AGILE DELIVERY

The must-have outcome for every agile transformation program is improved delivery metrics. No matter if it's internal services or supplied products, value must be delivered predictably and agilely. 

OPERATING MODEL

Digital age businesses adapt quickly to new technology and social expectations. Transformational leadership overcomes inertia and inspires managers to continually improve the operating model.

GOVERNANCE & CONTROLS

Many established firms struggle to respond to market changes because of outdated control mechanisms. Replacing inward-facing constraints with customer-facing feedback loops enables high performance.

FINANCE & BUDGETS

Traditional accounting methods will be with us for some time yet, but improvements can be made at negligible risk, such as adding throughput and net cost lenses into the cost accounting mix. 
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April 28, 2023
Collaboration versus simplification for organisational change

One of my favourite books on organisational change is ‘Who Moved my Cheese?’ It’s short, and mice looking for cheese to eat is an appealing analogy. It’s a model for managers because it covers four theoretical outcomes of change. Those outcomes are: what happens if I (or we) do, or don’t make this change, what […]

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October 6, 2021
What does focussing on culture mean to XYZ Consulting?

We have some mid-tier consultants in at the moment who are "focussing on culture." Since we don't separate culture from delivering value to customers, I asked what that meant in practice. Apparently: "A generic scheme of manoeuvre could involve a diagnostic that looks at things like empowerment, psychological safety, collaboration, purpose, customer centricity… then based […]

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May 15, 2014
Slothful Lessons in Agile

Slothful Behaviour is Good If ever an animal captured the principle of "maximising work not done", it must surely be the sloth. A curiously slothful practitioner of business agility. Strangely endearing and charmingly enigmatic, sloths are surprisingly inspiring. There exists a Sloth-Club which was formed "to promote slothful behaviours" such as ecology, economy and vegetarianism […]

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