ABOUT
About
I work best with ambitious organisations facing a decision they cannot afford to get wrong.
I’m Jes Westerman — a product, technology and innovation leader with more than twenty years delivering data, software and digital change across insurance, analytics and technology.
My focus is the difficult commercial problem: fragmented businesses, legacy platforms, competing stakeholders, unclear paths forward. I find a way through and leave something stronger than I found it.
I am not positioning Westerman Studio as an AI consultancy, a Scrum coach, a development agency or a technical architecture shop. Those are capabilities. The work is helping organisations make better decisions about product, technology and AI.
The differentiator is the combination: commercial strategy, product leadership, technology and AI. That mix enables advice that is commercially grounded, technically credible and deliverable.
Philosophy
- Customer’s needs are key but need to be balanced against strategy.
- Always start with understanding the problem.
- Product and engineering solve problems together, not over the fence.
- Technology serves the business, rather than itself.
- AI is valuable because it is practical and delivers real results rather than hype.
- Great products require consideration of the three “P”s — people, process and product.