Sriram Narayan

Sriram Narayan is an independent consultant. He helps big companies and startups improve performance and business impact. He served in product, technology, innovation, and transformation leadership roles for sixteen years before going independent in 2021. Prior to this, he was a hands-on techie in his early career.

Pearson USA published his first book, Agile IT Org Design, in 2015. John Marcante, then CIO at Vanguard, the investments major, recommended the book as a must-read. Nick Williams, then Managing Director, Consumer Digital, Lloyds Banking Group recommended it to a digital leaders’ reading list. Several other industry leaders publicly acknowledged its worth.

His 2018 article on the Product Operating Model ("Project to Product"), published by Martin Fowler of ThoughtWorks, has become a de-facto industry reference.

Along the way, he created Cleararchy, a formulation for organizing hierarchy for the digital age and an alternative to formulations such as Holacracy and Teal.