Axiologik News | June Edition
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Axiologik are a digital consultancy based in Leeds, specialising in transformational change across numerous sectors.
We love taking on projects that have big impacts on the end users, improve and educate communities and individuals whilst keeping to our values and tech for good visions.
Our goal is to support and drive positive change within likeminded oganisations and teams, continue growing internally and utilising our local network to create a hub of technology focussed people to support projects which have a positive change.
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Leadership Thoughts
Business Wins in June
It’s been a busy month, with some huge business development wins and advancements.
At the FCA we have closed the Digital Maturity Partner deal, this a relatively large deal for us, but most significantly capitalises our reputation for transforming clients’ digital delivery operating models – we’re building a good reputation for this kind of work and this win happened because we could reference previous successes, talk knowledgably in our proposal about our methods and experience and our people.
In addition to this we’ve submitted a bid to be included in a digital capabilities and skills framework for the FCA which, if we’re successful in securing a place on, will see us able to bid for more work packages there in a much smaller pool of framework suppliers over the next few years.
Elsewhere in government, our Home Office growth is solid with 8 new roles secured there, and two more framework submissions made for the NHS Shared Business Services. These latter frameworks are also multi-year frameworks with anticipated spend in the 100s of millions.
At the UK Health Security Agency, we’ve won our first pureplay Discovery work package.
Whilst we’ve led product and service teams at clients where we’ve had to do discoveries, this is a bounded, referenceable piece of work that gets our Discovery-as-a-Service offering off the ground. We expect to bid for lots more of these, and they mean that we are shifting our engagement model to the left and getting closer to our clients’ problem framing. It’s a great lead-in to further delivery and engineering work.
In other sectors, we’ve secured another piece of operating model work at Thomson Reuters which sees us extending the existing team there, with some Thomson Reuters old hands re-joining us!
At Welsh Water we completed our digital capabilities assessment work package which has been very well received and we’re now in continued talks with them about the roadmap we’ve put forward and how we can help in its execution.
Strengthening our business development capabilities has been the priority of the last couple of months, and with a strong marketing team and sector leads in place we are now having much more conversations at the upper funnel and qualified leads are now coming through.
Conversations are being had with organisations like BNP Paribas, Sky and other divisions in NHS Digital.
In addition to this, we welcome Rob Smith as our new Commercial Director. Rob started on 13th June, and he will lead all growth activities for Axiologik.
Introducing
Introducing Rob Smith
Commercial Director
"If there is such a thing as a career path, mine is paved with crazy paving."
Having graduated in mathematics, I started my career in technical roles at Kodak (remember them?), and was head of engineering for Sila (a Reuters subsidiary) in my early thirties, before co-founding the pioneering Agile consultancy, IndigoBlue, in 2002.
Looking back at some of the very challenging conversations I had back then, it’s great to now be vindicated through ubiquitous, global adoption of agile processes in technology.
Having sold IndigoBlue to Mastek in 2015, I have since held a number of commercial roles and am delighted to have now joined Axiologik as Commercial Director; with a clear focus on helping to take the organisation through its next phase of growth.
Coming here is a little like returning home, both literally and metaphorically. I am a Yorkshireman (despite living in London for the last 30 years) and have previously worked with many of the team here.
Most importantly I have a career-long passion for improving client-side delivery, helping organisation to become the best versions of themselves.
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Events
Upcoming Events
- 29th June - FinTech North Conference has partnered up with Axiologik as one of their sponsors – we will be seeing everyone who is attending on the 29th June to discuss how Leeds has grown and what we can do keep driving our fintech ecosystem. > Find out more
- 5th July - We will be hosting a very exciting Tech UK Round Table hosted at our office in Leeds. > Find out more
- 6th July – our next Digital Dinners instalment!
- 12th July – our next BY-peers event is hosted at our office (our very own lovely Rae Evans is on the panel)! The topic will be focussing on building personal brand within the industry and how to successfully market yourself
Socials
Charity FareShare Day – this month we had our very own Simon Rust (Head of Product), Ross MacGregor (Finance Director) and Dave Archbold (Product Manager) get hands on and get out there supporting local communities in Leeds.
Healthy Habits – a staff competition to drive healthy habits – it’s been a lot of fun so far and we can’t wait to see who wins the prize, a spa night for 2 at Rudding Park!
Monthly Book Club – our first book is underway – if you’d like to get involved, let us know!
Monthly Gaming Night – we had our first one in May which was brilliant and hoping this month is even better! If you’d like to come along, reach out to Cat ☺
Yoga Mondays – part of the Healthy Habits piece, we are making an effort to time to unwind and relax away from our screens(which not all of us are great at).
Upcoming – July – Staff Summer Logik Fest – super excited for this and can’t wait to tell you all about it next month ☺
Digital Dinners
Our brilliant Marketing duo, Rachel and Rae, were busy getting involved in some fantastic events here in Leeds!
Digital Dinners – we hosted this as part of Yorkshire Sustainability Week which was a huge success! It was great to be part of a community that is passionate about sustainability and working with green technologies. We have our next instalment scheduled for July so follow our LinkedIn page to get the latest updates on this!
You can watch the recording of our recent Digital Dinners event below
New Hires in June
A warm Axiologik welcome to the latest members of the team:
Rob Smith:
Director of Business Development – perm
Peter Burke:
Delivery Lead – perm
Chris Wood:
Product Manager – associate
Inderjit Gill:
Delivery Lead – associate
Simon Elliott:
Technology Project Manager – associate
Andy Wilby:
Business Analyst – associate
Harpreet Purewal:
User Researcher – associate
Gurpinder Lalli:
User Researcher – associate
Matt Royal:
Solutions Architect – associate
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Have your say
Introducing the Client Referral Scheme
We have ambitious growth goals for Axiologik and to help us achieve them, we would appreciate your help.
As a valued member of the Axiologik network, we want to reward you for new business leads that you bring to the company. *
Contact clientreferrals@axiologik.com for more information.
*Terms and conditions apply
Contact Details
Recruitment
Jack Taylor
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Cat Hardy
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For general recruitment enquires, please email recruitment@axiologik.com
Marketing
Rachel McElroy
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Email rachel.mcelroy@Axiologik.com
Rae Evans
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New Business
Want to find out what we can do for you as a client?
Get in touch! clientreferrals@axiologik.com