Where Strategy Meets Tech
Turning Strategy into Measurable Business Outcomes
We help organizations align technology decisions to revenue growth, operational efficiency, and risk reduction.
Built by Operators, Not Consultants
Senior judgement from both sides of the capital equation.
Harrison Lewis
Founding Partner
A three-time CIO with deep retail sector experience, Harrison founded Jacob Meadow Associates to bring operator-grade technology strategy to executive leaders and boards. He brings the perspective of someone who has sat in the chair, made the calls, and lived with the consequences.
Janet Peterson
Principal Finance Consultant
With more than 22 years of practice in finance and accounting transformation, Janet advises clients on the financial decisions that determine whether strategy survives execution. An NYU Stern MBA and magna cum laude graduate of Providence College, she holds active academic appointments at Providence, Curry, and Stonehill Colleges, translating frontline practice into the next generation of finance professionals.
Every JMA engagement is led by principal and senior consultants who own the strategy, design, and oversight of your work. We pair that senior leadership with focused execution support where it makes sense, so you get operator-grade judgment without paying senior-only rates for every hour of the engagement.
Our work is grounded in two beliefs: technology decisions are capital allocation decisions and deserve the same rigor you apply to every other dollar your organization spends — and that rigor is only possible when the advice is independent. We are paid by our clients, never by the vendors whose tools we may recommend.
How We Work
We hold ourselves to a different standard than traditional consulting firms.
Trust, confidentiality, and accountability for outcomes — the operating principles that define our engagements.
Confidentiality is non-negotiable.
For our engagements to succeed, clients must share their strengths, weaknesses, and aspirations openly. That candor is only possible when trust is absolute. We do not publish a NASCAR slide of client logos or solicit testimonials. References are available on request — confidentiality is not.
We are invested in the outcome, not the deliverable.
Strategy without execution is theater. We define what success looks like alongside our clients, establish how it will be measured, and stay through implementation. The engagement ends when the outcome is delivered — not when the deck is presented.
Senior judgment governs every engagement.
Principal and senior consultants own the strategy, design, and oversight of your work. Focused execution support is paired in where it adds efficiency, never where it dilutes quality.
The DAAEG™ Framework
Treat technology like capital, not cost.
Most organizations make technology decisions reactively — tool by tool, vendor by vendor, project by project. The DAAEG Framework brings the same discipline you apply to capital allocation to every technology investment.
The Five Stages:
Define — Establish strategic intent before investing
Assess — Audit current state, waste, and risk
Align — Map initiatives to business outcomes
Execute — Deliver with measurable discipline
Govern — Sustain value and close the loop
AI Strategy, Done Responsibly
We help you prepare for AI, embed it in our recommendations, and practice what we preach.
AI is reshaping how organizations operate, compete, and allocate capital. We help executive teams cut through the noise — separating durable advantage from expensive distraction.
Our work in this space covers three fronts:
Prepare
Our AI Awareness and Change Management Program builds the foundation most organizations skip. Through facilitated sessions, scenario-based exercises, and our proprietary Awareness Check methodology, we help your workforce understand both the opportunity AI represents and the risk of AI Backwash™ — the unintended exposure of company data through everyday, well-intended AI use. Most AI failures are not technical. They are cultural. We address the people problem before the technology problem.
Embed
Where AI genuinely improves outcomes, we build it into our recommendations and roadmaps. Every AI recommendation is grounded in business case, governance plan, and measurable outcome — not buzzwords.
Practice
We use AI inside our own consulting practice every day, always with a human in the loop. Our proprietary knowledge base, methodology codification, and analytical tools are AI-augmented and senior-supervised. We will not recommend an approach to AI we have not pressure-tested on ourselves first.
Our AI practice is led by Kushal Raju, Head of AI Strategy & Solutions. Learn more about Kushal and our AI Awareness and Change Management Program →
Where Does Your Organization Stand?
Take our 5-minute executive self-diagnostic to identify where technology investment is driving business value — and where it is leaking. No call required, results delivered immediately.
Proof of Outcomes
Retail organization
Reduced technology stack overlap, improving cost efficiency and eliminating redundant platforms
Manufacturing and distribution
Simplified integration architecture, accelerating delivery timelines
Multi-channel business
Improved order accuracy and reduced manual processes across systems
What We Do
We focus on three areas where organizations consistently underperform:
- Improving top-line growth through stronger customer and commercial capabilities
- Reducing cost through rationalization and operating discipline
- Strengthening resilience and reducing operational risk
How We Consistently Deliver Outcomes
Our approach ensures consistent delivery of measurable outcomes:
- Clear definition of business objectives and success metrics
- Objective assessment of systems, cost, and risk
- Alignment of investments to business priorities
- Disciplined execution against defined outcomes
- Ongoing governance to ensure value is realized
Where We Typically Create Value
- Fragmented systems and integration complexity
- Underutilized technology investments
- Inefficient core business processes
- Lack of governance and decision clarity
Take the First Step
Every organization has opportunities to improve performance. The first step is identifying where technology can deliver measurable business impact.