6: Design the Open-floor Plan

Now that we know how to recruit and train the talent to “wield the sledgehammer” of making digital transformation happen, how do we design for it to become ingrained in our organizational culture? In our nested adaptive cycles framework, you can think of culture as the oil lubricating the wheels to work together and binding them as one. Our CEO in New York asked us lots of questions, but an important one we had to ask him was: What is your existing organizational culture, and how do you plan to (re)design it to make digital transformation stick? Believe it or not, the story we told him next concerned blue beings.