🧠 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Networked design strategy

Building resilient, inclusive systems through shared stories

🔍 Why it matters

Organizations still struggle to advance digital transformation, despite the importance of the integrated network economy to growth. New target-states are needed for Digital Transformation that strategically design a business to co-innovate, co-invest and collaborate.

Technology is often funded for competitiveness but rarely designed to enable coherence. Businesses invest in tech stacks that promise transformation, yet deliver tactical opportunity.

With HITMXE®, we flip the paradigm: design technology around outcomes first, then functions. We help organizations build systems that enable coherency and independence- the twin pillars of future-fit strategy.

“Design Thinking made design accessible. It failed to make design responsible.”
— Oliver Spalding

👥 Who is this for?

1️⃣ CIOs & CTOs rethinking digital transformation roadmaps

2️⃣ Strategy Leads seeking outcome-driven tech investment

3️⃣ Innovation Officers designing for networked collaboration

4️⃣ Measurement & BI Teams building living dashboards for change

🔮 What we explore

1. The curse of the Hype Cycle

  • Vendor promises vs. implementor delivery vs. user adoption

  • Why $2.3 trillion is wasted globally on failed transformation

  • How to escape “quick fix-ation” and build for sustained growth

2. Designing for coherency and independence

  • Coherency: tech that enables systems, alignment, and shared language

  • Independence: tech that empowers stories, autonomy, and divergence

  • Use cases across B2B, B2C, public services, and creator economies

3. Outcome-first architecture

  • Build tech against outcomes before functions

  • Reorganize BI efforts around strategic goals, not departmental silos

  • Use transparent measures to track readiness, adaptability, and resonance.

📊 Measurement frameworks

We help teams build living dashboards that reflect dimensions like:

📐 Dimension: Coherency

📈 Sample metrics: Strategic goal alignment, experience fit, technology utilization ratio

📐 Dimension: Independence

📈 Sample metrics: Mobility & idea activation score, creative brand differentiation, adaptive redeployment

📐 Dimension: AI Readiness

📈 Sample metrics: Empathy-active listening, mixed media fluency, critical thinking, agility

These measures aren’t just KPIs, they’re signals of evolutionary transformation.

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Engagement format examples

  • “Designing the Networked Enterprise”

    Build tech strategies that prioritize outcomes and coherence

  • “Is Your DT Strategy Future-Fit?”

    A readiness assessment across coherency and independence dimensions.

  • “The Future of Strategic Collaboration”

    Why cross-functional doesn’t mean cross-purpose

🔗 Related resources

💭 Final thought

Networked design strategy isn’t just about tech, it’s about designing the conditions for evolutionary transformation. At Humans In The Machine, we help organizations move from fragmented functions to coherent futures. Because in the network economy, alignment is the new innovation.

Let’s work together