HITMˣE® for Corporates
Humans In The Machine is for any person, leader, or organisation wanting to become enthusiastic about the future, wanting to change but lacking the clarity, creativity and conviction to do so with courage.
Corporate
From end-up legacy to upend energy. Reinventing large organisations for the network economy.
You’re a marketing, technology, CX, product or HR leader navigating and executing transformation inside a large organisation. We help you diagnose systemic blockers, align teams, and design ecosystems that make creativity and change last, not just signals.
Problem: Corporate change-makers aren’t set up to last, leaving large organisations stuck with their legacy. CMOs, CPOs & CHROs in charge of mastering change, innovation and user-centricity stay less time than the rest of C-suite. (Korn Ferry)
Traditional consulting fails corporations by pairing magical thinking with efficiency measures. HITMˣE® helps leaders build dimensional capability from complexity; the ability to hold tension, navigate ambiguity, and design for consequence.
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These are the things we hear from executives and leaders seeking support, expressing pain and distress and where we can help:
"We cycle through growth and transformation leaders every 18 months, resetting strategy before any program reaches operational maturity."
"Marketing promises an experience Product didn't build, CX handles the fallout, and HR is left trying to culture-hack a structurally broken workflow."
"We agree on corporate strategy in the boardroom, but the second an initiative spans multiple budgets and reporting lines, momentum falters."
"Every time we introduce a new strategic initiative, it gets swallowed by day-to-day operational noise because teams are incentivized on legacy BAU metrics."
"We spend 18 months and millions planning transformation and innovation initiatives, but by the time they launch, customer needs have shifted and usage craters."
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Pain narrows focus. It clouds our judgement, boosts stress levels and forces us into the quickest of fixes.
1) “Reveal & Release” session
A focused conversation to understand where you are at, your goals, surface the pain points, and get a feel for which of the 10 common startup pains are slowing you down.
2) Diagnosis
Our proprietary process equates business systems to human systems to make your real blockers more tangible and relatable. You get a clear picture of what’s working, what isn’t, and what to fix first to relieve growing pain.
3) Targeted workstreams
Problem-based assignments are designed to solve the specific issues uncovered in diagnosis — not generic or paint-by-numbers consulting. We don’t avoid the problem and we don’t move on until it is sufficiently relieved.
4) Narrative development
Translating setup work into a living, evolving story that makes sense, so customers, partners and investors immediately understand your value whether that is brand architecture, customer experiences or staff communications.
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Collaborative design and innovation
The latest thinking and open-source models or frameworks that enable groups of experts of different experience levels to ideate, create and develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
Minimum Lovable Product
We shape transformation initiatives into the smallest version customers will genuinely care about, meaning the core problem you solve, who it’s for, why it matters and the mission behind it. Helping Corporates upend their conventions through a creative process for change.
Outcomes-based organisation
Big businesses do not want to burden BAU processes, Outcomes-Based Models find key inflection points in existing processes to coordinate better team working and goal alignment.
Factional leadership & transformation therapy
A live‑brief program for executives tackling complex barriers to change. We work alongside leaders using the “buddy system” — real problems, real results.
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In a nutshell, strategic clarity, creative momentum, and leadership coherence that make transformation last. All of which is linked to outcome-based metrics.
Realism: Aligned vision and strategic clarity for digitalisation and CX, emphasising creative problem solving in addressing pain points.
Resilience: Enhanced team accountability and focus on measurable impact that drives both co-operation and collaboration.
Divergence: Innovation through balanced independence and collaboration, unlocking diverse expertise and breakthrough ideas.
Coherence: Ongoing coaching and leadership support for executives against aligned initiatives, programs or roadmap.
Cross-functional initiatives fail in the handoffs, not the strategy. Schedule a free “Reveal & Release” consultation to identify where your current execution is stalling and begin the process of fixing it.
What if we imagined tech’s role in a new consensus?
“Cross-functional collaboration yields worse revenue outcomes” (Gartner)
Systems:
Don’t just collaborate, systemise cooperation.
Don’t measure impact in isolation, recognize intangible and personal impacts through integrated accountability.
Don’t ignore, adopt proven systems for human-centred design and innovation making use of common languages.
“Brands need to move on from effectiveness and solve for influence” (McKinsey)
Stories:
Don’t stifle difference, embrace independence.
Don’t burden BAU processes, find inflection points to bring teams together and formulate outcomes-based models.
Don’t re-org, re-design to reflect a more nuanced view of contribution and set-out the right degrees of freedom.
A new tech consensus built on cultures of enthusiasm.
Stories
Systems
Don’t stifle difference, embrace independence.
Don’t just collaborate, systemise cooperation.