The Sage flow

Our design guide is the start of Sage’s journey in shaping their future workplace value proposition, it illustrates all the key components and how they assemble to create an epic experience for their colleagues and customers. 

spacelab_ partnered with Incendium Consulting Ltd to create a global workplace strategy which was concisely bundled into a design guide. Driven by insights gathered through an intensive research exercise, the design guide aims to deliver a foundational Sage experience globally, it will allow Sage to be consistent in how they manifest their culture and values and create places that elevate performance through flexibility, flow and connection.

The design guide serves as a tool for Sage and their partners to acquire, define, and design new (or improve existing) environments. It highlights all the different factors which make up the workplace; a ways of working guide, a space matrix, planning concepts, a design strategy and an implementation template. We even built a space calculator tool preloaded with local nuances and persona types.

The workplace strategy is structured into three main zones; Community, Activity and Neighbourhood, which are made up of a series of spaces – ‘the kit of parts’. We adapted ‘The Sage Flow’ from their brand identity as a visual and physical connector across all spaces to promote a cohesive brand experience which can be used as a communication device for digital and physical messaging which guides people through the space.