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Monash University
ENG5100 · Professional Engineer in Organisation & Society

Digital Engineering
Transition Plan

A strategic transition plan for a fictional merged engineering consultancy — team leadership, EDI strategy, hybrid work policy, and managing digital-era workload.

Type
Team Project (4)
Date
June 2025
My role
Report author
Team project, 4 people. The written report was authored by me; the scenario below is the brief we were responding to as a team.

The scenario

Three engineering firms — a city-based practice, a Sunshine-based immigrant-staffed firm, and Rainbow Engineering — merge to form Digital Edge Consulting (DEC). As the newly formed transition team, the brief called for a written report to DEC's Executive covering a Strategic Thinking Flowchart, key issues to address, a Teams & Leadership analysis, a Staff Engagement Plan, an EDI strategy, Hybrid Work Guidelines, and a Client Engagement Plan — plus a team-delivered video presentation.

Extract from the report showing DEC hybrid workplace and staff engagement analysis
Extract from the report — DEC hybrid workplace and staff engagement analysis.

Strategic thinking flowchart

Mapped DEC's cultural integration issues, resistance to Digital Engineering adoption, cross-location team risks, and potential client dissatisfaction into a structured decision flow to guide the rest of the transition plan.

Hybrid work model

Weighed the benefits — productivity, work-life balance, reduced overhead — against DEC-specific risks: employee isolation, language barriers across the merged firms, and split collaboration modes. Recommendations were tailored to DEC's actual situation, including accommodations for staff with disabilities.

EDI strategy

Built a value-led, action-oriented framework covering representation tracking across hiring and promotion, psychological safety, zero-tolerance for discrimination with anonymous reporting, inclusive and servant leadership training, and a rotating team-level EDI ambassador model.

Mindfulness & leadership

Addressed the impact of digital-era distraction — referencing average human attention spans of roughly 8 seconds and a 40% productivity loss from multitasking — with a proposed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, situational leadership coaching, and email-free work blocks.

Frameworks applied

Referenced course frameworks throughout, including Maslow's hierarchy, the ADDIE training model, and the Situational Leadership Model — each applied specifically to DEC's merger context rather than generically restated.

Tools & skills