When we were founded, we opted for a non-traditional ‘cyan’ company structure, a model that was developed a few years ago by the Belgian organisational expert Frederic Laloux in his book “Reinventing Organisations”.

He called his concept ‘cyan’, a colour that is found midway between green and blue. In such an organisation, there are three pillars. The first is “self-management” there is less hierarchy, decisions are made after consultation and there is room for self-correction. There are no job descriptions set in stone either, but multiple roles that match the employee’s skills and interests. The second factor is “wholeness”. The employees must be able to be themselves, and there is a commitment to work atmosphere and relaxation.

Finally, the third pillar is the belief in an “evolutionary purpose”: the organisation does not predict and plan but works naturally towards a goal. It is not an unstoppable machine, but a group of people who can adjust and adapt at any time. Or as Laloux writes:”Strategy happens organically, all the time, everywhere, as people play with ideas and test them out in the field”. All of these ideas appealed to us enormously. And so, full of conviction and with a loud ‘GO’, we decided on cyanic organisation. Hence the name CYAGO, in capital letters.