Gemeente Oostkamp — Building a Hybrid Organisation, Year After Year

1. Client question
Gemeente Oostkamp, a forward-looking local government, asked Pasas to support its management team through an annual strategic “maintenance moment”. Their question was both ambitious and practical: apply the thinking from Pascal’s book “The Round Square” and help us keep building a hybrid organisation — with structure and guidance where needed, and as much ownership and co-creation with staff as possible. The recurring challenge was to bring something new every year, while continuing to build on a context we already knew well.

2. Pasas approach
The collaboration was built on trust, continuity and flexibility. Each year, the client shares rich background information in advance, after which we discuss the objectives together. Based on that input, Pascal designs and facilitates a one-day management team intervention tailored to the organisation’s current needs. The strength of the approach lay in combining fresh thinking with a deep understanding of the organisation’s history, dynamics and evolution.

3. Impact

• This long-term collaboration helps the management team keep evolving in a deliberate and grounded way.
• The annual interventions create a valued rhythm of reflection, alignment and renewal.
• They support Oostkamp in shaping its hybrid organisation step by step, balancing clarity of structure with shared ownership and co-creation.
• Because the collaboration is built on strong continuity, each intervention can go deeper, move faster and stay closely connected to what the organisation really needs.
• They keep coming back.