Claus Tophøj, former CEO and cofounder of NIS Solutions, had grown a successful company with users in more than thirty countries by the time of their acquisition by Acturis Group, London, in 2014. For Claus, their head office in Copenhagen was a strategic tool for making growth possible.

This commitment to the values of autonomy and accountability as nurtured through the office space is reflected in NIS’s success. The NIS application is considered a market-leading platform and had a compound revenue growth rate of about 59 percent per annum before its acquisition.

We’ve talked a lot about designing a workplace environment in which people feel at home and are collaborative, productive, purposeful, and engaged. These are strong strategic objectives, for sure. But the overall goal of every organization has to be growth—financial growth, brand growth, growth in opportunities, in your ability to attract and keep the best talent, and in the knowledge and skill of your workforce. It’s not just CEOs and their shareholders who prioritize growth as the ultimate outcome. The people employed in the business also want to be part of a successful enterprise.