> So my work in "Digital Transformation" is a two part challenge of teaching management to think of their IT department as a source of creative energy and not bricklayers, while trying to get the engineers out of the mindset of bricklayers themselves after many years of being shoehorned.

You're doing the work of a higher order function there. You have my thanks.

I've worked in environments where this type of change has been attempted. It's not easy and does run the risk of running VERY awry.