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A Card Game to Uncover the Issues of Growth, Crisis, or Change
A Card Game to Uncover the Issues of Growth, Crisis, or Change
Faced with a torrent of high-priority needs jostling for your attention? Calm the sea of demands with a card g...
Four Steps to Drive Positive Organizational Change
Four Steps to Drive Positive Organizational Change
When it comes to change, does your organization have a fairly good grip on things or does it feel more like yo...
Finally, a Tool That Can Help Improve Employee Experience
Finally, a Tool That Can Help Improve Employee Experience
As talent pools evaporate and employees leave jobs in droves for greener pastures each year, employers are kee...
The Secret to Developing Your Staff and Improving Performance
The Secret to Developing Your Staff and Improving Performance
While domestic companies spend a staggering $100 billion per year on corporate training, only one in four busi...
Quickly Diagnose Your Organization’s Starting Point for Change
Quickly Diagnose Your Organization’s Starting Point for Change
Crafting an incisive business strategy is only the beginning of organizational change. To really get your stra...
An Employee Every Boss Needs Right Now: The Intrapreneur
An Employee Every Boss Needs Right Now: The Intrapreneur
During trying times, intrapreneurs are your allies—nay, the aces up your sleeve—for devising creative solu...
Three Ways to Banish Initiative Fatigue and Lead Change
Three Ways to Banish Initiative Fatigue and Lead Change
Feeling like you just can’t get a new idea off the ground or are talking in circles about a great new initia...
Why Digital Transformation Isn’t About Digital
Why Digital Transformation Isn’t About Digital
Why do digital transformation efforts remain incredibly difficult to do successfully? Most don’t focus enoug...
Published on Forbes: Leadership Communication During Times Of Change: 10 Ways To Move Forward Together
Published on Forbes: Leadership Communication During Times Of Change: 10 Ways To Move Forward Together
If you’re a leader guiding your organization in a new direction, here are ten best practices to keep in mind...
Three Tools to More Effectively Collaborate Across Your Organization
Three Tools to More Effectively Collaborate Across Your Organization
Organizations increasingly face the challenge of initiatives such as customer experience, user experience, and...
A Real Game Changer: Ways to Prepare Your Business for the Future
A Real Game Changer: Ways to Prepare Your Business for the Future
Customized board games can replicate a vast array of workplace dynamics and concepts, and they give teams a ne...
Execute Strategy Responsibly: 8 Tactics to Get Strategy Right
Execute Strategy Responsibly: 8 Tactics to Get Strategy Right
If you want to execute your organization's strategy responsibly, use these eight tactics to successfully activ...
Design Thinking for Transformational Change
Design Thinking for Transformational Change
An interview with XPLANE client partner and Portland State University thought leader Sukhwant Jhaj about using...
Five Best Practices for Implementing Your Strategy
Five Best Practices for Implementing Your Strategy
See what a successful strategy execution plan looks like, visually....
Super Summit: Smashing Silos and Stretching Minds
Super Summit: Smashing Silos and Stretching Minds
How three days of company-wide training broke down silos and transformed our company culture....
XPLANE’s Partner Rackspace Helps Navigate Your Journey to the Cloud
XPLANE’s Partner Rackspace Helps Navigate Your Journey to the Cloud
Winning companies foster innovation, quickly respond to market changes, and adapt to business fluctuations. Ra...
The Barrier to Company-Wide Innovation
The Barrier to Company-Wide Innovation
Companies need adapt and organize in a radically different way to lead in the future. Organizations need to fo...
Becoming a Values-based, Purpose-led Organization
Becoming a Values-based, Purpose-led Organization
CEO Aric Wood announces that XPLANE just became a Certified B Corporation!...
The Key to Implementing Company-Wide Change
The Key to Implementing Company-Wide Change
If you want to make a large change in your business strategy or company culture, it’s vital that your employ...
Creating Collaboration in a Room Full of Opinions
Creating Collaboration in a Room Full of Opinions
If the smartest person in the room is the room, it’s important to give the introverts and extroverts an equa...
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture with the activation curve, culture map, and empathy map fro...
Behind the Scenes with Design for America: The 2015 Strategic Journey
Behind the Scenes with Design for America: The 2015 Strategic Journey
This article was originally written by Design for America's Allison Chen....
What is Culture Mapping and Why Should You Care?
What is Culture Mapping and Why Should You Care?
60-70 percent of change initiatives fail to meet their stated objectives, and the primary source of that failu...
A Brief History of Co-Creation
A Brief History of Co-Creation
Co-Creation is a powerful concept: engaging broad stakeholders in a design or problem-solving process as co-de...