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In 1999, XPLANE created one of the first business blogs. We have been adding great insights ever since. Check out our latest posts, filled with ideas for designing, facilitating, and creating lasting change for people and organizations.
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The Magic of Discovery
The Magic of Discovery
Put 9 experts from 9 different organizations on a project without much direction and you are likely to have at...
Change DNA
Change DNA
Recently our team of consultants has been hard at work defining the eight design principles for organizat...
Change DNA – The 8 Principles of Change Series
Change DNA – The 8 Principles of Change Series
Ever wonder how someorganizations adapt gracefully – or even thrive – in a changing environment wh...
Portland, Where Young People Go To … Work? Building a Hipster Friendly Work Environment
Portland, Where Young People Go To … Work? Building a Hipster Friendly Work Environment
It has been said that Portland is where America’s youth goes to retire. Our coffee, beer, and bike...
The fifth in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Goodbye hierarchy. Hello organic organization.
The fifth in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Goodbye hierarchy. Hello organic organization.
In our last post, we explored how to adapt to the Business 3.0 era with Success Skill #3: “Execution and...
The fourth in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Good culture is good business.
The fourth in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Good culture is good business.
In our last post, we explored how to adapt to the Business 3.0 era with Success Skill #2: “Execution and...
The third in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Innovation. Once optional, now the rule.
The third in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Innovation. Once optional, now the rule.
By Parker Lee
President, XPLANE
In our last post, we explored how to adapt to the Business 3.0 era with Succes...
The second in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Four success skills point the way to tackling the challenge of change.
The second in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Four success skills point the way to tackling the challenge of change.
In our first Did You Know? Series post, we introduced how companies need to embrace a new way of connecting wi...
Convergence: It’s About Who You Are and the Experience You Create
Convergence: It’s About Who You Are and the Experience You Create
If you read that headline out of context, you might guess that it was in reference to a carpe diem-type affirm...
The first in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Thrive in the 21st century: introducing Business 3.0.
The first in the five-part Did You Know? Series. Thrive in the 21st century: introducing Business 3.0.
This first post of our blog Series introduces how companies need to embrace a new way of connecting with emplo...
XPLANE at 2014 ACMP Conference
XPLANE at 2014 ACMP Conference
XPLANE is excited to be sponsoring Change Management 2014, the Association of Change Management Professionals&...
XPLANE Helps HP Unlock Their Automotive Solution Story
XPLANE Helps HP Unlock Their Automotive Solution Story
Telling a good story about your solution is important. Telling the right story is critical. Recently HP partne...
Change Can Be Easier
Change Can Be Easier
Companies invest millions of dollars and thousands of hours on complex change initiatives to make them more co...
A Picture of Change Management
A Picture of Change Management
Designer Rob Dersley did an amazing job of visually capturing sessions and speeches at the recent Association ...
ACMP Europe
ACMP Europe
Thanks to everyone who came out and saw us at the recent ACMP (Association of Change Management Professionals)...
ACMP Europe Change Management Conference
ACMP Europe Change Management Conference
We’re excited to announce that XPLANE is a Gold Sponsor for the upcoming ACMP Europe Change Management C...
The Secret Ingredient for Change
The Secret Ingredient for Change
Change is not a four-letter word. But it may as well be. No one likes to change, and those who say they do, as...
XPLANE Delivers IHG Onboarding Project
XPLANE Delivers IHG Onboarding Project
XPLANE has recently completed a Distribution and Relationship Marketing (DRM) onboarding communications tool f...
Changing Change Management
Changing Change Management
Two recent blog posts on Harvard Business Review shine a light on the challenges – and opportunities &nd...
Visual Capture: Change Ambassadors
Visual Capture: Change Ambassadors
At the recent Association of Change Management Professionals annual conference XPLANE had the opportunity to n...
A Case for Change
A Case for Change
Sometimes the hardest thing about change is getting others to recognize the need for it. In early June XPLANE ...
Changing Behaviors, One VTS at a Time
Changing Behaviors, One VTS at a Time
In May, XPLANE’s public Visual Thinking School (VTS) focused on the topic of “Designing for Behavior Chang...
How to Make Changes Stick
How to Make Changes Stick
The more profound the change, the greater the effort needed to ensure long-term adoption of the changes. To fo...
Digging into Behavioral Change
Digging into Behavioral Change
Peter Cheese, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK and the MIX, authors this ...