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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...
Why Organizations Need to Innovate Their Business Model Now
Why Organizations Need to Innovate Their Business Model Now
Don’t Wait for Disruption! An Interview with Business Innovation Factory's Saul Kaplan on business model des...
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...
Design is the Key to Success This Year – Make it Work For Your Team
Design is the Key to Success This Year – Make it Work For Your Team
It’s XPLANE’s year.
The Chinese Year of the Sheep is known for design and creativity and so...
Bookmark This! Change DNA Library
Bookmark This! Change DNA Library
Over the past two months we've been exploring the DNA of Change. It's been fun to assemble top thought...
Visual Thinking School Amsterdam: Behavioural Climate Change
Visual Thinking School Amsterdam: Behavioural Climate Change
Last Thursday we held Visual Thinking School (VTS) in our Amsterdam office....
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 Evolution of OMSI
The Evolution of OMSI
The Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI) is at a turning point in the evolution of its org...
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...