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Augment Your Long-Term Strategy with a Near-Term Resilience Plan
Augment Your Long-Term Strategy with a Near-Term Resilience Plan
In times of crisis, a resilience plan can help your organization quickly pivot existing strategies and navigat...
Re-designing an Awesome Meeting Experience, Remotely
Re-designing an Awesome Meeting Experience, Remotely
We're all grappling with ways to make the remote experience more human, activate the senses, and create “aha...
XPLANE’s Top 25 Tips and Tricks for Remote Collaboration
XPLANE’s Top 25 Tips and Tricks for Remote Collaboration
XPLANE's top 25 tried-and-true tips for making the most of remote meetings and collaboration....
Overcome Strategy Failure: Three Principles to Bring Your Strategy to Life
Overcome Strategy Failure: Three Principles to Bring Your Strategy to Life
Move your organization to the 20% that succeeds in implementing a strategy with these three powerful principle...
Navigating the Post-Hierarchical Organization
Navigating the Post-Hierarchical Organization
Organizational structure is experiencing a radical change. Horizontal relationships are overtaking the hierarc...
New Ways to Keep Remote Workers Engaged
New Ways to Keep Remote Workers Engaged
As the number of remote workers continues to grow, team leaders and managers must find new ways to keep them f...
XPLANE Launches Hub to Help Practitioners Accelerate Positive Change
XPLANE Launches Hub to Help Practitioners Accelerate Positive Change
Explore powerful tools and resources designed to create organizational change, inspire ideas, and fuel transfo...
Two Fun Ways to Get Your Strategy Off the Ground (Part 2 of 2)
Two Fun Ways to Get Your Strategy Off the Ground (Part 2 of 2)
We share why so many strategies fail and how you can avoid strategy failure using a few tricks XPLANE has fine...
What Is Strategy? (Part 1 of 2)
What Is Strategy? (Part 1 of 2)
What does the word strategy mean to you? Here, we define what strategy is and what differentiates a good strat...
How I Created Clarity Around Financial Information Using Visuals
How I Created Clarity Around Financial Information Using Visuals
When you want to help employees better understand complex concepts and ideas, try drawing. Here's why....
XPLANE Expands to Spain and Latin America
XPLANE Expands to Spain and Latin America
Portland-based design consultancy XPLANE today announced that it is expanding its operations to Spain and Lati...
The Three Elements Needed to Craft an Effective Visual Strategy
The Three Elements Needed to Craft an Effective Visual Strategy
When you’re a designer faced with synthesizing mountains of disparate information into a concise visual, you...
The Power of the Playbook
The Power of the Playbook
Playbooks are a powerful tool to help business teams not only to act as one but also to adapt as one. They sha...
Why the Most Effective Operations Managers Truly Value Great Culture
Why the Most Effective Operations Managers Truly Value Great Culture
Your organization’s ability to execute—to operate effectively and efficiently—is directly related to the...
Published on Forbes: Seven Steps For Bringing Design Thinking To Your Sales Processes
Published on Forbes: Seven Steps For Bringing Design Thinking To Your Sales Processes
Use these seven design thinking lessons–specifically service design–to inform a better sales process for y...
What Is Visual Thinking?
What Is Visual Thinking?
Visual Thinking is a methodology that uses tools to externalize internal thinking processes, making them more ...
Make Culture and Employee Engagement Your Strategic Advantage
Make Culture and Employee Engagement Your Strategic Advantage
Today’s C-Suite must put company culture and employee experience at the top of their dashboard in order to r...
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...
The Secret to Bringing Your Strategy to Life
The Secret to Bringing Your Strategy to Life
The biggest mistake leaders make in executing strategy is “throwing it over the wall” and expecting their ...
Autonomy, Process, and Learning: Principles of Digital Work
Autonomy, Process, and Learning: Principles of Digital Work
Shifting to the realities of the digital workplace is not a technical problem. It needs a realignment of minds...
How to Play PowerPoint Ping-Pong
How to Play PowerPoint Ping-Pong
Visual thinking involves people at every level in thinking through the strategy and its impacts. It's a proces...
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...