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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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It’s Not the Why, It’s the What
It’s Not the Why, It’s the What
This is not the story of “Why” you should put pencil to paper. You should already know that starti...
5 Ways HR is Ruining Your Culture and Your Career
5 Ways HR is Ruining Your Culture and Your Career
Let me first start by saying I love being an HR professional. I love the insight that the profession giv...
Working life in Amsterdam and XPLANE – A Good Match!
Working life in Amsterdam and XPLANE – A Good Match!
Amsterdam the city of canals, bikes, sex, and drugs. For most people outside of the Netherlands these are the ...
How to Provide Actionable and Consolidated Feedback – A Five Step Process
How to Provide Actionable and Consolidated Feedback – A Five Step Process
“Should we use a different color here?” “Per Katie this needs to include a CTA.” &ldqu...
Envisioning Future Greatness
Envisioning Future Greatness
Articulating personal or organizational aspirations can run the gamut from exhilarating to overwhelming. But t...
Explaining How the Technical Level of the Internet works!
Explaining How the Technical Level of the Internet works!
Over the past few years our client ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has expande...
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...
Interview with Helena Hong, New Employee Experience Coordinator
Interview with Helena Hong, New Employee Experience Coordinator
Tell us briefly about your role at XPLANE:
“My new role at XPLANE is Employee Experience Coordinator. I ...
Card Decks: Tactile Tools for Pattern-Finders, Integrative-Thinkers and Inspiration-Seekers
Card Decks: Tactile Tools for Pattern-Finders, Integrative-Thinkers and Inspiration-Seekers
What do the Table of Elements, the first IBM computer, and the novel Lolita have in common? Before they were i...
Gamestorming Workshop at Nike
Gamestorming Workshop at Nike
We had the great honor of being invited to deliver a workshop for Nike’s Transition Management community...
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...
25 Ideas for Visual Parenting
25 Ideas for Visual Parenting
Visual tools are amazing for communicating and collaborating with kids. Studies show that visuals help childre...
Three Little Meetings That Just Might Change Your Game
Three Little Meetings That Just Might Change Your Game
Simple in form, profound in results, XPLANE’s “non-negotiable” Trifecta aligns us in the pre...
Helping to visualize the future of Internet Governance!
Helping to visualize the future of Internet Governance!
By Patrick Dodson, SVP of Business Development
We’re excited to share our work helping to visualize and ...
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...
XPLANE Amsterdam Holds Open House and Designer Training
XPLANE Amsterdam Holds Open House and Designer Training
On Thursday March 13th we held an open house to welcome friends of XPLANE to our new Amsterdam office, located...
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...
Visual Meetings Workshop at the Oregon Department of Education
Visual Meetings Workshop at the Oregon Department of Education
We had the honor of being invited by the Oregon Department of Education to deliver a derivative version of our...
Inside XPLANE
Inside XPLANE
Every once in awhile, our creative team does work for XPLANE about XPLANE, check it out here:
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