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How Design Thinking Can Help You Achieve Strategic Agility
How Design Thinking Can Help You Achieve Strategic Agility
In today’s dynamic world, an effective strategy must keep pace with change. Here’s how you can create all-...
Rethinking Customer Centricity in the Post-Pandemic Era
Rethinking Customer Centricity in the Post-Pandemic Era
The world has shifted in the past few years, and organizations that wish to remain vital now more than ever mu...
Strategy Execution Needs Human-Centered Design: Five Steps to Turn Plans into Action
Strategy Execution Needs Human-Centered Design: Five Steps to Turn Plans into Action
Strategies that are launched with a complex presentation and “cascaded” down the ranks are bound to fail. ...
Why “Customer Centricity” is a C-Suite Commitment: 12 Characteristics of a World-Class CX Strategy
Why “Customer Centricity” is a C-Suite Commitment: 12 Characteristics of a World-Class CX Strategy
What drives retention, referrals, and profitability and accelerates growth? Customer centricity, the classic o...
Without Vision, Your Strategy—and Much Else—is Hopeless
Without Vision, Your Strategy—and Much Else—is Hopeless
A compelling vision of the future can inform much more than just your next strategic plan. In fact, it’s cri...
How to Design a Strategy Execution Plan
How to Design a Strategy Execution Plan
Q: I’ve invested a lot of time and resources to create an exciting new strategy for my organization. How do ...
The Unexpected Magic of Virtual Offsites
The Unexpected Magic of Virtual Offsites
Needing to tackle a mission-critical strategy, visioning, or team-building initiative but can’t swing an in-...
Five Steps to Resilient Strategic Planning
Five Steps to Resilient Strategic Planning
Feeling worn down from constantly adapting your plans to rapidly changing conditions these days? You're not al...
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...
How to Prioritize Projects in the Time of COVID
How to Prioritize Projects in the Time of COVID
Feeling overwhelmed as the coronavirus continues to upend even your best-laid work plans? Not sure where to fo...
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...
How Experts Tap Into the Power of Visual Thinking
How Experts Tap Into the Power of Visual Thinking
Address complex organizational challenges and explore exciting new ways to create and communicate with the wor...
Into Thin Air: How Good Leaders Share Their Vision and Inspire Action
Into Thin Air: How Good Leaders Share Their Vision and Inspire Action
How business leaders can share their vision of the future and help workers move from their bustling world to t...
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...
When Your Strategy is No Longer Doing Its Job
When Your Strategy is No Longer Doing Its Job
See how the executive team kept their organization’s strategy alive and relevant by using a Kanban board to ...
XPLANE’s Visual Thinking Workshop: A Candid Review
XPLANE’s Visual Thinking Workshop: A Candid Review
Read Annie Pomeranz's review of XPLANE's Visual Thinking Trainings....
Five Surefire Signs You Need an Outside Facilitator Now
Five Surefire Signs You Need an Outside Facilitator Now
How do you know when you need to hire a consulting firm? And how can you guarantee that the investment will pa...
How much does it cost to hire XPLANE for consulting?
How much does it cost to hire XPLANE for consulting?
How much does it cost to hire XPLANE as a consulting partner? Guidance on how a design thinking consulting fir...
Five Best Practices for Implementing Your Strategy
Five Best Practices for Implementing Your Strategy
See what a successful strategy execution plan looks like, visually....
How Does a Diverse Community Come Together to Create a Single Vision of the Future?
How Does a Diverse Community Come Together to Create a Single Vision of the Future?
How our client used visual thinking & co-creation to successfully design, implement, and activate their strate...
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 Knowing Doing Gap
The Knowing Doing Gap
Large organizations have access to more of this data than anyone else, but struggle to turn that info into an ...
The Smartest Person in the Room
The Smartest Person in the Room
How can we truly collaborate, learn from each other, and get aligned in a meeting? The key is involvement....