- Trending:
- Visual Thinking
- Culture
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...
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 ...
With Increased Team Diversity, Establishing Your Ways of Working is More Critical than Ever
With Increased Team Diversity, Establishing Your Ways of Working is More Critical than Ever
There is no secret recipe for high-performing teams, but establishing agreements and norms for how you work to...
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...
Olfactoral Thinking: Pushing the Boundaries of Design and Visual Thinking
Olfactoral Thinking: Pushing the Boundaries of Design and Visual Thinking
Design Thinking has been gaining momentum in the business world as a method for problem solving. Visual Thinki...
The Origin of xDays
The Origin of xDays
I recently published a post on a new practice we are trying this year called xDays. The basic idea is this:
x...
Investing in Innovation: One Day, Every Month
Investing in Innovation: One Day, Every Month
xDay is one full working day per month we set aside from client and company work to focus on individual and or...
Visual Process Innovation: Phase 4 – Activate
Visual Process Innovation: Phase 4 – Activate
Implementing a new process is often where organizations undercut their plan by not focusing time and resources...
Visual Process Innovation: Phase 3 – Validate
Visual Process Innovation: Phase 3 – Validate
Process validation helps you learn what’s working and what's not before the expensive (in every way) steps o...
Visual Process Innovation: Phase 2 – Future State
Visual Process Innovation: Phase 2 – Future State
The Future State phase visually maps the new process from beginning to end. That sounds simple enough, but get...
Visual Process Innovation: Introduction
Visual Process Innovation: Introduction
A healthy process is the lifeblood of any organization. It impacts everything from efficiency and quality to c...
Visual Process Innovation: Phase 1 – Current State
Visual Process Innovation: Phase 1 – Current State
Mapping the current state of a process can be the start and end of a project. Sometimes simply articulating ho...
You Want Innovation From Your Company? Ask Them to Stop Working.
You Want Innovation From Your Company? Ask Them to Stop Working.
XPLANE sets aside one full working day per month to focus on individual and organizational innovation. This me...
Visioning and Activating Intrapreneurship Inside Large Organizations
Visioning and Activating Intrapreneurship Inside Large Organizations
The event was held at Philips’ global headquarters in Amsterdam and attended by over 100 young professionals...
The Era of Complexity: How Design Succeeds Where Management Science Fails
The Era of Complexity: How Design Succeeds Where Management Science Fails
The 20th century was the era of complicated systems and processes. Efficiency, optimization, and predictabilit...