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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...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Discover How to Change Your Company Culture
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Discover How to Change Your Company Culture
Four tools to help you implement lasting change in your company culture without fearing revolt and chaos....
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....
Improve Communication Skills by Using Visuals: A Case for Visual Literacy
Improve Communication Skills by Using Visuals: A Case for Visual Literacy
If visual language is so universally and rapidly understood, why don’t we use it more often? Can this valuab...
Why Digital Transformation Isn’t About Digital
Why Digital Transformation Isn’t About Digital
Why do digital transformation efforts remain incredibly difficult to do successfully? Most don’t focus enoug...
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...
Organizational Adulting: You Are What and How You Communicate
Organizational Adulting: You Are What and How You Communicate
Radical shifts are happening in the way we communicate at work. What and how we communicate can mean the diffe...
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...
Organizational Adulting: Overcoming Apathy and Disengagement in the Workplace
Organizational Adulting: Overcoming Apathy and Disengagement in the Workplace
Disengaged employees are not doomed to soul-destroying days in the office. When we build meaning into our work...
Organizational Adulting: Divisive Workplace Behaviors and How to Overcome Them
Organizational Adulting: Divisive Workplace Behaviors and How to Overcome Them
70% of XPLANE community survey respondents felt divisive workplace behaviors were their biggest organizational...