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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...
Organizational Adulting: Your Barriers + Our Insights = A Live Conversation
Organizational Adulting: Your Barriers + Our Insights = A Live Conversation
Non-adult behaviors are significant barriers to organizational change. It’s is time to have real conversatio...
Introduction to Organizational Adulting: Insights That Lead to Better Ways of Working
Introduction to Organizational Adulting: Insights That Lead to Better Ways of Working
With over 25+ years of culture mapping experience, XPLANE has uncovered many work behaviors and interactions t...
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...
Kindergarten Boardroom
Kindergarten Boardroom
The power of Visual Thinking. Even five year old kids are easily engaged, enabled, paid attention with respect...
XPLANE Honored as Best For Workers 2018
XPLANE Honored as Best For Workers 2018
XPLANE Honored as Best For Workers, Creating Most Positive Impact for Employees
Evaluated by Comprehensive B I...
Design Thinking for Transformational Change
Design Thinking for Transformational Change
An interview with XPLANE client partner and Portland State University thought leader Sukhwant Jhaj about using...
Join XPLANE Amsterdam for an Innovation Culture Workshop!
Join XPLANE Amsterdam for an Innovation Culture Workshop!
Join us for a rare and unique opportunity to learn from the creators of the Business Model Canvas, the Lean UX...
Building a Customer-centric Culture by Visualizing Your Customer’s Experience
Building a Customer-centric Culture by Visualizing Your Customer’s Experience
How visual customer journey mapping can align your team, uncover opportunities, and jumpstart your journey to ...
Five Business Challenges Leaders Need to Address in 2018
Five Business Challenges Leaders Need to Address in 2018
What are the big challenges that leaders of today are facing? Here are five trends that we've found in our wor...
Danoosh Kapadia Joins XPLANE as VP of Business Development
Danoosh Kapadia Joins XPLANE as VP of Business Development
Danoosh Kapadia has joined XPLANE as Vice President of Business Development, managing the North American busin...
Confusion is Expensive: Find Clarity and Drive Success with Visual Thinking
Confusion is Expensive: Find Clarity and Drive Success with Visual Thinking
Organizational confusion happens when you lose track of what, why, & how you work together. Visual Thinking he...
Implementation is Where Good Process Improvement Plans Go to Die
Implementation is Where Good Process Improvement Plans Go to Die
Six steps to save your process improvement plan from dying out....
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 ...
Tackling Company Culture Through Business Change on the Worklife Podcast
Tackling Company Culture Through Business Change on the Worklife Podcast
When it comes to communicating change in an organization, many leaders say their biggest challenge is company ...
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....
Millennial Management is a Two-Way Street
Millennial Management is a Two-Way Street
Are you ready to move beyond generational biases in the workplace? We partnered with AmCham NL to visualize a ...
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...
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....