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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....
Why you can’t execute your strategy.
Why you can’t execute your strategy.
People cannot execute a strategy they don’t understand, and they will not execute a strategy they don’t be...
If You Can Teach Your Team One Skill, Let it Be This.
If You Can Teach Your Team One Skill, Let it Be This.
Giving and receiving feedback is paramount to building a high performing team. Yet, it’s a skill we often do...
Super Summit: Smashing Silos and Stretching Minds
Super Summit: Smashing Silos and Stretching Minds
How three days of company-wide training broke down silos and transformed our company culture....
Dear Exec Team: Truly Engage Your Employees by Going Beyond the Chart
Dear Exec Team: Truly Engage Your Employees by Going Beyond the Chart
An interview with XPLANE founder Dave Gray on why and how visuals drive business results and create better com...
Visual Thinking Bootcamps – Who Should Attend? What Skills Will You Learn?
Visual Thinking Bootcamps – Who Should Attend? What Skills Will You Learn?
Whether you're a professional who wants to add visual techniques to your arsenal of communication tools, or a ...
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...
Deliver Great User-Experience in Global Organizations
Deliver Great User-Experience in Global Organizations
Many traditional organizations are now driving away both potential employees and new business by not putting t...
XPLANE Work Works: What We’ve Learned About Creating an Award-Winning Workplace
XPLANE Work Works: What We’ve Learned About Creating an Award-Winning Workplace
Awards are more than a plaque for the wall or a shiny new trophy, it’s validation directly from our own empl...
How to Measure Company Culture
How to Measure Company Culture
Few executives would disagree that the culture of an organization is a vitally important element of any strate...
XPLANE’s Partner Rackspace Helps Navigate Your Journey to the Cloud
XPLANE’s Partner Rackspace Helps Navigate Your Journey to the Cloud
Winning companies foster innovation, quickly respond to market changes, and adapt to business fluctuations. Ra...
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...