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In 1999, XPLANE created one of the first business blogs. We have been adding great insights ever since. Check out our latest posts, filled with ideas for designing, facilitating, and creating lasting change for people and organizations.
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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...
A Business Within The Business: Aligning Your Employees, Managers, and Owners
A Business Within The Business: Aligning Your Employees, Managers, and Owners
Is there a way to get everyone in your company to act like owners? Yes, but not without changing the structure...
Becoming a Values-based, Purpose-led Organization
Becoming a Values-based, Purpose-led Organization
CEO Aric Wood announces that XPLANE just became a Certified B Corporation!...
Conscious Business Practice: Vision and Strategic Planning for Non-Profits
Conscious Business Practice: Vision and Strategic Planning for Non-Profits
We're broadening our focus to include the growing world of conscious business—organizations making an impact...
Why XPLANE Became a Certified B-Corporation
Why XPLANE Became a Certified B-Corporation
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The Key to Implementing Company-Wide Change
The Key to Implementing Company-Wide Change
If you want to make a large change in your business strategy or company culture, it’s vital that your employ...
Exploring New Worlds with PNCA: Using Design Frameworks to Map Out Stranger Things and the Future of National Parks
Exploring New Worlds with PNCA: Using Design Frameworks to Map Out Stranger Things and the Future of National Parks
We believe visuals bring clarity to strategies inside of organizations. We worked with PNCA to use this thinki...
Why Flat Teams Need Nurturing in Work Magazine
Why Flat Teams Need Nurturing in Work Magazine
Consultant Nina Narelle was interviewed for a short piece in Work magazine. In today's complex business enviro...
Creating Collaboration in a Room Full of Opinions
Creating Collaboration in a Room Full of Opinions
If the smartest person in the room is the room, it’s important to give the introverts and extroverts an equa...
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 ...
Create Change By Redesigning Your Thinking – Dave Gray on the Business Model Sandbox Podcast
Create Change By Redesigning Your Thinking – Dave Gray on the Business Model Sandbox Podcast
Create Change By Redesigning Your Thinking - Dave Gray on the Business Model Sandbox Podcast...
Breaking Down Design Thinking – Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast
Breaking Down Design Thinking – Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast
Breaking Down Design Thinking - Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast...
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon...
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....
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture with the activation curve, culture map, and empathy map fro...
How Do You Communicate Effectively in the Workplace? Use Visuals.
How Do You Communicate Effectively in the Workplace? Use Visuals.
Five reasons why it’s time to normalize the work doodle and start communicating with your employees using vi...
Design Consultants vs. Regular Consultants: The Thinkers, Makers, and Doers of Strategy
Design Consultants vs. Regular Consultants: The Thinkers, Makers, and Doers of Strategy
Most companies don't lack good strategies, but fail at implementing them. That is where a design consultancy c...
Three Exercises For Creating High-Performing Teams
Three Exercises For Creating High-Performing Teams
What makes a team effective? Why do some teams make one another stronger while others tear each other down? Ca...
Pop-Up XPLANE Recap: Our Design Thinking Discussion, Visualized
Pop-Up XPLANE Recap: Our Design Thinking Discussion, Visualized
For our third night of our Pop-Up XPLANE adventure in Detroit, we hosted a panel of brainiacs at DC3 to d...
What Books Shape the Way You Work?
What Books Shape the Way You Work?
We recently asked the XPLANE studio: What books most shape the way you work?...
Four Steps to Implement a Sustainability Team at Your Office
Four Steps to Implement a Sustainability Team at Your Office
This fall we officially launched BAT, XPLANE’s Betterment Action Team. BAT’s cross-functional team...
Talking About Performance Management with Tamra Chandler
Talking About Performance Management with Tamra Chandler
You know the zombie-like feeling you get at the end of a long conference?...
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...
Five Ways to Improve Client Relationships
Five Ways to Improve Client Relationships
Last week I participated in an Improv Level 1 class, and aside from having a great time and earning a healthy ...