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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...
Kindergarten Boardroom
Kindergarten Boardroom
The power of Visual Thinking. Even five year old kids are easily engaged, enabled, paid attention with respect...
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...
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 ...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Facilitator’s Guide to When the Group Says “Hell No”
Facilitator’s Guide to When the Group Says “Hell No”
It was 3:30pm. We were seven hours into the first day of a two-day leadership team offsite and the afternoon c...
Slow Design: XPLANE Amsterdam Takes on Visual Thinking School
Slow Design: XPLANE Amsterdam Takes on Visual Thinking School
In a results driven world where efficiency seems to be the highest priority, we work hard with a clear target ...
Liminal Thinking: The Art of Finding, Creating, and Unlocking Potential
Liminal Thinking: The Art of Finding, Creating, and Unlocking Potential
Liminal is Latin for threshold.
Literally a threshold is a doorway. But a threshold is also a starting point,...
A Brief History of Co-Creation
A Brief History of Co-Creation
Co-Creation is a powerful concept: engaging broad stakeholders in a design or problem-solving process as co-de...
Surviving the Big One: Visual Thinking Through the End of the World
Surviving the Big One: Visual Thinking Through the End of the World
Did you read that article in The New Yorker about how the big Portland earthquake will destroy our beloved Pac...
How I Discovered Visual Thinking
How I Discovered Visual Thinking
I vowed to make this co-creation a regular part of my learning process, and in doing so I soon learned that I ...
Game Design, Unreserved Creativity, and the End of the Sun: An Interview with Ryan Spangler
Game Design, Unreserved Creativity, and the End of the Sun: An Interview with Ryan Spangler
The sun is dying, and the various inhabitants of the planets in this solar system are launching one last effor...