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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Approaching the Strategic Plan — Thoughtfully
Approaching the Strategic Plan — Thoughtfully
In January 2015, we received an RFP asking for help developing a five-year strategic plan. As an organization ...
Create an Inspiring Meeting with The Hero’s Journey Agenda
Create an Inspiring Meeting with The Hero’s Journey Agenda
Organizing a full-day offsite meeting? Leading a two-day summit for your department? Take your team on a journ...
Behind the Scenes with Design for America: The 2015 Strategic Journey
Behind the Scenes with Design for America: The 2015 Strategic Journey
This article was originally written by Design for America's Allison Chen....
How to Go on Vacation Like a Program Manager
How to Go on Vacation Like a Program Manager
We’re strong believers in work/life balance, and not the kind where you spend 50% of your vacation stres...
Focus on User-centered Design; It’s Not About the Title or The Org Chart
Focus on User-centered Design; It’s Not About the Title or The Org Chart
In the wake of some high-profile departures of communications leaders, PR Week asks whether communications and...
XPLANE Helps ICANN Envision It’s Long-Range Strategy Plan
XPLANE Helps ICANN Envision It’s Long-Range Strategy Plan
XPLANE is proud to see the conclusion of our work helping ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names a...
Defining Information Architecture Using Crowd Sourced Design Thinking
Defining Information Architecture Using Crowd Sourced Design Thinking
In today’s world we have access to an ever-growing amount of information, but it isn’t always as e...
Project Managers, Scourge or Angel? Interview with Christopher Knaus
Project Managers, Scourge or Angel? Interview with Christopher Knaus
Our very own Christopher Knaus, Director of Program Management, was recently a guest on PushPull Podcast discu...
Organizational Minimalism and the Art of Subtraction
Organizational Minimalism and the Art of Subtraction
Tis the season for home organization, cleaning up, and cleaning out. I, like many people, spent my time over t...
The Secret Genius of Weird Al’s “Mission Statement”
The Secret Genius of Weird Al’s “Mission Statement”
“Flexibility,” ”Teamwork,” and “Support” mean nothing taken out of context. Creating visuals gives...
Envisioning Future Greatness
Envisioning Future Greatness
Articulating personal or organizational aspirations can run the gamut from exhilarating to overwhelming. But t...
The Evolution of OMSI
The Evolution of OMSI
The Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI) is at a turning point in the evolution of its org...
Change Can Be Easier
Change Can Be Easier
Companies invest millions of dollars and thousands of hours on complex change initiatives to make them more co...
Design for America Creators Exchange
Design for America Creators Exchange
Design for America (DFA) is a national nonprofit organization that grew out of Northwestern University in 2009...
Changing the State of Education
Changing the State of Education
On October 26, an esteemed group of leaders from urban education, industry, universities, government, foundati...
Introducing PayPal Beacon
Introducing PayPal Beacon
To help unveil a new, high-profile product to hundreds of media and developers at the September TechCrunch Dis...