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Human-centered design vs. Design thinking: What’s the difference?

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How to make sales presentations more engaging & insightful

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Opportunity identification in account planning

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How I use Mural to turn ideas into market‑ready campaigns

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What is a mind map?

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12 ways Mural AI helps sales teams engage clients and drive revenue

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An illustration showing a stakeholder mapping exercise in a mural

How to create a stakeholder map [templates & examples]

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A diverse group of five people engaged in a lively office meeting around a table with laptops and documents. The atmosphere is collaborative and positive.

Crowdsourcing R&D: how visual collaboration fuels innovation in cross-industry partnerships

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From concept to launch: Build the right solutions faster with AI-powered stakeholder mapping

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AI-powered stakeholder mapping: Your shortcut to finding the real decision‑makers

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Team up on truth: Collaborative hypothesis testing with Mural

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Beyond proximity: Managing remote research with the right collaborative tools

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What is a flowchart? Examples, tips, and templates

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Beyond transactions: Elevating account planning with customer centricity

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A diverse group of six young adults sits around a table in a library, smiling and laughing with books and laptops, conveying a joyful and collaborative atmosphere.

Celebrating National Sales and Marketing Collaboration Day with 10 Mural workflows that supercharge teamwork

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20 top strategic planning tools and frameworks [templates & examples]

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The secret to scaling sales training: A visual collaboration approach

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Unlocking creativity with AI: Sparking innovation and imagination

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5 insights that could transform your go to market strategy

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How to get stakeholder buy-in for critical projects

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Six stacked books labeled Brand recall, Trust, Engagement, Conversions, Opportunities, and Experience, representing marketing or business concepts.

Storytelling in marketing: Crafting messages that stick

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Webinar recap: The power of co-creation with customers

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Context diagrams: Guide and best practices [+ Azure DevOps two-way sync]

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Business process mapping: A guide

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Building a product roadmap: Benefits and guide [+ Jira two-way sync]

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Building the ideal enterprise sales deck: A guide

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Perfecting a new product development process

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Example of affinity diagram in Mural

How to create an affinity diagram

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How to run QBRs that strengthen client relationships

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Slide decks vs. Mural: How to make more interactive sales presentations

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A guide to QBRs for sales managers

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A team of four workers collaborating, three seated at a table, one at a whiteboard

How to enable sales teams with product knowledge

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Bill and Jim talk on a video call

Elevating community engagement: Insights from Bill Johnston

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How to create a persona to level up sales with Mural

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A complete guide to sales process mapping

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Driving better outcomes: Insights from Teresa Torres

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Jim and Ashley discussing the design thinking for sales template

Ashley Welch on design thinking in sales

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A person working on a desktop computer, conducting user interviews in Mural.

The best visual note-taking strategies to supercharge your productivity

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What are wireframe tools? The ultimate guide for 2024

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Jim and Jeff discussing the transformation story template

Visualizing a transformation story: Insights from Jeff Gothelf

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Collaborative design: What is it and why does it matter?

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What is a Kanban board?

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Continuous product design: A complete guide

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What is a Jira Scrum board, and why do you need it?

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Visual collaboration: What it is & how to get started

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The 80/20 async split for Agile teams

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5 Agile Scrum board best practices for every project

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The future is how

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Teamwork makes the dream work… or does it?

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Understanding the 5 phases of project management

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Don't do this when using a flowchart builder

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The ROI of teamwork: How to quantify the value of better collaboration

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A group of four people having a discussion while sitting around a table in an office setting

How to make a digital vision board: A complete guide

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An image of a woman sitting at a desk and using a laptop computer

5 ways visual task management benefits your team

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A woman standing in front of a screen showing several charts, with an audience of several people sitting around a table in an office space

Tactical vs. strategic planning: Why you need both

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An image of the Mural marketing team during their offsite in Austin, Texas in 2023

How to run an impactful team offsite — the Mural way

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Let’s rethink how to measure productivity

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An image illustrating an asynchronous brainstorming session inside the Mural visual work platform

What is brainstorming? Definition, guide, and methods

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Why hybrid collaboration is harder than you think

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An image of a group of people outdoors holding up signs with slogans on them, including 'Can the status quo just go away already?'

Where work is going: challenging the status quo

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5 ways to improve weekly meetings with your team

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How Mural supports Agile, from learning to development

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To reimagine teamwork, reframe it as co-creation

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How to run a starbursting exercise for your next brainstorm

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An illustration of a team brainstorm happening in the Mural platform

Welcome to Mural: how to get your team started

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Fixing bad meetings isn’t enough: it’s time to reimagine them

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What is brainwriting? Methods, instructions, & templates

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How to use the rolestorming brainstorming method

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7 Tips to Take More Effective Meeting Notes

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Round robin brainstorming 101: guide, tips, and best practices

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How to run better design sprints with your team

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How to Create Better Team Charters (Free Template)

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How to succeed in the define stage of design thinking

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7 Types of Questions to Build Empathy for Design Thinking

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Embrace AI. Empower teamwork.

Introducing Mural’s New AI-Powered Teamwork Features

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Testing: A Guide to the 5th Stage of Design Thinking

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5 Strategies to Get Buy-in for New Ideas

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How to encourage thinking outside the box

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A Complete Guide to Empathy Mapping [+ Templates]

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How to Create a Customer Journey Map

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OKRs vs KPIs: What's the difference?

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20+ online warm-ups & energizers to try with your team

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Customer Journey Map Template from Mural

Mural cited as a strong performer in Forrester’s Q2 2022 Forrester Wave™: journey mapping platforms

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How to master meetings using visual collaboration

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Reimagining consultant-client collaboration with Mural

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6 tips to make daily stand-ups more effective

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A look back at the academic year

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What’s new with Mural: Butter and Embed.ly integrations, self-serve reporting for admins, and more

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Celebrating the changemakers in Mural's nonprofit community

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Teaching to prep students for their future

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Collaboration stack must-haves for hybrid teams

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Why check-ins should be part of your team meeting culture

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Virtual makeover: how embracing a digital-first mindset created global success

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4 steps to creating digital customer & employee journey maps

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Design for delight by Intuit: customer-centric design templates

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New to Mural? Get started quickly with these 10 templates

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Scrum vs. kanban board: which to use?

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9 scrum board examples to level up your project planning

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6 easy and engaging ways to onboard new collaborators to Mural

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Using visual thinking to reach your career goals

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