Miro & NEXT: Creating the future of business design — and it’s remote

Making business design visual and collaborative for distributed team

Empathy map. User journey. Storyboard. Just a few of the highly visual and collaborative business design tasks in NEXT. These tasks are often synonymous with high-energy in-person creative workshops during which walls are covered with stickies.

Organizations are facing a once-in-every-few-centuries’ disruption. To respond, an increasing number of organizations are adopting business design as an everyday practice to transform their offerings, create new customer experiences, and innovate new disruptive or circular business models. But with hundreds of projects on the go, bringing teams together at every step of the process for workshop-style events isn’t always possible.

Then there is the rise of remote working — 70% of people globally work remotely at least once a week, not to mention the proliferation of distributed teams that rarely meet face to face. You may be working with people in Lagos, New York City, or Shanghai, as well as teams across the road.

“The way work gets done is changing rapidly”, said Moodi Mahmoudi, Cofounder of NEXT. “At NEXT, we wake up every morning to make sure the ‘new normal’ is a better normal.”

That’s why we’re announcing a partnership with Miro, a leading online visual collaborative whiteboarding platform. NEXT’s partnership with Miro means you’ll spend less time traveling and coordinating and more time innovating, transforming, and designing offerings that delight your customers — all remotely.

Here’s how:

Open a note in NEXT and embed a Miro board

You can now bring your Miro board with ideas, user journeys, stakeholder maps, or more into your note. Simply type /command and choose Miro from the drop-down. Paste the link to your Miro board and seamlessly add a creative collaborative layer for your team to work in Miro and NEXT ad the same time.

All your data in one place

Once your work is done in Miro write up the notes of your work in the note in NEXT and highlight relevant insights. All your data in a single place 😌We’re committed to building the next generation of capabilities that grow growth work. By making it easier for teams to collaborate in visual online whiteboards and bring it together in NEXT, we know we can deliver on our mission of making business design seamless, productive and delightful — remote or in the office.Stay tuned for more updates here on the blog and by subscribing to our launch notes.