From Sprint To Marathon: Nurturing Founders Through Strategic Partnerships

In the fast-paced world of tech entrepreneurship, founders often find themselves locked in a perpetual sprint, driven (often ragged) by the relentless pursuit of growth. Unsurprisingly, operating at such a pace isn’t sustainable for founders or their organizations—often leading to burnout, stress and a narrow focus on short-term survival rather than longer-lasting performance.

Insight with Foresight: Navigating growth-stage pains

In this webinar, Sightglass Partner, Matthew Tobiasz chats with Christopher Naismith, CEO and founder of Audette.io. about the ways late-stage startups can navigate growth-stage pains.

Spotlight on: Brandt Roberts, Head of Growth

Brandt Roberts’ career has spanned operations, venture and private equity. Joining Sightglass enables Brandt to apply that experience to help early-stage start-ups scale impactfully and efficiently.

Insight with Foresight

In this webinar, Sightglass Partner, John Jarosz chats with Christopher Naismith, CEO and founder of Audette.io. John and Christopher chat about the challenges and opportunities facing climate tech founders.

Case Study: Clearing a path to revenue in clean-tech

Achieving net-zero emissions is a complicated problem to solve in itself, but building a venture to contribute to that reduction increases the pressure on the founders to establish a sustainable business for themselves, their people, their investors, their customers, and the planet.

Insight with Foresight: How can DEI support innovation?

Sightglass Partner, John Jarosz chats with Lindsey TH Jackson, CEO of LTHJ Global and founder of SourjournDEI. Lindsey shares her experiences working with investors and consultants as a BIPOC tech founder.

Sightglass earns LGBT Business Enterprise certification

Sightglass Partners is excited to announce the firm’s certification as an LGBT Business Enterprise® by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, the national business voice of the LGBT community.

Insight with Foresight Webinar: How do I integrate AI into my business?

In this webinar, John Jarosz chats with data scientist, journalist and member of the Sightglass Network, Gary Biggs, about how to integrate AI into your business practices.

Feeling behind on AI? An AI Governance Team puts you a step ahead

ChatGPT has triggered a gold rush of companies planning some implementation of a large language model (LLM) to transform their business.

Top Five Habits That Business Schools Should Be Teaching

Disclosure: While I’ve been counseling business leaders for over a decade, I do not have an MBA. I earned my master’s in human-computer interaction, a form of cognitive psychology that makes me a (cough, cough) humanities grad.

Ensuring Your Merger Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Acquired Parts

The goal of a merger or acquisition is to create a new entity that’s greater than the sum of its parts. When that merger involves product suites spanning multiple services on either side, the level of complexity rises exponentially—but so does the growth potential.

Whitepaper: DE&I: An Integrated Perspective

DE&I isn’t just good for your community.
It’s good for business.

Case Study: Building an Innovation Culture

An innovation culture is an excellent ideal. How do you build one that works in the real world?

Spotlight on: Marc De Pape, Principal Product Consultant

Marc first met future Sightglass founders John Jarosz, Matthew Tobiasz, and Patti Purcell at Thoughtworks, where he was a designer with a compulsion to understand why a particular strategic path was being taken. Now as part of the Sightglass Team, Marc is helping companies ensure that what they’re building will actually deliver a better customer experience and overall ROI.

Five Tips For Prepping Your Innovation Roadmap In A Recession

As we look ahead to 2023, talks of global recessions are dominating boardroom discussions. Of course, managing a business during a recession is not easy. But not knowing when the recession will end is especially challenging.

Seeing ahead by looking back

Just over a year ago, three friends—a product designer, a technologist, and a business strategist—joined forces to launch a different innovation consultancy.

Combining companies starts with aligning your people on the experience

For enterprise companies that make acquisition part of their growth strategy, a lack of team alignment creates an “us-versus-them” scenario that blocks innovation.

The disruption is the experience

Technology doesn’t drive disruption. Experience does.

Outside-In perspective gives incoming CPO much-needed foresight

The role of Chief Product Officer can cover many core functions. It can include go-to-market strategy, but it can also include project and operational management and even feature decisions, design and analysis. Finding one person who is an expert within all of these areas is like finding the unicorn every start-up is trying to become.

An Employee Stack is the backbone of your Employee Experience

Take the same diligence you bring to your product experience to build a more practical and efficient employee experience.

An employee journey maps the route to improved employee experiences

Considerable time is spent on the customer journey, but what do we know of our employee journey?

Employee Experience design starts with making work easy

Since remote and hybrid working is not going to change, it’s time to revisit how we design employee experiences.  

Spotlight on: Jessi O’Neill, Principal Design Consultant

Jessi O’Neill, Principal Design Consultant at Sightglass, has worked with the world’s leading workforce and HR management services companies, where she was accountable for designing, operationalizing, and scaling customer-centric product experiences.

The DE&I value proposition

The (very welcome) uptick in diversity-led private equity firms is prompting many in the space to look at themselves and their portfolio through a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive lens. Not only because it’s the right thing to do – it’s a way to give your firm a distinctly strategic value proposition.

Make DE&I less daunting

Implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) principles into your product and service experience, you bring more relevance to your end-users and create a more impactful and lasting emotional reaction that builds customer loyalty and additional useability. But it can also seem like a daunting exercise.  

Experience exponential growth

If you want to see 2X the growth across your portfolio of companies, hire a management consultancy to enhance operations. Want 3X the growth? Hire a design and delivery firm to make more profitable products. But if you want 50X the growth across your entire portfolio of business, focus on the end-user experience.

Starting up?
Start with DE&I 

Over the last number of years, DE&I has become a mega-trend, not for great headlines but for great business. Your goal as a founder is to zig while others are zagging, and DE&I is an element you don’t want to ignore.

Digital transformation:
fails and fixes

Digital transformations often feel lack-lustre – or fail outright – because the program only focused only on ways to digitize products, services, and processes. But you’re still left with the same conflicted relationships to customers.