CATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design, Speaking & Training / TAG: Growth Mapping, Partnerships
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: Alignment, Continuous innovation, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Growth Strategy, Private Equity
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: Alignment, Case Study, Growth Strategy, Private Equity
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.
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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.
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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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Executive Coaching, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design / TAG: AI, Corporate Teams, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Founders
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching / TAG: Accessibility, AI, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Growth Strategy
ChatGPT has triggered a gold rush of companies planning some implementation of a large language model (LLM) to transform their business.
Read moreCATEGORY: Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching / TAG: Continuous innovation, Experience Design
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: Acquisitions, Experience Design, Mergers, Product Innovation
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.
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An innovation culture is an excellent ideal. How do you build one that works in the real world?
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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.
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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.
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Just over a year ago, three friends—a product designer, a technologist, and a business strategist—joined forces to launch a different innovation consultancy.
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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.
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Technology doesn’t drive disruption. Experience does.
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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.
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Take the same diligence you bring to your product experience to build a more practical and efficient employee experience.
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Considerable time is spent on the customer journey, but what do we know of our employee journey?
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Since remote and hybrid working is not going to change, it’s time to revisit how we design employee experiences.
Read moreCATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design / TAG: Alignment, Employee Experience
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design / TAG: Accessibility, DEI, Globalization, Private Equity
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design, Speaking & Training / TAG: Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design, Speaking & Training
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.
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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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Speaking & Training / TAG: Accessibility, DEI, Experience Design, Founders
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Executive Coaching, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design / TAG: Corporate Teams, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Growth Strategy
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.
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