CATEGORY: Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: Climate Tech, Founders, Private Equity
The idea of sustainability is a two-fold goal for climate-conscious businesses that have made addressing our climate crisis their mission. Because no matter how noble it is to develop an environmentally sustainable product or solution, if a company cannot find its footing and sustain operations, it will never achieve the impact it is striving for.
Read moreCATEGORY: Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: Alignment, Continuous innovation, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Founders, Growth Mapping, Growth Strategy, Private Equity, Product Innovation
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Embedded Leadership, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization / TAG: Continuous innovation, Experience Design, Founders, Growth Strategy, Product Innovation, Product Realization
Innovation doesn’t have to come with a hefty headcount. By partnering with an innovation consultancy, startups can access the specialized expertise they need to navigate critical growth phases without the long-term commitment of additional full-time staff.
Read moreCATEGORY: 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: Growth Mapping / TAG: AI, Growth Strategy, Product Innovation
Trying to determine where to invest? Looking to drive top-line revenue? Can’t focus on what opportunities to pursue? Growth Mapping is an approach that clarifies unidentified or unrealized opportunities.
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: Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: Climate Tech, Continuous innovation, Product Innovation, Technology Innovation
Once synonymous with climate skepticism, major oil, gas and natural gas players seem to be orchestrating a paradigm shift. They are not merely paying lip service to climate tech; they are actively seeking partnerships with venture funds and climate startups to redefine how and what kind of energy they deliver.
Read moreCATEGORY: Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: AI, Continuous innovation, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Growth Strategy
Artificial intelligence can do amazing things, but in many cases, we have no idea how those systems make their decisions. The lack of visibility, transparency and usability inherent to foundational AI technologies is often attributed to the nature of the AI “black box” — or how models can only be evaluated by their outputs.
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Solution Design / TAG: Accessibility, AI, Continuous innovation, DEI, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Employee Experience, Experience Design, Founders, Growth Strategy, Private Equity
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design / TAG: AI, Experience Design
If we want AI systems that get better over time and truly fulfill their potential, they will have to be implemented in a way that allows for new divergent paths and course correction. Otherwise, we’ll find ourselves running in loops.
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There’s plenty of cynicism around the opportunities of generative AI—much of it warranted. (No, I don’t want a “poison bread sandwich,” thank you very much, Savey Meal bot.) However, I see two key events as creating the ideal conditions for AI to prompt a fundamental shift in how we can make technology more humane.
Read moreCATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design, Speaking & Training / TAG: DEI, Experience Design, Founders, Private Equity
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: Concept Confidence, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design / TAG: Continuous innovation, Experience Design
In every organization, some roles have what I like to describe as a “black box” problem: Other team members know these roles are valuable, but they aren’t exactly sure what tangible value they provide. No one can accurately describe what these folks do until something tactical is released.
Read moreCATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: Case Study, Corporate Teams, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Founders, Growth Strategy
Like many start-ups, PartnerSlate was built on the experience and expertise of its founders.
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design / TAG: Corporate Teams, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Founders
Generative AI products GPT-4 and ChatGPT are clearly groundbreaking innovations. But can they generate transformative new ideas? New products, services, and businesses will certainly be built using AI — potentially with greater speed and efficiency than ever before. But don’t confuse the novelty of seemingly cogent outputs from language models with meaningful results — or valuable outcomes.
Read moreCATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design, Speaking & Training / TAG: Design Thinking, Experience Design, Growth Strategy
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst / TAG: Continuous innovation, Experience Design, Product Innovation
When most of us think of an innovation culture, we think of a workplace where teams can “move fast and break things.”
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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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design, Speaking & Training / TAG: Case Study, Growth Strategy
Just over a year ago, three friends—a product designer, a technologist, and a business strategist—joined forces to launch a different innovation consultancy.
Read moreCATEGORY: Concept Confidence, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Speaking & Training / TAG: Corporate Teams, Digital Transformation, Experience Design, Founders, Growth Strategy, Private Equity
Technology doesn’t drive disruption. Experience does.
Read moreCATEGORY: Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Speaking & Training / TAG: Case Study, Corporate Teams, Experience Design, Founders, Growth Strategy, Private Equity
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.
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.
Read moreCATEGORY: Embedded Leadership, Executive Coaching, Growth Mapping, Opportunity Catalyst, Product Realization, Solution Design / TAG: Alignment, Design Thinking, Experience Design, Growth Strategy
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.
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