The Return of Big Swing Innovation

After years of optimizing for incremental improvements and feature maintenance, most corporate teams have lost their capacity for transformative innovation. The innovation muscle has atrophied in many organizations, and that’s not easy to rebuild.

Your Competitive Edge in Context

In 2011, Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Today, that prophecy has been fulfilled—but there’s a plot twist that’s reshaping how we think about software’s role in business success.

How Tech Founders Can Leverage Consultants For Startup Success

Leading a fast-growing, funded tech startup can be exhilarating, exciting and…exhausting. After securing funding, founders often find themselves quickly consumed by the weight of investors’ high expectations.

Balancing Risk and Reward: Sightglass completes SOC 2 examination

While “moving fast and breaking things” might sound exciting, it’s not a recipe for successful innovation in an era of increasing complexity, regulation, and heightened security needs.

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.

How startups can accelerate growth in a new funding landscape

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. 

Why founders should care if they are optimized for delivery or discovery

Knowing whether your product innovation process is optimized for delivery or discovery can significantly impact a product’s success and its users’ satisfaction. Which process your organization optimizes comes down to what it values: outcomes or outputs. 

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.

Energy Is Having Its ‘Aha’ Moment—What It Means For Climate Tech

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.

Case Study: De-risking Innovation

When ideas are abundant but resources limited, how do you prioritize what innovation efforts will deliver actual value?

Putting windows on the AI Black Box

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.

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.

AI’s Promise For More Humane Technology

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.

Ensure Your Best Ideas Don’t Get Trapped In A ‘Black Box’

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.

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.

Case Study: Building an Innovation Culture

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

How To Rally An Innovative Business Culture

When most of us think of an innovation culture, we think of a workplace where teams can “move fast and break things.”