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. 

Whitepaper: Growth Mapping for Gen AI product

In this whitepaper, Marc De Pape sought an interesting company to demonstrate the Growth Mapping process.

Growth Mapping: A look behind the curtain

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Case study: Discovering the right problem to solve

Like many start-ups, PartnerSlate was built on the experience and expertise of its founders.

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.

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.

Empowering a newly acquired start-up for enterprise innovation

When large enterprises need to accelerate growth and secure their market position, purchasing a promising start-up can be a pragmatic approach to expanding their product portfolio and broadening or deepening their capabilities.

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.

Dismantling silos and aligning teams in Enterprise Organizations

There are many pitfalls that companies fall into when multiple teams deliver on a broader vision.

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.

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.

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.