Matt Little is an experienced founding team member who has been through 5 exits (co-leading two, advising on a further two and technical lead on another) and he now helps companies to scale faster and better. In the past 20 years, Matt has led divisions and teams in start-ups, scale-ups and global multi-nationals.

Matt’s company, Blue Ocean Insight Ltd, uses his experience to help companies scale efficiently and innovate faster whilst understanding their product, team and technology risks.

 Who uses Blue Ocean Insight?

  • Rapidly growing companies that want to achieve rapid growth but do not know how to scale a technology or product function

  • Companies that are unclear how to manage risks as they scale

  • Investors who believe in a team or idea but feel that the leadership needs additional experience on a temporary or ongoing basis

  • Teams seeking to prepare the product and technology functions for an exit or investor due diligence process

What do we do?

  • Work with C-Level team members to link product strategy and development to overall growth strategy

  • Increase the rate of innovation from the product teams through structural or process improvements

  • Quantify current product and technology risk and align it to a company’s overall risk appetite

  • Coach and mentor C-Level and other senior team members

What are our values?

  • Build the vision – If you know where you want to go, it makes it easier to plan a route.

  • Uncover the value – You grow faster and more effectively by understanding what you are doing that delivers value to your customers (and what does not).

  • Always focus on ‘The Thing’ - Align your teams, processes, and company behind delivering ‘The Thing’ that matters.

  • Have fun doing It - Teams who enjoy what they do and are all going in the same direction work more effectively and deal better with complex challenges.