News from DigitaBlue

Follow the birth and growth of a start-up in this newsroom.

Svante Pahlman

Founder of DigitaBlue

Newsroom coverage: The start of a startup.

Feb 2022

During his post-graduate diploma studies in Digital Business at Columbia Business School and MIT back in 2020 Svante Pahlman, the founder of DigitaBlue, got a vision that should come to shape DigitaBlue. The driving forces behind his idea were fairness. Fairness to access the vast business knowledge and opportunity to apply it for any company or entrepreneur.

The education environment was a perfect platform to develop the consept, and also to test, analyse it using the latest tools applicable to the digital business models.

By mid-2021 Svante Pahlman committed 100% of his time to the start-up. Soon he gathered a team of co-founders who shared the vision and commitment of turning the idea into a business.

February 10^th, 2022 marks the event of founding DigitaBlue as a company. This day also marks the beginning phase zero of the start-up, when we begin creating and testing our technology.

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October 2024

October 2024

DigitaBlue and Gaoithe Advisory partner-up to make Generative AI practical and viable

PRESS RELEASE | 25.10.2024

The development of generative AI is accelerating across various industries, highlighting its growing significance. Generative AI includes technologies specifically designed to create new content or data that resembles existing examples, allowing for the generation of text, images, audio, and more. This technology is significantly transforming various sectors by improving creativity, efficiency, and personalisation in content generation and other processes.

While AI technologies boast impressive capabilities, utilising them effectively and practically can be challenging. Many organisations struggle to integrate these advanced systems into their workflows due to a lack of understanding of how to fully leverage their potential or align them with specific business goals. As a result, organisations often feel uncertain about the necessary steps to meaningfully implement generative AI in their operations. “Therefore, DigitaBlue and Gaoithe Advisory have teamed up to leverage generative AI by providing innovative solutions and expertise. Our collaboration aims to drive essential cultural changes and offer tools and processes for effective implementation, helping organisations collaborate, transform and improve outcomes”, says Svante Pahlman, CEO and founder of DigitaBlue. Patrick Halford, CEO and founder of Gaoithe Advisory, continues: “Transforming the Leadership mindset toward generative AI is crucial for accelerating innovation, reducing resistance to change, and fostering collaboration. We can compress time and cost, at the same time as expanding new capabilities and possibility spaces for our employees, businesses and public services.”

More information:

Svante Pahlman, CEO, DigitaBlue, svante.pahlman@digitablue.com

Patrick Halford, CEO, Gaoithe Advisory, pa trick.halford@gaoithe.org

DigitaBlue is a technology company providing tools and processes to make collaboration over top-notch business knowledge affordable and efficient. At DigitaBlue, we understand that every business is unique, with its team being the true industry experts. However, extracting, reframing, and translating that internal knowledge into actionable strategies can be daunting. Driven by our mission to help businesses thrive, we are dedicated to offering access to knowledge and expertise exactly when it’s needed.

Digitablue Selected for ALPHA Startup Programme at Web Summit 2024

We are thrilled to announce that we have been chosen to participate in the prestigious ALPHA Startup Programme at Web Summit 2024. This selection is a significant milestone for us, providing an unparalleled opportunity to showcase our innovative solutions on a global stage.

About Web Summit

Web Summit is one of the world’s largest and most influential tech conferences, bringing together over 70,000 attendees—including CEOs, founders, investors, and media—from around the globe. The event is a nexus for the tech industry’s brightest minds to share ideas, forge partnerships, and shape the future of technology.

What This Means for Digitablue

Our participation in the ALPHA programme underscores the innovation and impact of our solutions in enhancing human collaboration through AI and psychological research. This platform will enable us to:

Showcase Our Products: Present our methods for collaboration, including AI-Powered Business Tools and Consulting Journeys.

Engage with Industry Leaders: Gather valuable feedback and insights to further develop our offerings.

Expand Our Network: Explore partnerships and collaborations to accelerate our growth.

Join Us at Web Summit 2024

We invite all our clients, partners, and supporters to join us at Web Summit 2024. Stay tuned for more updates as we prepare for this exciting event.

September 2024

Launch: Quick Brainstormer

Digitablue is excited to introduce the Quick Brainstormer, our latest tool designed to make brainstorming sessions faster and more effective.

Key Features:

Real-Time Collaboration: Engage your team instantly for idea generation.

AI-Enhanced Creativity: Leverage artificial intelligence to spark new ideas and perspectives.

Easy to Use: Simple interface that requires no training—start brainstorming right away.

Built on psychological research, the Quick Brainstormer enhances team collaboration and boosts the quality of your collective ideas.

For more details, visit the Quick Brainstormer

September 2024

Launch: Ecosystem Pulse

DigitaBlue is pleased to announce the launch of Ecosystem Pulse, a powerful tool designed to assess and enhance the health of your innovation ecosystem.

Key Features:

Comprehensive Evaluation: Analyze critical components like stakeholder diversity, infrastructure, funding, regulatory environment, and cultural norms.

Benchmarking Study: Participate in a study comparing multiple innovation ecosystems, with insights shared in a webinar on November 22, 2024.

Actionable Insights: Receive detailed reports with recommendations to identify challenges and opportunities for growth.

Built on contemporary research and practical experience, Ecosystem Pulse helps organizations foster effective collaboration and drive mutual innovation.

For more information or to enroll, please contact thomas.westerholm@digitablue.com.

August 2024

Launch: Future Readiness Analysis

Digitablue is excited to announce the launch of our Future Readiness Analysis, a consulting Journey by Armand Govers. It is designed to help organizations assess and enhance their preparedness for future challenges, this innovative solution offers valuable insights into team dynamics and strategic capabilities.

Key Features:

Comprehensive Assessment: Evaluate critical factors affecting your organization’s adaptability.

Actionable Insights: Receive practical recommendations for improvement.

AI-Enhanced Collaboration: Leverage artificial intelligence to boost team performance and collaboration.

Grounded in psychological research, the Future Readiness Analysis utilizes AI to elevate teamwork and drive effective collaboration.

For more information, please visit the the Future Readiness Analysis

August 2024

Launch: Hybrid Consulting

Digitablue is pleased to introduce Hybrid Consulting, a new service that combines face-to-face consulting with our digital solutions to better meet your needs.

Key Features:

Direct Engagement: Benefit from in-person consultations that allow us to understand your challenges and goals more deeply.

Digital Integration: Leverage our online tools to enhance collaboration and streamline your processes.

Feedback-Driven Development: Your insights from face-to-face interactions help us refine our services and develop new solutions tailored to your needs.

By merging traditional consulting with digital innovation, Hybrid Consulting aims to provide personalized solutions while gathering valuable feedback to drive future developments.

For more information, please visit our website or contact our support team.

June 2024

Digitablue Launches Business Tools and Consulting Journeys

To better serve our clients, Digitablue now offers two distinct product lines: Business Tools and Consulting Journeys.

Business Tools: Traditional, easy-to-use solutions for consultants and organizations, priced at €2 per user per month.

Consulting Journeys: Comprehensive, digital consulting services featuring learning modules, individual and group work, and structured methods to achieve actionable results. Pricing varies by journey.

Both offerings are grounded in psychological research to enhance human collaboration and utilize AI to improve team performance.

March 2024

Very Positive Customer Feedback

Our test marketing project is concluded, and we are delighted with the overwhelmingly positive feedback we got from customers. The project has given us many insights to implement into our strategy.

It also confirmed the importance of developing more Consulting Journeys.

August 2023

First product live!

Our first product is live! take a look at smart-SWOT here 🙂

It is an improved version of the good old SWOT. We have added a TOWS step to better focus on the external world, we have added a step for actionable recommendations, and we have implemented AI.

June 2023

Business Finland funding

DigitaBlue was awarded Business Finlands Tempo funding for a test marketing project.

May 2023

Intoduction of K2B Technology

Introduction of K2B Technology as a umbrella brand for the technologies used in our Consulting Journeys.

January 2023

DigitaBlue continues with BeanBakers

DigitaBlue closes a deal to extend the MVP with a shop. The opening is scheduled for April 1st, 2023.

January 2023

January 2023

Journey viewer ready

MVP 2.0, part 1 is technically ready on time. We are now able to view and use consulting journeys online. The next step is to populate the technology with top-notch content, collect feedback and adjust.

December 2022

Business wins concept competition

In April 2022 DigitaBlue participated in a business concept competition for renewable and competent Finland 2021 – 2027. On 8.12.2022 Finnish Centre for Economic Development, Transport, and the Environment published the results with DigitaBlue’s project, Butler’s Backend as a winner.

The 50.000€ funding will be used to develop the backend of our system. The development of our MVP is still on time, and we expect to test our MVP with a limited audience during Q1 2023.

October 2022

Proof of technical concept 1.0

Things are really moving fast. In the development we are running on two weeks sprints, following the agile philsophy in a scrum framework.

Today the team have a sprint meeting with PoC 1.0. One step closer to MVP launch and to bringing our first products to the markets.

November 2022

AI Finland 2022

AI Finland 2022 brings the best and brightest minds in AI development to Turku on November 1st.

DigitaBlue participates in the event.

September

DigitaBlue closes deal with BeanBakers

DigitaBlue closes a deal to build a Minimum Viable Product.

November 2022

November 2022

Warm-up for marketing

We have entered a warm-up phase for marketing our services. In practice warm-up means that we are evaluating different channels on social media. What channels are relevant to an audience that could be interested in our products, how often shall we post, what are optimal times and days of the week for our targeted audience etc. In other words, we are trying to figure out the soul of different channels.

For time being we are evaluating LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google My Business. As social media management software we are testing Zoho Social

May 2022

Prototype done

What an exciting time behind us! We worked side by side with the designers to create our product’s first prototype. It is such a pleasure to see how our vision, the result of many-many months of work, is shaping itself in front of our eyes.

We are also happy to hear the feedback from the test users. Here are some quotes: “I enjoy the simplistic design”, “It’s very easy to find my way around. Perfect!”, “Fresh and modern feeling. Nice design language!”.

April 2022