What is Vistaly?
Vistaly is an interactive map for collaboratively iterating on strategy, discovery, and execution.
A lack of strategy can lead to feeling stuck and risky guesswork. But, when a good strategy is present, it clarifies the overall situation and becomes a tool to navigate challenges and coordinate actions.
Vistaly is not a tool that will write a business or product strategy for you. Instead, Vistaly will transform how you work to develop, deploy, and iterate on one more effectively.
Develop, Deploy, and Iterate
These characteristics highlight Vistaly's strengths. But, first, look at a few common patterns and concepts for developing and deploying a strategy.
Strategy Requires Work
Developing a strategy requires work regardless of tooling, frameworks, or templates. Anything claiming otherwise is lying. Vistaly does not make that claim.
Some of the work that goes into defining a good strategy? Studying specific challenges, collecting context, capturing inertia, considering trade-offs, identifying leverage, defining a guiding policy, and more.
Strategy has Inputs
Several tools and techniques pull together context to formulate a strategy (market/industry knowledge, constraints, analytics, workshopping, research, etc.) Together, these form qualitative and quantitative inputs.
(For teams) Strategy requires communication
Keeping a strategy locked away will do little to create alignment. Likewise, failing to document the components of one will do little to help determine its future effectiveness.
"Strategy Deployment" is the communication of the strategy.
"Operations" specifies how to carry it out.
Turning Strategy into action
The day-to-day operations will take over whether or not a strategy is defined and communicated.
- Research & Development
- Sales
- Marketing
- Customer Success
A clear strategy improves communication, prioritization, agility, outcomes, and more. As a result, day-to-day actions are more effective and aligned with customer and business outcomes.
At this point, Vistaly's strengths become tangible.
Vistaly provides a visual framework for connecting strategy to business & product operations and operations to execution.
End-to-end Visualization
The end-to-end visualization enables collaboration at all levels while proving the necessary context for strategically aligned decisions. Now you can see how work connects to strategic initiatives and how strategies play out over time.
Continuous Iteration
Vistaly allows for change at any level with the ability to visualize how it will impact other efforts. From high-level strategic adjustments like business pivots to tactical-level adjustments like responding to findings from usability testing.
Changes made, and impact visualized, everything aligned.
Centralized Context
Several tools and techniques are often used to collect and uncover information, each specializing in something specific. Vistaly allows information to be added and connected to its source without distorting the overall picture. Vistaly improves the discoverability of essential information while maintaining how everything fits together in the broader strategy.
Next Steps?
There are three different ways you can learn more or follow along.
