Spotify, how a startup from Sweden changed the music industry
This blog is the first of a series of articles of famous companies and the search for their working business model. In 2006, Spotify was
Articles from GroundControl
Staff Picks
6 Major companies that failed to innovate in time
The reason why major companies fail to innovate isn’t caused by a lack of willingness to do so. Rather, the problem is that they’re too
Measuring Innovation Portfolio
The ‘What’ the ‘Where’ and the ‘When’ of Innovation Accounting
GroundControl is heavily built around the principles of Innovation Accounting to measure innovation success. If you’ve used our platform before or read about it, that
Staff Picks
The Top 5 Innovation Books For 2020
It is easy to get overwhelmed with all the material that is written on innovation in 2020. You want to learn the most relevant information
Innovation Ecosystem
The 5 conditions for professionalizing innovation
One of the key components of an ecosystem for innovation is setting up a separate system to allow for the search for new business models
Measuring Innovation Portfolio
The best way to start measuring innovation
Here at GroundControl, we’ve seen that some managers don’t (initially) like to add startups to their portfolios when trying our product. Instead we see them
Measuring Innovation Portfolio
How to measure that innovations are moving forward
We struggle to iterate quickly – I’d like to identify metrics to demonstrate that innovations are moving forward? This challenge from the first Group Call at Innov8ers
Measuring Innovation Portfolio
The 3 KPIs you should measure to start with innovation accounting
How to start with innovation accounting? We start with measuring the following three innovation KPIs from corporate startups.
Innovation Ecosystem
The Innovation Management matrix
Setting up a dedicated management system for startup innovation is something that can be only done if there is a clear way of deciding what is what. Ultimately this is one of the necessary steps in professionalising innovation within your company.
Innovation Framework
The difference between the NEXT Canvas and the Business Model Canvas
The NEXT Canvas and the BMC are not mutually exclusive, but work well together as tools to create, test and renew ideas.
Innovation Ecosystem
Kickstart corporate innovation by building a Minimum Viable Ecosystem
In our book The Corporate Startup, we describe what an innovation ecosystem is and how you can build an innovation ecosystem within your company. An
Innovation Ecosystem
Innovate or die! What does innovation mean in your company?
Apart from the well known adagium it is the most common answer I get when talking to companies about their most urgent reasons to innovate.
