Articles from GroundControl

APRIL 1, 2021

Since 2008 Esther and I have helped around 250 startups through their journey from a great business idea to a validated business model. The post How long does it take to reach product/market fit? We’ve helped Accelerators like Rockstart and Startup Bootcamp, but also bootstrapped startups and VC funds. We started to see patterns.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. About David Armano David has over 14 years of experience in the communications industry, having spent the majority of his time in digital marketing and experience design.

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BrainZooming

MAY 19, 2017

Following up the post about why so many mid-career marketers have missed out on becoming outstanding content strategists , Emma Alvarez Gibson, from our West Coast (or Best Coast) Brainzooming HQ , is here discussing the steps to become a content strategist and avoid marketing career extinction. Or seven. .

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InnovationManagement

MARCH 19, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be an international economic crisis, with ramifications for all industries and markets, similar to the crisis of 2008. A cross-border economic crisis affects companies large and small, challenging an organization's management and its employees.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 12, 2020

Disruptive innovation usually starts from the low-end of the of market , which means that these innovators are uniquely positioned for tough times. For example, during the 2008-09 financial crisis, most companies cut their technology budgets by 20-30%. That obviously meant quite a bit of trouble for most technology companies.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 7, 2017

I have two established businesses, one started in 2000 and one in 2008. I thought I’d outline the six here in this post as the sum of the parts that contributes to the whole. They are distinct in what they provide as services. It covers many of the adjacency’s on innovation. Its areas of focus: [link].

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 21, 2020

The rule of the boomers has been been a short ride, from the 1990s till today, and mostly a sugar high, fueled by a rapidly rising stock market and cheap money, but leaving little behind in terms of infrastructure. But what happens when at least two important legs of the real estate market weaken or collapse?

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 2, 2013

3 Our emotional responses to the marketing, purchase, and use of products combine over time to create emotional experiences, which further combine to create emotional relationships. Demir, 2008), diagram: (van Gorp & Adams, 2012). Sanders, 1992)(Sternberg, 1988)(Demir, 2008)(McLean, 1990), diagram: (van Gorp & Adams, 2012).

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Innov8rs

MARCH 6, 2023

This dichotomy delivered by the financial pressure is unfortunately pushing many leaders and top managers towards suboptimal decisions that tend to focus more on survival and not enough on investing in the future. For example, Delta Air Lines, one of the leading airlines, managed to get back to their leading position even after bankruptcy.

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Qmarkets

AUGUST 23, 2023

It’s a series of much smaller innovations that make sure that a product consistently evolves over time and becomes more competitive in the market. Each release contains new updates to user experience, security, and compatibility that have ensured Windows remains a market leader almost 40 years since its launch. It’s fast to market.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 17, 2013

This urgency is all but unfelt by the company that acquired the app, Procter and Gamble (P&G), as it would appear for the express purposes of marketing the Charmin brand of toilet paper. (It’s Finally, remember that “Forms suck,” as brilliantly quipped by Luke Wroblewski in his book Web Form Design (Rosenfeld Media, 2008).

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 13, 2020

That’s certainly how it felt to me in November, 2008, when I was leading a media company in Kyiv. By that time, the financial crisis was going full throttle, although things had been relatively calm in our market. Look For Dead Sea Markets. In other cases, however, it makes both assets and market share surprisingly affordable.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

The brief In 2008, we were tasked with resurrecting a tired, old, and ineffective site. To bring these teams and disparate elements together requires a launch manager or ‘boundary spanner’ Rizal Sebastian wrote about boundary spanners in Design Issues in 2005 1. People make or break any project.

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Innovation 360 Group

MARCH 31, 2020

Innovation Management is not something that just happens. Bring new ventures to market faster. Market Innovation (e.g. Results map to the eight core ISO principles: Realization of value, Future-focused leaders, Strategic direction, Culture, Exploiting insights, Managing uncertainty, Adaptability and Systems approach.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. For designers in internal teams, you may have access to managers, product owners and other executives who could benefit from alignment diagrams at a strategic level. Find a champion in management. Footnotes. [1]

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).

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Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

Our habitual sources of entertainment, access to healthcare, ways of working, supply chain management… all put aside. That means the opportunity for innovative change is both ripe and necessary. Now is not the time for business to sit on the innovation sidelines.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

However, very few managers are able to explain their company’s business model ad-hoc, and even fewer can define what a business model actually is in general. 2008), or, more simply, the value proposition (Teece 2010). Disruptive innovations are innovations that radically change existing structures and markets (Pisano, 2015).

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Norbert Bol

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The impact of #BigTech, #FinTech and #PropTech innovations are increasingly visible in the real estate market. Sustainability developments and innovation are becoming more important in the real estate markets as in all products and services markets. Sustainability and innovation. Location perspective: we have learned our lesson!

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

billion for Apple in 2017 and over $110 billion since 2008. What appeared to be yet another mp3 player in the market had a solid business model behind it in the form of itunes. An innovative business model has the potential to radically disrupt a market and give your business the competitive edge. generated $8.5

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eZassi

MAY 27, 2022

How do the major companies’ research and development teams build and manage a portfolio of innovative products while ensuring long-term market success and consistent brand loyalty? Following the competition and battling over market share is not a viable strategy. Utilize Open Innovation for R&D.

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Moves the Needle

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

From managing remote workers, to internal communications dominated by video platforms, to the devastation of small business buyers and consumer budgets, the ‘new normal’ would have been barely recognizable at the beginning of 2020. The very structure, processes, and the way we manage people inside society’s institutions are changing.”.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Stackoverflow arrived on the scene in 2008 and solved the hostile environment brilliantly by applying gamification methods to encourage constructive participation on their platform. When we worked on StyleLike, an influencer marketing platform for fashion brands, we started the job by interviewing potential users. Source: airbnb.com.

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Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

And its iPad was introduced during the 2008 downturn. But of course not all of our organizations are as flush with cash as Apple, which gives the company the luxury to invest in creating the future while managing through the uncertainties of the present.

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Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In our combined 15+ years experience working with clients in our respective industries ( digital marketing and technical communication ), we have been amazed with how many folks want to rush to design before they have content goals in place. The Journal of Consumer Marketing , 26(4), 286-298. 2008, December 16). Strategy first.

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Innovation 360 Group

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Openness is where market innovation truly takes place. Successful organizations use external resources in an open co-creation process to achieve a larger accessible market through building value nets and growing the total market. Penker (2008-2011). Be Open – share ideas with competitors.

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Innovation in Practice

JULY 20, 2015

In its recent fiscal year ending March 31, 2015, FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation reported a record profit, in spite of the loss of its core business several years ago, brought on by a rapid increase in the digitalization of photography as well as the world financial crisis in 2008.

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mjvinnovation

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It is no coincidence that the financial market, banks specifically, are among the most innovative. Market conditions for financial service providers are changing more and more rapidly. The 2008 financial crisis was decisive. Numerous experts point to the 2008 global financial crisis as an epicenter. Open Banking is born.

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New Markets Advisors

JANUARY 27, 2020

Between 2008 and 2018, average rents across the US rose by 34%, roughly four and a half times the 7.4% a holy grail for developers and property managers. Successful innovation requires strategic decision-making, necessitating an equally clear choice on which parts of the market NOT to pursue. growth in median income.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

If you're an experienced professional, it can be tough to find a job in today's market. She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. The market dynamics that pushed her out of a job were happening across the whole marketplace for her profession.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

I'd bet, given recent events in the markets, like many, you'd like to get to the bottom of what the heck is really going on here. In 2008-9, the prevailing narrative switched between "Zomg what just happened?! If we don't, my guess: today's market turmoil is probably just the pregame for the main event.

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Innov8rs

APRIL 2, 2025

In a recent Innov8rs Learning Lab session, Sarah Thurber, Managing Partner at FourSight and co-author of Good Team Bad Team , explored the team dynamics and cultural forces that shape innovation efforts. At many levels of leadership, especially middle and senior management, avoiding risk becomes the default.

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KindlingApp

AUGUST 19, 2015

A shared experience for professionals across industries and around the globe is the increase of pressure to be more innovative, or to produce innovations and get them to market faster. In other words, any given project will be managed according to the same set rules and states as any other, like budget, internal approval, and market research.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

Such findings have implications for your company’s talent-management strategy and its bottom line. According to Deloitte: “Purpose-driven companies witness higher market share gains and grow three times faster on average than their competitors, all while achieving higher workforce and customer satisfaction.”

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mjvinnovation

AUGUST 16, 2019

Fintechs are startups where technology is applied in financial services or used to help companies manage the financial aspects of their business, including new software and apps, processes and business models. What are fintechs and what is their influence on the market? Why are fintechs gaining more and more market?

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Qmarkets

JULY 8, 2017

In the time that has passed since then, this concept has become infinitely easier to implement thanks to the development of Innovation Management technology, however some companies are yet to wake up to its potential. . A History of Open Innovation. The Innovation Gamble. Lindegaard, 2010). Lego – Innovo Beneficus.

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Qmarkets

APRIL 24, 2017

In the time that has passed since then, this concept has become infinitely easier to implement thanks to the development of Innovation Management technology, however some companies are yet to wake up to its potential. . A History of Open Innovation. The Innovation Gamble. Lindegaard, 2010). Lego – Innovo Beneficus.

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