<span class="vcard">Jay van Zyl</span>
Jay van Zyl

Seperating service lines from product lines

I’ve been doing a lot of work in the field of “understanding business commonalities”. What are the key characteristics in a business process, or application …

Architecture and the act of visualisation

I’ve been working with Sketchup for a few months now and find that the product is set to transform our ability to visualize designs. It …

Business Model Emergence and the Open Source World

We are running the SystemicLogic Open Source Open Day event today. I’m reminder once again that the focus of Open Source Software is fragmented and …

Understanding the innovation ecosystem

I guess that understanding an innovation ecosystem can be equated to understanding a business landscape. The challenge is however that “landscaping” can only be done …

Virtuality and the need for a NOMAD culture

It’s official I’ve moved to “address unknown”, well its been going for a while, but here’s the synopsis. Google (and Google Corporate) has become the …

Jeremy’s Age of Access

Jeremy Rifkin wrote The Age of Access in 2000. He could be seen as a radical in some circles, but the clarity of his reasoning …

The tomorrow of today is never the same as the today of tomorrow

Our views change as we travel through time. These views are based on our understanding of the world; the way we perceive the current environment, …

Reframing and radicals

Reasoning about the world in a way that fits your own personal context is a basic and very human phenomenon. This means that we reason …

Making sense of Built to Thrive

I spend a fair amount of my time trying to understand how people see and use innovation as a concept to drive new forms of …

Welcome to the Built to Thrive blog…

Welcome to the Built to Thrive project blog. This blog is about the key characteristics I’ve found that show the beginning of a third megawave …