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

Compete by understanding the scale of scope

Seth Godin wrote an interesting entry called ‘Economies of small’ a few days ago. I have a view on the challenge of how people reason …

Do you know how your innovation initiatives will impact your business?

Can improvement initiatives be classified as innovation opportunities? Where does your six sigma projects fit into your overall change program? I found that most organizations …

Why do we find it difficult to develop new ideas to fruition?

New ideas are tough to implement in an environment where people believe that their current business model (with their resulting operating model) is economically sound. …

What is the value of the individual in a socially integrated world?

Humans play an interesting role in this technology enabled socially integrated world. Making sense of how to leverage this enablement is paramount in building the …

The revolutionaries that do not care about the growth plans and commercial strategies of the incumbents…

How do you compete against revolutionaries? Figure out what to disrupt first, then create the operating model; figure the business model out as you go. …

Do we really understand the mega-waves of change?

History is never objectively recorded. It’s interpreted, contextual, perceptive, and generally subjective. The future is never reasoned about objectively. We make extrapolations, projections, and form …

“Built to Thrive” the book…

Built to Thrive has been a long project. We are in the final phase of getting to publication. So, I will over the next 30 …

Where do new ideas really come from? One such view…

Networks are the infrastructure for the transmission of information and ideas. A meme is what packages the ideas and information that is being sent. Coined …

Dealing with consumers, customer, clients, patients, subscribers, guests…

I had another call this morning from a call center doing “outbound sales”. For the uninformed: you either use a list of names you bought …

You gotta move it, move it…

No matter how much we accept the constant nature of change or subconsciously adapt to it, we still structure our lives around faint delusions of …