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

Reshaping open innovation for service industries

Services companies require different approaches to open innovation due to the different inherit models of sharing information during and after the creation of new service …

Looking ahead into 2011 where do we see ourselves?

I have dedicated much of my thinking to what I perceive is happening in the landscape around me. Ideas of innovation seem to meet me …

System rationalization and legacy migration is an impossible mission in banking, where is the silver lining?

If you have a business process that has been developed over many years, the people using the process and the people defining the process all …

Pondering formal structure in business

The formal structure, in the business innovation sense and at its most basic level, pertains to the formal systems of hierarchy set in place within …

The tyranny of change and telling fortunes

I’ve had some push-back on my views about socially driven innovations and that in turn means a push back on open innovation. When “The Process …

Towards a more socially integrated innovation process

Innovation processes come in various forms and shapes, but there is an overriding view that open innovation based approaches have simplified the concept. In some …

Towards a metaphor for innovation

Being in a position where I’m fortunate enough to work with students who are interested in studying the subject of innovation; metaphors are used to …

Towards the new basics

Crowdsourcing is going through the paces when you get auditing firms 😉 discussing the merit of such a phenomena. Look at this entry by PwC. …

Open innovation orientation

Stefan Lindegaard is working on his new book on Open Innovation. He has his first chapter available for download to get a taste of his …

A collective re-design is imminent

The world is upbeat about the changes in economic activity. Consumers, customer, patients, guests and clients are all spending more than recently (well, a few …