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

Thoughts on designing the “social innovation” system

The team at SystemicLogic has done some great work in testing social based systems in corporate settings. One of the areas that has been of particular …

A brief view on Idea and Innovation Management Software

Idea management and the associated innovation processes to realize ideas are concepts now well implemented across many different global organizations. It is quite a cluttered …

Emergent idea ecologies

The use of community oriented idea management systems has emerged as the primary means of managing useful ideas from customers, employees, competitors, and any other …

From workshop to action: making innovation work!

At SystemicLogic we’ve developed approaches to get innovation implemented through Reframing. Different situations require different solutions. Innovation should not be trapped in a division, process …

Presentation: Built to Thrive and the human innovation imperative

Sustainable and successful organisations explore new frontiers of competitiveness as a matter of doing business. Reframed thinking results in new business configurations being tested and …

Something to say for Return on Innovation (RoI)

We all have been looking at Apple as it transformed itself over the last few years. But how much of a turnaround has it been? …

What to do during tough times – Innovate, Collaborate OR Protect?

Three bits of news seconds from each other got my attention today. You figure out what this means in light of these three Innovation Strategies: …

Top-line growth for banks by using innovation

These are some of my ideas as take-aways from the Banking conference: Take Away 1: “Cost saving is not a strategy” as some banks might …

Open letter to Google Documents…

Dear Google documents team, I’ve been a great supporter of your on-line applications (been using it for about a year now). In actual fact I’ve …

Do we read to much, and think too little?

Things you need to start doing: I started focusing on reading snippets instead of entire books… I started to listen to interpretation instead of believing …