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

Human mash-ups under emergence

The term “mash-up” is now widely used in media and technology. Bringing together many different technologies that are connected to form a new application is …

Feedback on the Product Line Practice Conference 2008 in Limerick, Ireland

Limerick is a great city that is filled with history and Irish pride and is the host to the 2008 SPLC Conference. I came here …

An emergent view on Design Oriented Innovation

The “design oriented innovation” approach impacts innovative organizations in many ways. Design by definition refers to the process of creating new artefacts, processes, organizations and …

Reframing: Innovation Eco-System

Leaders in thriving companies know how to use reframing as a tool, to not only transform themselves over time, but guide the entire business through …

Can banks really re-invent banking?

Social banking models are set to create some disruption on the banking landscape. But, can traditional banks solve the “Innovators Dilemma” challenge that is so …

A model for understanding your innovation portfolio

Much has been written on the subject of innovation portfolios. I’ve found that there is a difference between models used in the service sector versus …

Innotown: the best experience you’ll ever have!

I attended two Innotown Innovation conferences in Alesund, Norway. This year they moved the conference to Stavanger. It is by far the best innovation conference …

Expressing your dominant idea; replacement for vision statement?

Innovation in business has got us to a point where a rethink of the vision statement is needed. I’ve written about this before by stating …

The influence of socio-spill on social networks

I just arrived in Liverpool, UK from Madrid, Spain – it is the ultimate in language and cultural difference. I’ m still surprised by the …

Ecogenetic thinking

Bringing together ecosystem thinking and genetic thinking you have Ecogenetic thinking. A kind of thinking that gets an organization to function like an ever changing …