Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

“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 …

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 …