Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

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 …

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 …