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AI Ecosystem in Toronto a Model: Region’s AI Talent Attracting Support From Investors, Major Players

The thriving AI ecosystem in Toronto can serve as a model for other tech hubs. The system is underpinned by the region’s AI talent and expertise, by increasing support from venture capitalists for startups, and by leadership from the top. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau is into coding, welcomes entrepreneurs to Canada, has tuned the […]

Process Innovation Imperative: Differentiate your Business through Capability Driven Innovation by Jay van Zyl

This book proposes various conceptual models that can be used to facilitate process innovation. The result of this research is that formal processes, such as …

Built to Thrive: Using Innovation to Make Your Mark in a Connected World by Jay van Zyl

Built to Thrive is about unpacking the drivers that I have noticed in the landscape that do not yet have a place in our existing …

Meet SAM, the artificially intelligent politician

A Wellington, New Zealand-based technology group has unveiled a pilot digital platform: ‘SAM – the Virtual Politician’ at the launch of the  Wellington CIT.AI chapter, part of a global network of cities showcasing their artificial intelligence (AI) capability and talent. The group’s spokesperson Nick Gerritsen, said the group aimed to test whether the ways in […]

Human mash-ups and jobs

I’ve been “on the road” for the last few years shaping a story of innovation across industries. This journey started at a Lab Day in San …

The Innovation for Jobs Summit

 As we reflect on the Innovation for Jobs Summit that brought together some brilliant minds from around the world, it highlighted the fact that ecosystems form …

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 …

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 …

Heritage products and the link to innovation

Heritage products are everywhere and we can’t live without them. We become even more dependent when our taste buds or emotions are influenced. Take products …

Intellectual property protection of marketplace platforms

Intellectual property protection (through patents) is always under scrutiny, and especially software patents. I started looking into “marketplace patents” recently and found a very confused …