All Posts Tagged With: "Jac Spies"
COMPANIES DON’T INNOVATE, PEOPLE DO – By Jac Spies
Inventive behavior is usually stifled within legacy organizations resisting change, because of the emotional safe and warm feeling in the cloak of “that’s how we have been doing it the last hundred years”.
20Feb2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
4th SA Innovation Summit: Presentations
See some presentations from this year’s SA Innovation Summit. The summit was themed: Innovation Legends – Idea to Market and took place over 3 days at the IDC in Sandton.
12Sep2011 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
THE CHALLENGING PARADIGM CALLED MANAGEMENT
article written by Jac Spies “The Internet, the fall of the Berlin wall and the lifting of the Bamboo curtain propelled management into a world of real time communication and co-existence that changed management thinking for ever” Ancient man survived as an individual by his brawn power and little brain power, which over millennia evolved [...]
3Nov2010 | Saine | 2 comments | Continued
WHAT’S GOING WRONG WITH INNOVATION IN SOUTH AFRICA? by Jac Spies
Enjoying the prosperity of the given moment is great stuff. Knowing that current prosperity will not last very long in today’s fast changing world. We cannot foresee unexpected tsunamis, or notice the more subtle changing expectations of clients and stakeholders. We also know that leaders and companies who do not innovate into the future will [...]
18Oct2010 | Saine | 25 comments | Continued
WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT FROM INNOVATION?
by Rishab Rao and Jac Spies Innovation Practitioners at BMGI South Africa Abstract What do our customers really want? Who are the customers we should concern ourselves with? How do we get the right voice of the customer? Do our customers really know what they want? Have these questions ever sparked debate within your organizations? [...]
4Aug2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Innovation and the 5 “W” Questions – What, Why, When, Where, and Who by Jac Spies (BMGI South Africa)
ABSTRACT The writer reflects on the five fundamental contextualising questions of what? why? when? where?, and who? regarding the flavoured word “Innovation”; and also addresses typical milestones in “walking the walk” from the desire to the delivery. THE FIVE FUNDAMENTAL “W” QUESTIONS In solving a felony case the Investigator first need to be clear on [...]
12Jul2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
