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Grant Millin, innovation strategi

and owner of InnovoGraph LLC

I have worked in advertising

media and served as theHydroge

Road TourNorth Carolina projec

manager. I have Master of

Entrepreneurship and Master o

Project Management degrees.

Immersion in your strategy and innovation option

is more than marketing research or standard socia

media activity. Immersion is more meaningfu

collaboration with key partners, capturing custome

unmet needs, and going deeper with innovationDivergence includes breaking down assumptions

Convergence adds more of what works to the

desired future state while leaving out what doesnt.

InnovoGraph support means answering what the

next business models will look like without relying

only on the generation of more Microsoft Office

documents, emails, phone calls and meetings.

Organizations of scaleeven communitiesgrapple with amix of complexity, effective strategy search, missinginnovation supports, and talent potential loses. Wiping outgreater wisdom and key activities due to poor engagementand absence of a solid, amplifying strategic innovation

capability is too easy.

Consultants should be able to support results in two areas: strategy and

innovation. InnovoGraph makes strategic innovation work.

InnovoGraph's methods add up to the profound difference between

mostly conversation about strategy and innovation... or actual

strategic innovation leading to workable ideas, optimized talent

energy, growth or renewal. InnovoGraph is about supportingstrategists in getting organized to do strategy and innovation with a

visual management system and social business platform.

InnovoGraph clients are left with the engagement solution and an

interactive, true living document with solution breakdown. The

strategic, innovation and/or business plansas well as component

ideas with business casesare available in this new Connected

Strategistenvironment.

InnovoGraph supports these strategistsleaders, stakeholders,managers, and staffas we develop value offers capturing greater

options. The InnovoGraph approach enhances existing client methods

by establishing a frontend design thinking place for more powerful

strategy and innovation outcomes.


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82% of organizations that expand their strategy and innovation capabilities experience success. These

top innovation leaders also understand how to collaborate internally and externally. In these cases

innovation is an organization-wide strategy where anything that works and adds value is the target

not just new product development. 93% of organizations that have growth agendas see their

innovation capabilities as the value capture mechanism, versus strategy focus on merger or

acquisition exits (PwC, 2013). Strategic innovation helps everyone get back to means versus ends.

The evidence is clear: Innovation across the management system associated with great strategy that

forges new legacies and renews existing ones are central concepts for success in the 21st

century.

While expanding strategy and innovation capabilities may sound most relevant to private industry,

there are multiple ways in which value and competition principles are now affecting nonprofits and

even government programs.

InnovoGraph OSIStrategic innovation includes strategy, innovation, design thinking, and the rest of the management

system. The current research shows similar traits in these strategic innovation components.

InnovoGraph's Open Strategic Innovation (OSI) combines these critical elements making the value

capture of strategic innovation a systematic, workable process and a meaningful, open conversation.

What is your platform for strategic innovation? OSI makes strategic innovation work with templates

pre-loaded with key strategy and business model innovation questions, as well as current innovation

and design frameworks. OSI is based on intense research on supportive strategy and innovation

methods. OSI is the low adoption cost/high value solution allowing for a dynamic mix of creativity,

concrete analysis, and project management.

Cost control and keeping the core of an organization strong are important to strategy and innovation.

But idea management, unified communications and collaboration, and new approaches to strategy

and innovation still deserve a home in our organizations and communities, especially in austere times.

Creating strategy in todays environment of complexity, ever-

changing priorities, and conflicting agendas is a daunting task.

Yet when senior executives invest the time and effort to develop

a more thorough, thoughtful approach to strategy, they not only

increase the odds of building a winning (organization) but also

often enjoy a positive spin-off: the gifts of simplicity and focus, as

well as the conviction to get things done.

Mastering the Building Blocks of Strategy, McKinsey & Company, 2013


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InnovoGraph OSI Benefits

Software programmers have several market advantages leading to high valuation, multibillion-dollar

acquisitions and inflated stock prices. Whatever the analysis, that final value offer that goes out the

door (or onto the Internet) uses a radically innovative set of general purpose technologies to create,

deliver and capture that value. PCs, handheld devices and free or very cheap computer programming

languages create an industry with economic impacts asymmetrical to the labor and capital costs.

In terms of concepts like open innovation there's every reason to secure trade secrets, but discovery-

driven strategists do not make modern growth methods a secret to themselves and their teams.

InnovoGraph methods keep these strategy development, renewal and growth elements visible. With

managed decision and information rights, your business ecosystem can be included.

The visual management system in OSI on MindJet is biased towards flexibility and the capacity

to see hidden opportunity in the white space. Seeing between the lines, or white space

innovation, is a classic innovation technique.

The social business platform of OSI on Podio is designed for collaboration out of the box.

InnovoGraph has developed apps supporting the strategic innovation process.

FORM: Map templates with ideaprompts includingCONTENT: A social business platformcollaborate with your team online.

Strategy Center The Key Apps

Business Model Innovation Dashboard: By Program or Date Ra

Innovation & Opportunity Ecosystems Strategic Activities

Innovation Challenge Matrix Projects

Design & Innovation Management Ideas

Keys to Civic Engagement + CSR Other Supporting Apps

OSIon MindJet OSIonPodio


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A functional combined approach to strategy, innovation and design thinking that has a low

adoption cost is rare. OSI is a flexible, tangible approach to the classic dilemma of developing projects

that align with strategy and generally improving real world operational experience. OSI uses off-the-

shelf tools that make the most sense for a more accessible strategic innovation environment.


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The frontend of strategy and innovation development often includes brainstorming workshops,

design charrettes, or overpriced idea management web applications. Once data is captured in these

cases reports are produced with matrices framed by idea category and the players get something

covering what happened. Lessons learned from the effort are lost and rework follows when initiatives

form later using similar project elements and similar feedback gets generated.

In contrast OSI starts with a low adoption cost system for strategic innovation. OSI supports thestrategists with improved project and program development factors. More significant repeat success

follows. OSI fills a gap in other project development and idea management solutions.

Large successful organizations invest heavily in strategy and innovation solutions. At some point they

were small startups. What happens in the middle space between startup and growthor challenge

identification and renewaltoday?

Answering how to grow or renew deserves a supporting strategic innovation environment. Whether a

startup programor a medium legacy organization, business unit, or departmentachievements in

sustainability and growth include many moving parts. A new big picture from those partsincluding

adding, subtracting or combiningis part business model innovation co-created with InnovoGraph.

Client co-created solutions through InnovoGraph can scale up for those with growth responsibilities,

including small and medium organization strategists. InnovoGraph supported strategists are confident

about the future in their tailored system for creating, delivering and capturing value despite a

complex and competitive world.

The 2012 PwC reportThe Agile Enterpriseis useful is seeing business model innovation as also a time

to ask about how well we really organize at the management system level. Harvard Business Review

authors Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (The Balanced Scorecard) describe a management

system driven by strategy informed by real world operations feedback loops. Balanced scorecard

principles are embedded in OSI.

OSI is an extension of such research while transforming that knowledge with current, professional yet

utilitarian technology. Original organization approaches and many business concepts the client prefers

can be added to OSI. OSI is absolutely about doing more with the great knowledge weve all

developed in our individual specializations over time.

OSI is a strategic innovation platform for qualitative understanding and communication, with

quantitative functions. If QuickBooks, Excel or graphs from other quantitative tools are all the forms

your management system, that means you are only forming insights and measuring success

numerically. If strategy for you is not a design and social activity, and innovation principles do not feel

especially tangible, you may be using a definition of strategy worthy of reexamination.

OSI is getting organized, then doing strategy, innovation, and designing required solutions with a:

visual management system

social business platform
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The strategy search and innovation process deserves a roadmap to success. And now innovation

roadmapping is an interactive operating system with OSI. Weve all heard the term living document.

OSI is strategic planning linked to a project management capability. OSI asks the questions and

collects the detail. OSI is not an overpriced attempt at IT automation. The strategist, their teamand

when applicabletheir business ecosystems, are engaged with the visual design aspect of MindJet

and the social business power of Podio.

Heres a fewideas for gaining advantage with your OSI environment and InnovoGraph engagement:

Social (collaborative) strategy isn't about releasing trade secrets to the public. It's about

making our organization truth an open process.

Risk Management: Looking at your current, near term and long-range strategic activities and

projects in a visual manner while connected to a discrete social business platform supports the

strategic truth of an organization and improves the opportunities of relevant action.

Creative business thinking isn't a waste of time when the time, scope, cost and innovation

factors of a strategic activity are visible in OSI.

Strategy and innovation are not just the tools of successful major corporations. If you are not

using strategic, innovation and design thinking you are most likely not growing.

When talent moves, their knowledge stays. How? Make OSI use mandatory.

Technical Flexibility: InnovoGraph can export MindJet maps to Microsoft Project and other

Microsoft Office formats. Basic HTML web page export in another option with MindJet. Podio

exports as Excel for Project import.

These tools and techniques are rapidly adaptable to the oganization

and personal preferences, though simple rules should be set up to

respond to strategic shifts and management system changes. With

InnovoGraphs OSI method being a Connected Strategist is more

accessable than overpriced IT solutions designed for manufacturing,

the intagibles of workshops, and other consulting approaches.

When supported, OSI expands team engagement, innovation

amplitude, and strategy coherence while slashing rework and

energizing workflow. InnovoGraph services design-in valueperformance to client engagements. Its important clients have

more than documents at the end of an InnovoGraph engagement.

OSI is an engine for quality strategy and systemic innovation.


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InnovoGraph and OSI support strategists in answering questions such as:

"How can we generate the ideas and capabilities that will attract revenues supporting our

market sector leadership, even dominance?

How can we best position to do that again two years from now?"

The OSI visual design thinking and social business environment is creative and social while at the same

time highly searchable, analytical, and allowing for strategy prototyping. OSI supports an inexpensive

model before committing resources to a new course of action.

Your value proposition that worked five years ago may need revision. If past growth came from

answering "Who are our customers and what unmet need are we solving?" ...How can you grow

further using the past premisein today's market and funding environments without a deeper new

context? InnovoGraph OSI offers the strategic innovation capability edge to bust assumptions,

develop and manage the greatest options that may otherwise stay hidden.

InnovoGraph uses two key tools: Podio and MindJet. Podio is a low adoption cost, feature-flexible

social business solution that overcomes other IT barriers by designing-in unified team communication

and collaboration value. MindJet allows for a visual management system linking to Podio elements.

Each strategy and innovation design aspect can be detailed in one plane of reference in MindJet. Both

Podio and MindJet offer solid quantification functions.

There are universal elements found in strategy, innovation and design. OSI takes the great strategy

and innovation research available today and transforms text into a tool that makes strategic

innovation work.


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The Future of Work

The Future of Work engages talent and stakeholders with unifying social business tools, processes,

and policies. Standard social media and social business are different tools. For the most part, only

corporations like GE, Coca Cola, Proctor & Gamble, Electrolux, American Xpress, Cisco, Dell, Teva

Canada and others can access the power of social business until now.

According to the MIT Sloan Management Review/Deloitte University Press 2013 report Social

Business: Shifting out of First Gear only seventeen percent of those feel competent using these

powerful platforms in these incoherent efforts. Why?

They start from scratch and skip the research. Their open innovation programs are designed to leave

out actual two-way and multi-stakeholder collaboration. Centralized leadership thinking combined

with habits that lead to picking expensive solutions over practical, low adoption cost social business

alternatives are the norm. InnovoGraph OSI shares a capability similar to what these larger

organizations hope to achieve using a tool offering a free account option:Podio.

OSI performs in a variety of case uses and tailored configurations:

Commercial, public sector and nonprofit strategic, innovation, and idea management.

Individualized online incubators and special interest group collaborative innovation

workspaces: Economic Development Strategy with a civic engagement benefit, startups,

customer engagement for technical support, product development and marketing, VC and

corporate venturing startup coordination.

Social strategy. Savvy citizens need more than design charrettes where colored dots are meant

to mean something and big issues and valuable citizen ideas are processed in a matter ofminutes: Civic engagement for regional planning, Corporate Social Responsibility with an

integrated external engagement capability.

Multiple social business configurations: New Product Development, customer relationship

management, real estate, sales and marketing management, project portfolios, and overall

project management Podio has extensive options with highly social features embedded.

Question:What would you do with a year supported by an opportunitycatalyst where intellectual work, insights and new initiatives could flow75%more effectively than the past twelve months?

What will your stakeholders think?
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Podio social business environment is highly customizable and requires no computer programming

code knowledge. Creating workspaces, apps and related web forms is convenient. All thats required

to invite new workspace members is their email address.


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Lets connect!

For descriptive videos visit InnovoGraph.com and the InnovoGraph YouTube Channel. The

InnovoGraphServicessection andblogoffers additional insights.

Its agreed that face-to-face live meetings and events are still valuable despite changes society has

experience as the Information Age unfolds. At the same time the personal experience of seeing

everyone on a team live can be supported with OSI. Virtual learning, online project management and

collaboration in the cloud works and there are many examples of success. IT workers are by no

means the only people experiencing the Future of Work.

OSI supported live events become more informed with relationships developed in Podio and standard

social media. Responsible strategy and innovation connects to empathy directed at producing

solutions to real unmet human needs. OSI merely enhances the response to those unmet needs.

As owner of InnovoGraph Im here to support your Connected Strategist experience on a personal

level. Connected, collaborative strategies are competitive strategies. Lets break open current-state

assumptions, design a tailored strategy and innovation environment, and co-create a bigger, deeper

growth future.

Feel free to contact me to experience OSI demonstrated as a concept community development

solutionwith a $1 billion+ valuation; and as a dynamic, discrete workspace alternative to the GroWNC

Strategy Toolkit,part of a $1.6 million regional program.

Letsset up a project based on your specifics. I look forward to speaking with you.

InnovoGraph LLC

PO Box 9214

Asheville, NC 28815

Cell: 828.423.2266 / Office: 828.298.5706

Email:[email protected]

URL:www.innovograph.com

AboutMe Page:http://about.me/grantmillin

(Organizations) that are too complacent about their existing

innovation capabilities, or not prepared to adopt new innovation

models, risk being overtaken by more innovative competitors.

PwC, 2013
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