# stratgen.org > AI-optimized mirror of stratgen.org containing 50 pages totalling 23,432 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://stratgen.org. Last updated: 2026-07-22T02:30:08.358Z. Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG). ## Homepage - [- StratGen](/content/site-root.html): STAY TUNED FOR THE STRATGEN.ORG WEBSITE UPGRADE What is your Strategic Big Idea? NESG Success Nature, Economic, Societal and Governance (NESG) Success. Sounds complicated. And yet having less and less capability to succeed in each of those four success quadrants seems to define failure. Defining failure compared to a better future is a big idea (918 words) ## Articles & Blog Posts - [Page not found – StratGen](/content/si-2-foresight/index.html) (30 words) - [Strategic Thinking, Strategic Management, and Co-Creation - StratGen](/content/stsm/index.html): Strategic Thinking, Strategic Management, and Co-Creation In this Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) era, generating both pragmatic and original confrontations of strategy, innovation, and risk can start with metaphors and analogy. Issues of Climate Protection and lack thereof are literally unprecedented. So, StratGen has an art element with the the SI 2 Dynamism Flywheel. (1,191 words, Jun 22, 2025) - [Legacy Management Consulting - StratGen](/content/lmc/index.html): Legacy Management Consulting The Legacy Management Consulting Space features a list of multibillion-dollar and multimillion-dollar corporations; often having global influence connected to decades of ethical issues. Many of these firms went from marketing strategy and strategic management practices that made the nation and globe more unstable… to selling sustainability expertise. Who is greenwashing in one (248 words, Jun 22, 2025) - [The Strategy Innovators - StratGen](/content/the-strategy-innovators/index.html): The Strategy Innovators Who does StratGen serve? The Strategy Innovators. StratGen supports the development of Strategy Innovators and their power aims of ethical value. Strategy Innovators interface with issues of strategy, Innovation, risk, and Social Synergy using leadership skills suitable for these times. Today’s risk / solution leadership compatibility requirements are as demanding as 21st Century challenges. (175 words, Oct 29, 2024) - [Metaphor and Analogy - StratGen](/content/metaphor-and-analogy/index.html): Metaphor and Analogy One way to take on the challenges this era is identifying known and possibly completely original metaphors and analogies to create a target strategy in relation to the huge task arenas ahead of us. Analogies and mimicry is a pretty simple way to start a strategic development phase. In many ways taking (758 words, Oct 11, 2024) - [Sustainable America Engine - StratGen](/content/sae/index.html): Sustainable America Engine This flow of news — good, bad, and ugly; everyone’s ideas about what to do about how these many issues shape our national challenge agenda; the resulting solutions… or no action… the ability to track all of it… it isn’t for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to monitor and respond to. Humans are still (1,258 words, Jul 9, 2024) - [Municipal Strategic Management - StratGen](/content/municipal-strategic-management/index.html): Municipal Strategic Management WalletHub https://www.bcg.com/publications/2024/innovation-systems-need-a-reboot It would be strange if each US city, town, and county didn’t have a good, common description and system for helping leaders and stakeholders understand and interface with strategy, strategic management, and innovation with a corresponding mindset of Sustainable Value Creation. Rather than just how local governments work; entrepreneurs as (136 words, Jul 3, 2024) - [SI 2 Power Sphere + SCP - StratGen](/content/powersphere_scp/index.html): SI 2 Power Sphere + Strategy Concept Pyramid What people seem to want is the capability to influence the future in a manner producing more desirable outcomes than those currently. Identifying and executing on the change from and change to value variance between the current state and a more desirable future state is why leaders (369 words, Jun 29, 2024) - [Strategy Statements - StratGen](/content/strategy-statements/index.html): Strategy Statements Once the first few paragraphs describing a new or renewing initiative — which can include a ‘startup’ business, entire new nonprofit, or government unit — a mind map of sub components can be laid out with plan phases. Conversely, the focusing strategy statement with purpose, mission, vision, values, and people served (The Way) (818 words, Jun 17, 2024) - [The Way - StratGen](/content/the-way/index.html): The Way The Way: Strategic Basis of Sustainable Value Creation (e.g. ’The Way’) is the heart and soul of SI 2 Dynamism. Rather than merely worrying about how profitable a market space is, The Way is about the purpose, mission, vision, ethical value, and supporting strategic communication behind the change from and to direction many people (694 words, Jun 1, 2024) - [SI 2 Dynamism - StratGen](/content/si2dynamism/index.html): SI 2 Dynamism From the start, SI 2 Dynamism isn’t just about new technology factors like AI (Artificial Dynamism). It’s about Strategy Innovators working in Human Ecosystems; where we live — Our Municipalities — and supported in the SI 2 Lab; and as to doing new with new value creation outcomes through SI 2 Delta (402 words, Dec 11, 2023) - [Ideas and Events - StratGen](/content/ideas-and-events/index.html): StratGen Ideas and Events Stay tuned for the SI 2 Ideas and Events page (44 words, Oct 29, 2023) - [Open Strategic Management - StratGen](/content/osm/index.html): Open Strategic Management Open Strategic Management (OSM) is partly about use of Podio. Otherwise, OSM is core to the SI 2 practice area of linking Strategic Thinking, OSM, and Co-Creation (STSM) is support of the SI 2 Lab experience. (70 words, Oct 21, 2023) - [Orca Strategy - StratGen](/content/orcastrategy/index.html): Stay tuned for iStrategy (30 words, Oct 21, 2023) - [Unity Future - StratGen](/content/unityfuture/index.html): Unity Future Unity Future is an initiative of the TBA national impact 501c3 nonprofit I am developing. Along with programing like Earth Lab 2 and Unity Future, a major aspect of this nonprofit and Unity Future is expanding on the StratGen theme of municipal performance and freeing up idea exchange between US municipalities. Unity Future (217 words, Sep 15, 2023) - [Human Ecosystems - StratGen](/content/human-ecosystems/index.html): Human Ecosystems A local government unit — like a urban planning department or police department — is part of that city or county ‘strategic management platform’. There’s operations, and then there’s all the strategic challenges and public demands that put a load on local government operations. The White House is the national strategic management platform. (528 words, Aug 30, 2023) - [EL 2 - StratGen](/content/earth-lab-2/index.html): Earth Lab 2 Earth Lab 2 (EL 2) is an initiative tied to the TBD national impact 501c3 nonprofit I am developing. - Grant Millin, Strategy Innovator and StratGen CEO Rather than going straight into the strategy statement and program management plan for EL 2 — which I am ready to admit I alone am (841 words, Aug 27, 2023) - [Strategic Innovation 1.0 vs 2.0 - StratGen](/content/strategic-innovation-1-0-vs-2-0/index.html): Strategic Innovation 1.0 vs 2.0 In 1997 MIT Sloan Management Review published an article titled Strategic Innovation that explains a lot of the analog-digital transformation leading up to that time. I happen to think that the time of Thomas Edison and electrification, WW II, and then the time of Steve Jobs is a period we (1,125 words, Aug 26, 2023) - [Where We Live - StratGen](/content/where-we-live/index.html): “Our city's downtown, as we know it, is not coming back.” - San Francisco Mayor London Breed, 2023 Municipal Strategic Management Mayor Breed said that, but she has priorities and strategies. Like the City of Asheville resilience study, the Office of Resilience and Capital Planning program called ONE SF is of interest if establishing resilience and (1,310 words, Mar 22, 2023) - [SIM Leadership - StratGen](/content/services/strategic-innovation-mind-leadership/index.html): Strategic Innovation Mind (SIM) Leadership “We believe the 9/11 attacks revealed four kinds of failures: in imagination, policy, capabilities, and management.” - 9/11 Commission Report July 22, 2004 That quote from one of America’s more significant lessons learned reports is a little scary. But what matters today is to manage risk and think ahead. More than just ruminating about (272 words, Sep 14, 2021) - [Delta Systems - StratGen](/content/services/deltasystems/index.html): Delta System Driven Initiatives While some may find working online to interface with municipal challenges, solutions, and outcomes; remote and hybrid work is here to stay. And with those examples of the Future of Work it should be natural to look at municipal applications for platform innovation and innovation ecosystems. First, connecting leaders from municipalities (589 words, Feb 18, 2019) - [Solution Design - StratGen](/content/services/solution-design/index.html): Solution Design SI 2 Maneuvering SI 2 Foresight Delta System Driven Initiatives Stay tuned for Solution Design. Red Teams / Lessons Learned Reporting Roadmaps and other Strategic Communication Media (49 words, Feb 18, 2019) - [Our Smart City and Towns Network is ready. Will leaders approve? Will you? - StratGen](/content/smart-city-towns-network-ready-will-leaders-approve-will.html): A version of this article appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times. The community ‘innovation engine’ that I developed, Open Strategic Innovation for Communities (OSIC), can assist in organizing further positive change in Asheville and Buncombe county. When it comes to solutions to our greatest challenges, there is less ‘low hanging fruit’. So what’s next? OSIC (747 words, May 14, 2016) - [Asheville sustainability leader answers White House call for a “City Web” - StratGen](/content/avl-answers-white-house-call-for-a-city-web/index.html): FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ASHEVILLE, NC - Sustain NC is a professional development initiative of InnovoGraph LLC nurturing sustainability innovation. The central initiating Sustain NC service project is completion of the North Carolina Clean Power Plan. Part of making that happen is deploying a Smart Grid, Distributed Energy, and Efficiency Program (Smart Grid DEEP). There is (699 words, Apr 19, 2016) - [North Carolina’s Public Interactive Carbon Mitigation Decision Wall in Raleigh - StratGen](/content/nc-public-carbon-mitigation-decision-wall-raleigh/index.html): Have you been to the NC Nature Research Center? Know anyone who has? Whether you have or have not, North Carolina has one of the most sophisticated public interactive anthropogenic climate strategy tools in the world: the Koshland Earth Lab Airborne Carbon (CO2) Mitigation Decision Wall. This powerful anthropogenic climate education and policy development tool was licensed by the Koshland (640 words, Mar 14, 2016) - [Initiatives - StratGen](/content/initiatives/index.html): Initiatives Stay tuned for StratGen These projects connect to the national impact 501c3 nonprofit I am developing. They all connect to the Unity Future ‘Center of Gravity’ message. Let’s discuss your project(s); and please join the SI 2 Lab. Grant Millin One of the initiatives, or synergy groups, in the SI 2 Lab covers High (240 words, Oct 31, 2015) - [One vision for the City of Asheville 68-76 Haywood Street property and 88,000 citizens - StratGen](/content/one-vision-for-68-76-haywood-and-88000-citizens/index.html): Ideally there would be a large unified award-winning sustainability strategy project on both the 68-76 Haywood Street and Catholic Diocese property on the 100 block. In strategy 'designing out' what isn't desirable is one starting point in relation to a high stakes matter like this. I understand the desire to turn the corner on the (1,106 words, Sep 27, 2015) - [SI 2 Dynamic Services - StratGen](/content/services/index.html): StratGen SI 2 Dynamic Services Leaders and consultants with no local ties can't come up with all the great ideas. the StratGen Strategic Innovation 2.0 (SI 2) Platform is about the tools and space in which great ideas can happen while we cope and coordinate on the crucial issues of this time… where we live… (1,920 words, Jun 21, 2015) ## Listings & Categories - [Innovation and Opportunity Ecosystem - StratGen](/content/category/innovation-and-opportunity-ecosystem/index.html) (662 words) - [Asheville - StratGen](/content/tag/asheville/index.html) (386 words) - [Climate Change Innovation - StratGen](/content/category/climate-change-innovation/index.html) (526 words) - [Grant Millin for Asheville city council - StratGen](/content/tag/grant-millin-for-asheville-city-council/index.html) (185 words) - [GOP - StratGen](/content/tag/gop/index.html) (63 words) - [Poverty Innovation - StratGen](/content/category/poverty-innovation/index.html) (651 words) - [Open Strategic Innovation for Communities - StratGen](/content/category/open-strategic-innovation-for-communities/index.html) (470 words) - [decision tools - StratGen](/content/tag/decision-tools/index.html) (71 words) - [Earth Lab - StratGen](/content/tag/earth-lab/index.html) (71 words) - [climate change - StratGen](/content/tag/climate-change/index.html) (134 words) - [affordable housing - StratGen](/content/tag/affordable-housing/index.html) (131 words) - [Climate Change Innovation - StratGen](/content/tag/climate-change-innovation/index.html) (62 words) - [City Web - StratGen](/content/tag/city-web/index.html) (67 words) - [Asheville-Buncombe Energy Innovation Task Force - StratGen](/content/tag/asheville-buncombe-energy-innovation-task-force/index.html) (68 words) - [City of Asheville - StratGen](/content/tag/city-of-asheville/index.html) (70 words) - [anthropogenic climate - StratGen](/content/tag/anthropogenic-climate/index.html) (71 words) - [anthropocene - StratGen](/content/tag/anthropocene/index.html) (68 words) - [68-76 Haywood Street - StratGen](/content/tag/68-76-haywood-street/index.html) (70 words) - [Asheville - StratGen](/content/category/asheville/index.html) (656 words) - [Asheville Smart City Network - StratGen](/content/tag/asheville-smart-city-network/index.html) (68 words) ## About Pages - [About - StratGen](/content/about/index.html): About StratGen StratGen is a for-profit, for-purpose, Management Consulting for Public Good organization. Municipal Success and how issues like overall economic development strategy connect to the evolving topic of sustainability includes sub issues like new product development (NPD). StratGen is interested in what products and services make up a local economy within the context of (1,458 words, Jun 21, 2015) ## Resources - [Full Page Index](/index.html): Browse all cached pages with rich metadata - [About This Cache](/content/about.html): Methodology, technical details, and usage guidelines - [XML Sitemap](/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable sitemap for crawler discovery - [Robots.txt](/robots.txt): Crawler directives