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 Municipal Success criteria; and being inventive in the face of the emerging future is part of Sustainable Value Creation. However, StratGen is not solely focused on NPD or issues like software development and AI (Artificial Intelligence) use.
This particular Landing Helicopter Assault ship was the one Strategy Innovator and StratGen CEO Grant Millin served on proudly. Technically, the ship is an example of Strategic Innovation. It is a ‘game-change’ design in naval architecture. As to ethics, and as to ‘real world’ resilience in a crisis, these kinds of amphibious operations ships can be used for peaceful emergency interventions.
We all have different perspectives on how we describe issues and as to what the concept of America should and should not include. Being a Strategy Innovator at minimum means seeing things as more than half-empty.
Management Consulting educator Alan Weiss talked about improving the condition of clients as the central criteria for the consulting engagement. Strategy educator Richard Rumelt covered the truth behind a diagnosis being the central issue.
The fundamental idea of Donald Trump and Elon Musk being the right ’trouble shooters’ and ‘efficiency experts’ to get the United States of America straightened out defines fraud; versus them being independent ‘finders of fact’ and being fraud experts… like CFPB, FBI, and DOJ staff used to be. That’s how scam artists work. Create urgency. Create an atmosphere of expertise and insight. Guide the victim or victims through the scam process. Exit without consequences… to themselves at least.
StratGen just allows American leaders in every part of the Union to simply look at strategy, innovation, and risk issues and form insight about our common challenges; combine Intellectual Capital in terms of developing solutions; and intercept on outcomes. If the immense Intellectual Capital of America is sabotaged; the Union falls. But that’s a choice for individuals, teams, and organizations across America to choose.
“[…] We can succeed only by concert. It is not “can any of us imagine better?” but, “can we all do better?” The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. […]
President Abraham Lincoln to Congress, 1862
As I learn about client needs and co-create an engagement I ask, “What will we create; and how will we deal with destruction?” Something about doing strategy, innovation, and risk with a new mission means transformation is at hand. Like Joseph Schumpeter’s articulation of creative destruction, making our municipalities more resilient and sustainable may include trade-offs where something moves into the past for the sake of a bette future.
In many ways I am happy to be known as the CLO (Chief Learning Officer) of StratGen as well as StratGen CEO. The Learning and Development (LD) aspect of the management consulting space is often worthy and StratGen especially wants young people in the United States and beyond to feel skilled at working with strategy, innovation, and risk for purposes of Sustainable Value Creation in a transforming world.
Grant Millin, Strategy Innovator and StratGen CEO
StratGen is Management Consulting for Public Good. Sustainable Value Creation in a transforming world.
StratGen NAICS Codes: 54161 Management Consulting and 541611 Strategic Management Consulting
StratGen developed the SI 2 Lab where leaders in most any domain with a mission connected to resilience and sustainability can cope, coordinate, and maneuver as we establish resilience and then sustainability… together. SI 2 Lab is the first Municipality to Municipalities (M2M) Human Ecosystem designed for Municipal Success Discovery and Action.
As to specific applied StratGen company strategy, municipal comprehensive planning has become an example of EESG (Economic, Environmental, Societal, and Governance) Comprehensive Strategy in many US locations; and across the free world. However, there may not be the universal recognition that we mainly govern with a new sustainability lens. So, while Municipal Success Discovery and Action is much like the continuous improvement processes of the past; we do have more to work with as to ensuring Municipal Success into the future versus where we were at the turn of the century.
We also grow strategic challenges easily as we become more skilled in generating and sharing data.
StratGen Dynamic Services, including the SI 2 Lab, exist to support municipal leaders in a range of domains — healthcare, education; all levels of government; or business — as we more effectively and efficiently design, target and achieve Municipal Success with shared Strategic Innovation 2.0 capabilities.
Value Proposition
Strategy Innovators are game changers.
The StratGen Strategic Innovation 2.0 Platform (SI 2) energizes leaders and the people they serve with tools and space to cope, coordinate, and maneuver as we establish resilience and then sustainability; as Strategy Innovators… together.
StratGen Purpose
Support development of Strategy Innovators capable of Sustainable Value Creation for a transforming world with SI 2 Dynamism.
StratGen Mission
Support Strategy Innovators with the insight, community space, and tools package of SI 2 Dynamism.
Vision
Sustainable Value Creation for a transforming world.
StratGen is a for-profit and for-purpose consultancy; hence the .org in StratGen.org. A national impact 501c3 nonprofit is in development that parallels the StratGen mission to help leaders and the people they serve in shaping the future.
“If you want to be a great leader, be mindful and project the future.” – Steve Jobs
”Doing something spectacular that works requires a Strategic Innovation Mind.” – Grant Millin
Engaging with StratGen
More people translating what ‘sharing ideas’ means to a little more advanced stage with a 1-2 strategy statement is something may be something many initiative founders and other types of Strategy Innovators recognize as something they wish they had more support in developing earlier in life.
So, the StratGen Strategy Statement consulting workshop service connects to other SI 2 Dynamic Services. There can be a prescribed Step 1, 2, 3, 4 engagement plan with StratGen. But I give folks a menu of options and in a one-hour consultation we can work out more of an initial engagement phase from the SI 2 menu of options.
About StratGen’s Strategy Innovator and CEO
Grant Millin is a Strategy Innovator and StratGen CEO. StratGen is Solution Design Consulting and Strategic Innovation Services.
Grant has masters’ degrees in project management and entrepreneurship, and completed several MBA courses. Grant has developed Solution Design, a Front End of Innovation practice as one component of the StratGen Strategic Innovation practice His research areas include developing existing technology suitable for team knowledge management, project management, innovation, and strategy (i.e. Solution Design and Strategic Innovation Platforms).
He has a BA Interdisciplinary Studies, Independent Degree in Sustainability and Security Studies. Grant’s approach to climate change comes from deep learning in strategy, innovation, and communications issues behind Anthropogenic Climate and the opposing force of coordinated climate protection.
Grant has a Charrette System Certificate from the National Charrette Institute and has personally participated in dozens of workshops and trainings. Grant has several FEMA Continuity of Operations certificates and developed a municipal agency Continuity of Operations plan. Continuity of Operations relates to resiliency from human and natural negative events, i.e. what to do in the face of Anthropogenic Climate.
Grant was the North Carolina project manager for the historic Hydrogen Road Tour which involved the DOE, EPA, and DOT as well as many of the world’s auto manufacturers. He produced and was on the panel of the Smart Grid and Hydrogen Economies symposium at Duke University. Grant initiated the Swannanoa Superfund Community Advisory Group. Grant is a GroWNC consortium member. GroWNC was the Western North Carolina program for the Federal Sustainable Communities Initiative that included HUD and the EPA.
Grant also has an extensive multimedia background including publishing 100+ commentaries and letters to the editor, motion picture production experience, and has appeared in the news as a subject in many cases. Earth Lab 2 and Center of Progress are just two programs of several within a national impact nonprofit Grant is developing.
Grant’s Education
Master of Entrepreneurship
Master of Entrepreneurship
Master of Project Management
Multiple MBA courses including:
Leadership and Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Information Technology, and Managing R&D Activities
Contact Grant to schedule a StratGen event and your Strategic Innovation roadmap: grant@stratgen.org.
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