{"id":2,"date":"2010-07-30T17:06:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T17:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.futureinnovate.net\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:59:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:59:34","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">futur<\/span>e<\/em>Innovate.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">futur<\/span>e<\/em>Innovate.net is a not-for-profit Canadian public-private partnership whose mission focuses on enabling expertise-based complex decisions creating long-term value.<\/p>\n<p>A key theme of past and current activities is strengthening innovation systems in Canada and internationally, working collaboratively with governments, corporations, and institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The objects of the corporation are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To create, aggregate, disseminate and deploy<br \/>\nleading edge concepts, methodologies, practices and platforms<br \/>\nenabling innovation governance, decisions, performance and value<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">futur<\/span>eInnovate&#8217;s activities are organized around:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thought leadership programs and networks<\/li>\n<li>Innovative IT-enabled <a href=\"http:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main?page_id=56\">platforms<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Leading edge-services and support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">futur<\/span>e<\/em>Innovate team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">futur<\/span>e<\/em>Innovate <a href=\"http:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main?page_id=29\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">team<\/a> is highly qualified and experienced in a variety of roles as executives, consultants, members of Boards of Directors, inventors, authors, and volunteers in a variety of innovation-related initiatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corporate affiliates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">futur<\/span>e<\/em>Innovate is proudly supported by the following corporate affiliates:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/benchmark_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-551  alignleft\" style=\"border: 3px solid white; vertical-align: top;\" title=\"BAIsmallcolourlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/benchmark_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/benchmark_logo.png 428w, https:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/benchmark_logo-300x50.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BenchmarkAction Inc. (BAI) was founded in 2004 as a joint venture to web-enable the licensed ProGrid\u00ae methodology via software developed by and licensed from MatrixLinks.\u00a0\u00a0 Ron McCullough and Rob McLean are co-Presidents of BAI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KlasTek Ltd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Formed in 1994, KlasTek Ltd. is Ron McCullough\u2019s personal consulting company.\u00a0 For over 15 years he has provided strategic consulting services to public and private organizations across Canada focused on creating and extracting value from science, technology and innovation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/matrix_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-552  alignleft\" style=\"border: 3px solid white; vertical-align: top;\" title=\"matrixlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/matrix_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"33\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/matrix_logo.png 756w, https:\/\/futureinnovate.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/matrix_logo-300x68.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSince 1995, MatrixLinks International Inc. has been the corporate vehicle for Rob McLean&#8217;s work on strategy and systemic change, intangibles and intellectual capital, performance and value measurement, TVC\u00ae development on behalf of the CICA, and related software and web-application development.\u00a0 Rob McLean is the principal MatrixLinks shareholder and serves as President.<\/p>\n<p>ProGrid<\/p>\n<p>Since 1996, ProGrid \u00a0and its network of consultants and partner organizations have helped a wide variety of clients including corporations, government agencies, universities, hospitals, and non-profit foundations. These clients must make complex decisions based on expert knowledge, working within limited time frames and budgets, and guided by organizational goals and values. They must make difficult choices, such as which technologies and products to invest in, which proposals to fund, and how to make sound evaluations based on intangible factors.\u00a0 The ProGrid companies have developed proprietary methodologies and embedded these in tool sets and software platforms which are unique and are licensed for use only to a small set of highly trained consultants and select organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>futureInnovate.net is a not-for-profit Canadian public-private partnership whose mission focuses on enabling expertise-based complex decisions creating long-term value. A key theme of past and current activities is strengthening innovation systems in Canada and internationally, working collaboratively with governments, corporations, and institutions. 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