Institutional Presentation

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What is Innove?

Innove is an organization that offers social innovation services through knowledge, connections and experiences in order to promote changes of paradigm.

Our purpose is to contribute with the sustainability of our species on the planet.

Innove has learned from the transformation and innovation experiences of Medellin, Antioquia and Colombia. Through our services we offer these lessons and

our social capital to organizations looking to develop different and sustainable actions with a positive impact.

Why Innove?The Sustainable Development Goals –SDG- are adiagnosis of the most urgent problems of the world. The unsatisfactory results of the Millennial Development Goals –MDG- proves that all of us need to change the way we think and make things if we want to achieve real transformations.

Thus, the creation of organizations with new ethics

reflected in their work principles and goals has become necessary in the 21st Century.

Innove bets on being the change that we want for the world, because we see that such is a possible world.

The StrategyOur work strategy is based in three methodological lines:

1. Knowledge: we offer concepts and approaches to co-create social innovation and positive impact designs and prototypes with our clients.

2.Connections: we set up the network of allies

which are needed for the designs to be carried out.

3. Experiences: we organize learning spaces for practical experimentation and on-the -

ground transformation.

Map of Services

1. Line: KnowledgeExperience in research and systematization of social innovation and entrepreneurship cases as well as inclusive business in the world has allowed us to build our own methodology which captures information and transforms it into functional and replicable knowledge.

We thoroughly revise the concepts and approaches from which problems are being looked at, as well as bring specific cases and innovations that can help us co-create designs and prototypes of positive impact with our clients.In this line we offer three services: 1.1 Sustainable Development Goals Route1.2 Knowledge Management1.3 Custom-made Consultancy

1.1 SDG RouteWe facilitate awareness and learning spaces around the Sustainable Development Goals –SDG- and the Global

Development Agenda, focusing on the efforts and mistakes made to achieve them.

Service features:• Talks and workshops for awakening

awareness based on participation methodologies

• Permanent assistance during the process of design and prototype of actions and programs around the Sustainable Development Goals

1.2 Knowledge Management

Services for systematizing disperse information and converting it into strategic narratives which aim to improve learning and decision making processes.

Service features:• Definition and specification of objectives.• Use of knowledge methodologies such as: actors

or ecosystem mapping, case studies, systematization of practices or models, event or processes' memories, roadmap, etc.

• Constant validation with the client• Brief, friendly and infographic deliveries which

make reading and learning easier

Offers the opportunity to solicit custom service adjusting for specific needs, or development of a

new one.

Service features: Professional services in the following subjects• Social Innovation • Social Entrepreneurship• Inclusive Business• Sustainable Development• Public-Private Alliances• Sustainable Development Goals• Corporate Social and Territorial Responsibility • Art of Hosting

1.3 Custom-madeConsultancy

2. Line: ConnectionsOur experience has given us a strong network of allies on a national and international scale which allows us to provide connections of mutual

benefit based on collaboration and co-creation.

Since knowledge isn´t enough to transform realities, we transcend by connecting people and organizations willing to learn from each other and join efforts to grow the positive impact of their initiatives.

In this line we offer three services: 2.1 Partner Hunting2.2 Alliances 3.3 City Management

2.1 Partner HuntingIs about mapping the ecosystem of a sector or subject in Medellin and Colombia, looking to determine the most convenient network to connect with.

Service features:

• Constellation analysis in terms of risks, obstacles and opportunities

• Specific systematization of information under the principle of utility

• Interviews and focus groups with mapped actors to pre-evaluate interest and disposition for alliances or pacts

• Structuring of a meetings agenda with mapped potential allies.

2.2 AlliancesThis is the service that follows Partner Hunting, in it we keep accompanying organizations during the process of building significant relations of mutual benefit with the relevant actors mapped.

Service features:

• Definition and consensus of common goals

• Bringing together actors coming from different

sectors

• Art of Hosting methodologies for generating alliances according to the actors involved

• Permanent assistance until maturity of the relation and independent operation of the alliance

2.3 City ManagementFlexible service for helping out the landing of your organization or representing those without

a structure of their own in Medellin and Colombia.

Service features:• Organization and development of meetings

and work agendas according to your goals.• Participation in specific activities (with or

without your presence) such as events and fairs

• Flexible, reliable and assertive representation• Delivery of executive and strategic reports and

compromised monitoring.• Possibility of hiring us for the exact amount of

time needed (e.g. hours, days)

3. Line: ExperiencesBased on Art of Hosting, co-creation and learning by doing methodologies, we organize transforming experiences as well as testing spaces to try out the designs and prototypes developed in the previous lines in the vibrant natural and social innovation ecosystem of Medellin, Antioquia and Colombia.

In this line we offer three services: 3.1 Internships3.2 Laboratories3.3 Significant Conversations

3.1 InternshipsOrganizing of intensive learning agendas through an internship methodology that allows for groups of up to 15 people to get to know in-theory and on-

the-ground good practices and social and entrepreneurship innovation models in Medellin, Antioquia and Colombia.

Service features:

• Design of a custom-made agenda which includes real life learning experiences and meetings with peers and relevant organizations

• Knowledge management of the internship itself for scaling learning

• Optional: organizing logistics such as hotel and

transportation through us

3.2 LaboratoriesCoordination of laboratories such as Living

Labs, Focus Groups and on-the-ground Pilots in order to test models and products with base of the pyramid or specific populations e.g. ethnics, women.

Service features:

• Selection of a space and methodology

according to the specific needs of each case• Access to vulnerable communities in urban

and rural areas in Medellin and Colombia• Logistics for the operation of laboratories• Knowledge Management and delivery of

strategic final reports.

3.3 Significant Conversations

Design and host spaces for dialogue among actors with different interests in order to enable an assertive communication oriented towards results.

Service features:

• Creation of trust, exposition of diverse points of view, generation of consensus and collective construction

• Each space (e.g. workshops, panels, congresses or closed meetings) is uniquely designed according the aimed goals

• Art of Hosting methodologies such as: circle, world cafe, open space, fishbowl, etc.

Recent ClientsGoal: Co-create with organizations close to ProSUR a Roadmap to articulate efforts regarding Corporate Social Responsibility looking to create a socially responsible territory in the South of the Aburra Valley.Services offered: 1.2 Knowledge Management, 2.2 Alliances and 3.3 Significant Conversations.

Goal: Mapping the Colombian social innovation ecosystem to determine the best possible allies for the creation of a Public-Private Social innovation Fund. Services offered: 1.2 Knowledge Management and 2.1 Partner Hunting

Goal: Systemizing the implementation of an inclusive business methodology for five organizations of Nicaragua. Ejes trabajados 1: 1.2 Knowledge Management.

Founding

Team

Laura Villa

Magister Artium in Political Science and specialist inLiterary Hermeneutics. Studied in Germany, butcame back to Colombia to take an active part in itstransformation. Worked in the public sector for 7years, in Medellin´s City Hall, Antioquia´sGovernment and in the National Government, insubjects like international relations, public-privatealliances and social innovation. Worked in the privatesector for 4 years in radio, television andcoordinating city, art and photography exhibitionsfor museums. Is a published author and has been aspeaker in national and international events. Fluentspeaking and writing skills in English, German and

Spanish. Is an environmentalist and a vegetarian.Loves water, the ocean and surfing.

Jenny Melo

Business Manager and Master in Social Sciences. Hasgreat experience as a researcher and independient

consultant in development, social innovation andresponsibility and inclusive business for internationalorganizations such as BID, GIZ, Ashoka and CAF, whichimplied the management of great amounts ofinformation and missions to different countries of Latin

America. Was editor-in-chief of Next Billion in Spanish.Grad-school professor in subjects such as the relationenterprise-state, the Agenda Post-2015 and theSustainable Development Goals. Has studies andexperience in Art of Hosting methodologies. Lovessharing in collective creation processes to solve socialproblems and spending time in the countryside withher dogs.

Innove Society was born in 2015 after the realization that is was necessary to create anorganization in accordance with the necessities of the 21st century and its change ofparadigm that neither the private or public sector has been able to implement.

Contact us:

www.innove.com.coTwitter: @innove_co

Facebook: InnoveColombia

Executive DirectorCo founder

Knowledge DirectorCo founder