The document outlines the vision, mission, goals and organizational structure of Ikigai Innovation. The vision is to support grassroots innovation and translate it into sustainable enterprises that benefit humanity. The mission is focused on developing countries, initially India. Goals for 2011 include finding 100 ideas that result in 10 projects and 1 flagship success. The organizational structure includes roles like CEO, CTO and categories for ideas like community, opportunity, energy and environment.

2. Vision : Ikigai Innovation Ikigai (Something important one lives for and the reason for being.) Mission : To support the spurting of grass-root innovation and help translate it into self-sustaining enterprise adding benefit to humanity. Geographical Scope: Developing Countries (initial India-focus, unless prospective project is geo-specific and workable)

3. Goals: 2011 Find 100 Ideas that translate into 10 workable projects that result in 1 flagship success. 1Q Setup Organization and network (develop PowerMatrix) Develop tools (e.g. website) Start idea gathering 2Q Ramp-up the idea gathering Start evaluating ideas for potential to become projects 2H TBA (Normal Operations: Idea>Project>Testing>Industrialization) Prepare year 2 Plan and strategic plan based on year one progress

4. Project Categorization Here are the categories in which we'll be considering ideas: Community : How can we help connect people, build communities and protect unique cultures? Opportunity : How can we help people better provide for themselves and their families? Energy : How can we help move the world toward safe, clean, inexpensive energy? Environment : How can we help promote a cleaner and more sustainable global ecosystem? Health : How can we help individuals lead longer, healthier lives? Education : How can we help more people get more access to better education? Shelter : How can we help ensure that everyone has a safe place to live? Everything else : Sometimes the best ideas don't fit into any category at all.

5. Organisational Setup Spurting Innovation CEO CTO COO Evangelist Finance Talent Creative and Comms Research Orgs IPR Tools PoC Experts Evaluation Team Evaluation Team O&M IS Projects Political / Financial connect Domain Advisory Board Industrial Connect

6. Key Personals COO – Spurting Innovation Gopal is a technoprenuer. He has been associated with various industrial, educational, and service industry projects having foreign collaboration. Currently, he is associated with knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) industry for intellectual property (IP). http://in.linkedin.com/in/gopalshrivastava Evangelist – Spurting Innovation Sanjay Rathee : By visualizing the impossible, we begin to see it as possible. There are dominant ideas in every field. Lets purposefully challenge these dominant ideas in order to conceive new possibilities. We have to dig for treasure in our own backyard. http://in.linkedin.com/in/sanjayrathee CTO – Spurting Innovation Michael is an expert in making scientific research results applicable to today’s environments, to connect research to business and vice versa. He is an ICT Advisor and Strategic ICT Consultant, his company is a member of a number of multi-national technology working groups. http:// de.linkedin.com/in/michaelfehse CEO – Spurting Innovation. Alleš is enthusiastic individual dedicated to innovation; he currently also serves as assistant CEO at a top European lighting manufacturer and volunteers as project management support at Mars Desert Research Station. http:// sk.linkedin.com/in/alesnohel

7. Corporate Governance Nucleus Board Structure and Selection: Nucleus should comprise of minimum of 3 and maximum of 7 members based on the scope of activities, needs of the organization as well as the availability of volunteer members. The board should be elected based on criteria determined after year-one evaluation of the organizational needs. Tenure: Director tenure is not limited but members need to be reelected each year. Note : We need to evaluate who would vote for the board, who would nominate and what the criteria for nomination would be. We should also discuss whether we could have 2 external board members (to bring us to ideal 5 members) but this is prerequisite by year one success.

8. Duties of Nucleus: To Oversee Management and Evaluate Strategy. The fundamental responsibility of the directors is to exercise their business judgment to act in what they reasonably believe to be the best interests of SI and its stakeholders. The Board also evaluates SI‘s overall strategy and monitors performance against its operating plan and against the performance of its peers. The Nucleus must meet on regular basis (minimum weekly frequency) to discuss operational and strategic matters. The Nucleus must drive the success of the organization and live the vision of SI: ikigai innovation and respect the law and culture of all of SI’s stakeholders. The Nucleus must conduct themselves according to the Ethical Code of Conduct and present SI in the best possible manner to ensure synergistic relationships with each other, clients and partners. Whenever needed the Nucleus should seek the advice of expert volunteers and should quote these resources. The Nucleus needs to maintain relevant ongoing education to provide SI with competitive edge.

9. Ethical Code of Conduct: 1.Respect the law 2.Seek to understand and respect the culture of SI and its stakeholders. 3.Do not seek personal benefit at the expense of SI or its stakeholders. 4.Ensure financial integrity, responsibility and transparency. 5.Respect others and do not discriminate. 6.Respect confidentiality of SI and its stakeholders. 7.Protect SI interests and assets.

10. Needed Talent like Finance, Social Media/Communication !!! (Job placement on Linkedin) SI Website !!! SI mail addresses Evaluation Team (Praveen) Flagship Project Volunteer Engagement Sponsors/Funds Scouting Partners Scouting Tool for sponsors/volunteers (Karma-Exchange) Tool for ideas Tool for collaborative project management Tool to track progress Tool to access history database Transparent Process descriptions

11. Ideas for Web: Cross connectivity with Linkedin, twitter, Facebook Links to Entrepreneurship and innovation tools Links to Entrepreneurship and innovation education and resources Links to news, blogs, twitter and rss feeds Wiki (to collaborate on a project) Forums (to discuss projects) AdSense ??? Ability to donate RSS/Twitter feed

12. Volunteers Sunil Prasad creative-visual Sumir Bahl Manager at Honeywell contacted sbahl0101@gmail.com Bob Zenhausern Education (incl. Supporting organisation) Gopinath Chandrasekar Technical consultant Jenney Mak , PMP Creative-tools? Jens Outzen Renewables Consulting Uday Pasricha Consultancy Wolfgang Spendel CTO, consultancy sachin gupta Viral campaigns Allen Knoll Transportation expert Paula Russell Enterpreneur, web design ? Kates Allas Journalist-creative director Ignacio Acuña Filippi RD manager Dhananjay Jog Coordinator Nagarajan Vadivel Consultancy Howard Davis Inventor-competition Praveen Gupta Consultant-Visisting Lecturer (ET Head) John Gostomski Accountant, BDM, Owner (finance?) Oleg Zabolotnyi Scientist Amit Dharia , Ph.D. Tech/Patent specialist Chris Wilson Exec. Director shadab zafar mshadab.zafar@gmail.com artist/modeler D Blackmon Producer/filmmaker