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A system for providing a graphical representation of a plurality of items in a collaborative innovation environment, the system comprising: a memory to store a plurality of items, each item having an association with at least one other item; an interface operatively connected to the memory, the interface operative to communicate with a device of a user; and a hardware processor operatively connected to the memory and the interface, the hardware processor operative to: receive, from the device of the user, a request to initiate a collaborative innovation process with a seed item wherein the seed item includes an idea, a question, an opinion or a statement for which a result is sought, and to innovate one or more idea items directly or indirectly in response to the seed item to determine the result for the seed item based on the one or more idea items in the collaborative innovation process, wherein the seed item and the one or more idea items comprise the plurality of items; provide by the hardware processor to the device of the user, a list of a plurality of seed items in a graphical user interface; provide, to the device of the user in the graphical user interface, a graphical representation of the plurality of items including a seed item selected by the user from the plurality of seed items and a plurality of idea items innovated in response to the selected seed item, wherein each item of the plurality of items is represented by a shape and the association of each item with the at least one other item is represented by a line between each shape representing each item and each shape representing the at least one other item, wherein the line between each shape representing each item and each shape representing the at least one other item identifies whether the each item is an idea item that was innovated from the at least one other item, receive, from the device of the user, a request to associate a first metric of the plurality of items with a size of each shape representing each respective item, wherein the size of each shape is based on a value of the first metric of each respective item, receive, from the device of the user, a request to associate a second metric with a color of each shape representing each respective item, wherein the color of each shape is based on a second value of the second metric of each respective item, transform, by the hardware processor, the graphical representation of the plurality of items such that the size of each shape representing each respective item is based on the first value of the first metric of each respective item and the color of each shape representing each item is based on the second value of the second metric of each respective item, transform, by the hardware processor, the plurality of items into a textual outline representation of the plurality of items, provide, to the device of the user, the transformed graphical representation and the textual outline representation of the plurality of items, wherein the graphical representation comprising the metrics of the idea items and the textual outline representation comprising the textual descriptive information of the plurality of idea items are simultaneously displayed on the device of the user in a graphical representation display area and an textual outline display area respectively, wherein the graphical representation display area and the textual outline display area are each a responsive display area to each other; and responsively, reflect actions performed in either the graphical representation display area or the textual outline display area in the responsive display area of the other, by: creating an item innovated from one of the plurality of items in the responsive display area of the other in instances when one of the plurality of items is selected and when a selection is received from a user selection made in either the graphical representation display area or the textual outline display area; and receiving, by the hardware processor from the device of the user, a request to search through a set of idea items of the plurality of idea items, wherein the set of items to be searched is determined based on a user selection that indicates whether to search all of the plurality of idea items or to search only a subset of the plurality of idea items that have received a specified rating; moving a user-selected one item of the plurality of items having an association with the at least one other item in the graphical representation to a user-selected destination by: disassociating the user-selected one item of the plurality of items from an item it was innovated from; associating the selected one item of the plurality of items with another item based on user input; providing by the hardware processor to the device of the user a preview for display of the graphical representation including the moved user-selected one item of the plurality of items to the destination item; and allowing the user to cancel or confirm the move of the user-selected one item of the plurality of items; wherein in response to a click of a move descendants button in a user interface by the user, including the descendants of the user-selected one item of the plurality of items in the moving of the user-selected one item of the plurality of items to the user-selected destination, and including the descendants of the moved user-selected one item of the plurality of items in the preview for display of the graphical representation; in response to a click of a like it button or a click of a don't like it button in the graphical user interface, entering a rating of a selected item in the graphical user interface; in response to a click of an enhance button in the graphical user interface allowing a user to create an item enhancing a selected item in the graphical user interface; in response to a click of an edit button in the graphical user interface allowing a user to edit a selected item in the graphical user interface; and in response to a click of a delete button in the graphical user interface deleting a selected item in the graphical user interface; wherein the graphical user interface includes the like it button, the don't like it button, the enhance button, the edit button and the delete button.
41. The system of claim 39 wherein the size of each shape decreases as the first value of the first metric of each item increases, and the size of each shape increases as the first value of the first metric of each item decreases.