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A system for providing a graphical representation of a plurality of items in a collaborative environment, the system comprising: a hardware processor operatively connected to a memory and an interface; the memory comprising: a plurality of items, each item having an association with at least one other item; the interface operatively connected to the memory; the hardware processor operable to: communicate via the interface with a device of a user, wherein a collaborative innovation process is initiated 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 one or more idea items are innovated directly or indirectly in response to the seed item, and wherein the plurality of items comprises the seed item and the one or more idea 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 by the hardware processor in the graphical user interface, at least one display area comprising: a graphical display area for graphically displaying a graphical representation of a 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 item is an idea item that was innovated from the at least one other item, the graphical display area comprising: right, left, top and bottom regions; a display modifier, in the top left region of the graphical display area, comprising directional controls to navigate the graphical representation, the display modifier operable to receive inputs at the directional controls to navigate the graphical representation up, down, right, and left; a shape modification section, in the top right region of the graphical display area, operable to: receive 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 first value of the first metric of each respective item; receive 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 respective 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; and display in the at least one display area the transformed graphical representation and the textual outline representation of the plurality of items, wherein the transformed graphical representation comprising the metrics of the idea items and the textual outline representation comprising textual descriptive information of the plurality of idea items are simultaneously displayed on the device of the user in the graphical representation display area and an outline display area respectively, wherein the graphical representation display area and the 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 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 outline display area; and receive, 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 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; move by the hardware processor, 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; and associating the selected one item of the plurality of items with another item based on user input; provide 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 allow 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, enter 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 allow 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 allow 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 delete 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.
48. A system for providing a graphical representation of a plurality of items in a collaborative environment, the system comprising: a hardware processor operatively connected to a memory and an interface; the memory comprising: a plurality of items, each item having an association with at least one other item; the interface operatively connected to the memory; the hardware processor operable to: communicate via the interface with a device of a user, wherein a collaborative innovation process is initiated 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 one or more idea items are innovated directly or indirectly in response to the seed item, and wherein the plurality of items comprises the seed item and the one or more idea 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 by the hardware processor in the graphical user interface, at least one display area comprising: a graphical display area for graphically displaying a graphical representation of a 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 item is an idea item that was innovated from the at least one other item, the graphical display area comprising: right, left, top and bottom regions; a display modifier, in the top left region of the graphical display area, comprising directional controls to navigate the graphical representation, the display modifier operable to receive inputs at the directional controls to navigate the graphical representation up, down, right, and left; a shape modification section, in the top right region of the graphical display area, operable to: receive 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 first value of the first metric of each respective item; receive 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 respective 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; and display in the at least one display area the transformed graphical representation and the textual outline representation of the plurality of items, wherein the transformed graphical representation comprising the metrics of the idea items and the textual outline representation comprising textual descriptive information of the plurality of idea items are simultaneously displayed on the device of the user in the graphical representation display area and an outline display area respectively, wherein the graphical representation display area and the 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 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 outline display area; and receive, 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 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; move by the hardware processor, 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; and associating the selected one item of the plurality of items with another item based on user input; provide 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 allow 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, enter 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 allow 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 allow 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 delete 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. 49. The system of claim 48 , wherein the hardware processor is operative to display a result of the collaborative innovation processes as an ordered list of one or more of the items innovated directly or indirectly from the seed item, wherein the result is relative to the content of the seed item and wherein the ordered list is ordered based on ratings received from one or more users, or based on one or more metrics associated with the plurality of items.