Understand better your organization’s innovation capability level with our interactive innovation assessment tool

The innovation assessment tool focuses attention on 6 elements of the innovation system, enabling efficiently analyzing existing innovation practices and capabilities. By analyzing each element, you will understand which aspects of your organization require attention in order to make you more successful at innovation. The innovation assessment tool helps pinpoint your organization’s innovation strengths and weaknesses. The results of the innovation assessment will show performance on each element of the innovation system providing practical recommendations where and how company needs to focus to maximize innovation success.

MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

How top management envisions & understands innovation?

STRATEGY

Why do we innovate?

PEOPLE & CULTURE

Who is responsible for making innovation happen?

PROCESS

How effective are your innovation processes?

TOOLS

What facilitates our innovation?

METRICS

How do we measure our innovation progress?

This 5-minute Innovation Assessment is a baseline evaluation of your perception of your company’s current innovation efforts. Innovation Assessment tool enables you to:

  • - assess your organization’s current innovation practices and capabilities
  • - pinpoints organization’s strengths and weaknesses
  • - visually understand and set the priority work areas

Management and Leadership

Please rate to what degree your management supports innovation?

Strategy

Please rate to what degree your organization has an explicit innovation strategy?

People and Culture

Please rate to what degree your organization encourages employees in innovation?

Processes

Please rate to what degree your organization has established processes for innovation?

Tools

Please rate to what degree your organization has implemented the tools for managing innovation?

Metrics

Please rate to what degree your organization has defined metrics for innovation?

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Top management provides clear guidance for all phases of the innovation process.
Management is aligned about innovations to be developed, whether incremental, breakthrough or transformational.
Top, middle and project management are aligned in their expectations due to innovation activities.
Our top management supports employees to successfully identify, develop and implement ideas.
Our top management devotes time to train and provide feedback to our innovation efforts.
Top managers make top down decisions on which projects and opportunities to pursue.
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We have a clearly defined innovation strategy which guides our innovation activities and decisions.
My organization is open to all kinds of innovation. This could be a product, service, business model, marketing or business process innovation.
There are regularly planned and executed open innovation campaigns.
My organization has invested in building a cross departmental innovation management team and system.
Innovation investments are aligned with overall strategy and specific business objectives.
Innovation portfolio management systematically directs funds to the highest value and most strategic ideas and opportunities.
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Innovation is managed and driven by diverse cross-functional group throughout the entire organization.
Innovation activity is viewed and acted upon as a part of daily tasks and deliverables.
Our people have strong capability to innovate.
All employees in our organization understand their role in innovation management.
My organization’s leaders and managers publicly recognize employees or teams for their innovation accomplishments.
There are multiple innovation champions across the organization.
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My organization has been documenting processes for ideation, idea screening, idea experimentation, idea development and launch.
Idea generation, evaluation forms and templates are used to standardize processes across the entire organization.
We apply challenge-driven and agile experimentation model in order to find new creative solutions.
In my organization, idea generation is connected process with product and portfolio management.
We have standard processes across departments with defined owners who have the authority to make decisions.
We leverage best practices and proven methods across the entire innovation management flow.
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We are manually manage and track innovation activities by using spreadsheets.
An innovation management system has been selected and implemented.
Fully automated data-driven tools are used to manage the entire innovation management workflow.
My organization has a set of tools across each phase of the innovation process – from idea management through development and implementation of new ideas to the market tracing.
Our innovation management tool has reward and recognition system to motivate and recognize contributors.
Our innovation management system is fully integrated and connected with existing reward systems, HR solutions, ERP, CRM and collaboration tools.
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Organizational standard-based metrics are used to measure cross-functional innovation activities and results.
Key innovation management performance indicators are being tracked and analyzed.
Innovation management metrics are treated as individual data points.
Executive dashboards are shared and reviewed to gauge innovation funnel, trends and portfolios.
We have a formal action plan in place when target engagement levels or innovation results are not met.
My organization allows different departments to establish their own success metrics related to innovation.
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