Online Assessment To Identify Areas to Improve in your innovation culture

An 'Online' Innovation Culture Assessment

Try our Innovation Culture Assessment tool which will help you find the aspects of your organization’s innovation culture that require development. Please answer all of the questions below.

Assessment of Innovation Culture by Peter Merrill

Exploration

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly Agree
We are excited to explore and to create new offerings	1	2	3	4
We are good at asking questions externally	1	2	3	4
We find opportunities from a wide range of sources	1	2	3	4
We quickly analyze new opportunities	1	2	3	4
We define unmet user needs and challenges	1	2	3	4
We act quickly on opportunities	1	2	3	4

Collaboration

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly Agree
We value and respect diversity	1	2	3	4
We have a wide range of experiences, competences, perspectives	1	2	3	4
We have respect and trust between each other	1	2	3	4
We encourage feedback and suggestions	1	2	3	4
We have collaboration tools for ideas, portfolios and users	1	2	3	4
We use external networks including universities, institutes, suppliers	1	2	3	4

Ideation

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly Agree
We are free to pursue new opportunities	1	2	3	4
We dedicate time and physical space to generate concept solutions	1	2	3	4
We encourage diverse perspectives	1	2	3	4
We like risk	1	2	3	4
We challenge current assumptions	1	2	3	4
We voice our opinions about controversial ideas.	1	2	3	4

Experimentation

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly Agree
We quickly move good ideas to prototypes	1	2	3	4
We test the assumptions in a new idea	1	2	3	4
We are not afraid to fail	1	2	3	4
We have structured learning from failures	1	2	3	4
We stop projects based on failure criteria	1	2	3	4
We balance assumption-based and evidence-based decision-making	1	2	3	4

Realization

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly Agree
We understand the behavior difference in creativity and delivery	1	2	3	4
We move our projects forward to plan	1	2	3	4
Leaders help us navigate obstacles	1	2	3	4
Leaders change course when needed	1	2	3	4
Our processes are flexible	1	2	3	4
People take responsibility for their actions and avoid blaming others	1	2	3	4

Commercialization

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly Agree
We go quickly to market	1	2	3	4
Our new offerings are right first time	1	2	3	4
We rapidly scale new offerings	1	2	3	4
Our customers think of us as innovative	1	2	3	4
We have feedback loops from the voice of the customer	1	2	3	4
Leaders persist in adversity	1	2	3	4

Organization

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly Agree
Our organization structure enables innovation	1	2	3	4
We minimize rules and policie, to simplify our workplace	1	2	3	4
We pursue a long-term innovation strategy	1	2	3	4
We dedicate finances for innovation	1	2	3	4
Leaders are visibly committed to innovation	1	2	3	4
Creativity and delivery coexist with comfort	1	2	3	4

Population

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly Agree
We have a common language about innovation	1	2	3	4
Leaders model innovation behaviors	1	2	3	4
We have the internal talent to succeed	1	2	3	4
Leaders support project team members during failures	1	2	3	4
We understand the competences needed to innovate	1	2	3	4
We change easily	1	2	3	4

Regeneration

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Agree	Strongly Agree
Leaders coach and provide feedback	1	2	3	4
We build our people’s innovation competencies	1	2	3	4
We recruit people who will thrive in a culture of innovation	1	2	3	4
We reward people for participating in risky opportunities	1	2	3	4
We recognize innovative behaviors	1	2	3	4
We understand the difference between recognition and reward	1	2	3	4

The following are your scores for each aspect of your organization’s innovation culture:

Exploration:

Collaboration:

Ideation:

Experimentation:

Realization:

Commercialization:

Organization:

Population:

Regeneration:

Your three lowest scores are:

Please check that all questions have been answered and submit again.

Your three lowest scores are the aspects of your culture that need your attention. Look at each aspect in the scoresheet and identify two or three behaviours within that aspect that you can focus on in order to develop your innovation culture.