Innovation Readiness (IR) Organisational Heartbeats

 

Innovation can be defined as planned change. Innovation is not necessarily developing new products - although it sometimes is - but about implementing new ideas for reducing costs, improving quality, and providing better customer service. In short, innovation is about the harnessing the creative talents in your organisation to develop new and better ways of doing things.

The ability to innovate confers a key competitive advantage. Organisations that fail to innovate may succeed initially, but changing markets and competitive pressures are ever-present threats to maintaining their market position.
 
The Organisational Heartbeats Innovation questionnaire consists of ten broadly phrased questions that explore the three key elements of an innovative culture. The responses, properly interpreted, give an immediate and valuable insight into the extent to which your organisation's culture supports innovation, and which aspects of the culture are hindering innovation. This provides a springboard for deeper, more targeted exploration, and management action.

It is expected that norm data will be available in summer 2010

To see a sample report and sample questions (items) please click here.

To read additional information on Innovation please click here.