Innovation Culture Readiness □ Give your company a score from 1 to 5 for each area.
□ Define which area you’d like to improve over the next strategyzer.com
How ready are you to become an invincible company? 12 and 36 months.
□ Eliminate the blockers and implement the enablers
that will help you achieve your improvement goals.
BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE We WORLD CLASS
We have little We have We regularly frequently Our practice is
to no experience some work this way, work used as a case study
with this topic experience but not systematically this way for others to learn from
1 2 3 4 5
Strategic
Guidance Leadership does not provide There is some strategic guidance for innovation but Leadership provides strategic innovation guidance
explicit strategic guidance for innovation not everybody in the company knows it at important meetings and everybody knows it
1 2 3 4 5
Resource
Leadership Allocation Resources for innovation are Resources for innovation are available, but they are Resources for innovation are institutionalized and
Support bootstrapped or on an ad-hoc project basis not substantial and not protected leaders commit at least 50% of their time to innovation
1 2 3 4 5
Portfolio
Management Leadership is We make some investments to Leadership is eager to pioneer and invests in a
mainly focused on explore the future and new business models, large innovation pipeline of small bets of which the
improving the core business but it's not systematic best get follow-up investments
1 2 3 4 5
Legitimacy
and Power Innovation projects are skunk work Innovation is officially in the org chart, Innovation is at the very top of the org chart
and outside official channels but lacks power and influence and has power and influence
1 2 3 4 5
Organizational Bridge to
the Core
Design Innovation teams have limited or no access to cus-
tomers, resources, and skills of the core business
The core business and innovation teams
collaborate, but there are conflicts
There are clear policies that help innovation teams
and the core business collaborate as equal partners
Rewards 1 2 3 4 5
and
Incentives Innovation does not have a dedicated incentive We have some incentives in place to encourage Innovation has a dedicated incentive system that
system that differs from the core business innovation and reward it differently from execution rewards experimentation and new value creation
1 2 3 4 5
Innovation
Tools We do not use business model, lean startup, Business model, lean startup, or design thinking Business model, lean startup, or design thinking
or design thinking tools for innovation tools are used in pockets of the organization tools are widely adopted and mastered
Innovation 1 2 3 4 5
Practice Process
Management Our processes are linear and We occasionally use iterative processes Our processes are optimized for innovation
requiredetailed business plans with and systematic business experiments and we systematically measure the reduction
financial projections to test business ideas of risk in new ideas
1 2 3 4 5
Innovation
Skills We don’t hire for innovation skills and experience We occasionally hire experienced innovation talent We hire and develop world class innovation talent
and don’t develop them and train some specialized staff in innovation with extensive experience across the organization
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