Start Innovation Maturity Quick scan

The Innovation Maturity Tool offers you a quick scan to evaluate your organization’s ability to innovate across five critical categories: Innovation Process, Goals & Performance, People & Culture, Management & Organization, and Tools & IT.

This straightforward assessment helps you quickly identify your current capabilities, spot gaps, and uncover opportunities for improvement. It provides clarity on how well-defined and effective your innovation processes are, whether your goals and performance align with strategic outcomes, and how your people and culture foster innovation. Additionally, it reviews how leadership supports innovation and whether your tools and IT systems are sufficient.

Innovation Maturity Model

If an organization decides to continue to grow, innovation is inseparable with the grow. Generally, 50% of the growth has to do with innovation. The start can be made quickly: collecting innovative ideas, free up the budget, appointing special project managers who can manage the innovative projects. Than the question is, what will be your next step? What will have the biggest impact? Most of the time the organization doesn’t have the resources to execute everything. It’s important to choose between multiple steps you want to take. Which steps have priority and which steps can be postponed?

Innovation can be of great value if you use it in every layer of your organization, from strategy to operations and the supporting systems. This will have a big impact on your organization if it is done correctly. Not surprising that it takes effort to have a clear organization map for innovation. The Innovation Maturity model can provide these insights and overviews. An Innovation Maturity Model helps organizations to make the right development step by step.

Innovation Maturity Categories

Goals & performance

Business and innovation strategy, results of innovation projects, Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

People & Culture

Culture, innovation activities / employee behavior, idea generation and follow-up.

Processes

Processes implemented to retrieve, manage and successfully execute innovations

Tools & IT

Software and tools used to manage idea generation, idea management and innovations

Management & organization

Tasks, functions, roles, and responsibilities within the organization.

Levels of maturity

Maturity level

1. Initiated

Innovation takes place, but usually ad-hoc and completely driven by individual questions from customers and/or employees. In the company, people are generally not yet fully aware of what in innovatie organization must comply with and which roles and responsibilities go with it.

2. Defined

Ideas are now actively being collected, but optimized innovation processes or procedures are not yes used for this. People are aware of the required roles and responsibilities, they just have not yet been assigned and given the right priority.

3. Managed

Innovations are actively managed from a roadmap. Almost all parts of the Innovation Framework have been implemented and work together to a certain extent. Roles and responsibilities are clear and assigned.

4. Optimized

The roadmap with innovatie projects and initiatives are the driving force behind forces behind the strategic planning, project management and innovation. All parts of the innovation framework have been implemented and have already undergone several of improvements. Roles and responsibilities are clear and assigned