Innovation Survey

This survey addresses management issues impacting corporate innovativeness;

• management and Board expectations
• tolerance for new ideas, mavericks, failure, out-of-box thinking
• finding opportunities versus a focus on cost reduction
• people management
• incentives for innovators
• internal communicatins and openness to ideas
• use of independent work groups to get things done
• hierarchy and decentralization of decision making
• new venture financing

By participating in this free survey, comprised of 25 Factors, you will have a much better understanding of your current environment for innovation. You will be able to set priorities for addressing issues in the  areas of leadership, management and organization of day-to-day affairs, or in idea generation and realization. The survey will take about 10 minutes to complete.

Results are confidential and secure. Information will be used by us for statistical purposes only. You can change the data and receive a revised report by logging back in at any time. Just use your e-mail and password.

Expand the use of the survey by having others in your corporation complete the survey. Is your organization aligned? Is there a consistency of viewpoint vertically through the organization and across business units?  Contact us to receive a customized report based on responses from those in your own organization.

The data base now includes entries from around the world; U.S.A., Canada, Turkey, U.K., Romania, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Chile, Japan, Brazil, Czech Republic, Portugal and Russia. While the good news is that the data base is larger, respondents need to be mindfull that the averages are from respondents from all countries. Check out the latest results for SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises).

Answering the Survey Questions

Each question has two facets. The top row is “Your Ideal” – how you think things should be – and the bottom row is “Your Reality” – how things actually are in your daily experience. Please answer both.

Guidance for completing survey. We have compared our resondents’ view on the ‘Ideal’ with that of our own ranking of what the ‘Ideal’ is for the innovative companies we have profiled. Download Mean Ideal versus W&P Ranking. This may help in setting your own ‘Ideal’.

In the example below, the respondent has indicated that, ideally, there should be some mechanism for rewarding innovation, but that the reality for this respondent is that there is less evidence of such mechanisms.

There is no “positive” or “negative” correlation between answers left or right of the “0.” In other words, answering with a “-3″ does not necessarily indicate a judgmentally “negative” response. Please note the extremes measured in each question carefully before answering.