INNOVATION MATURITY ASSESSMENT

KNOWING YOUR PLACE / BECOMING A CINORG®

For any organization having (or desiring) a formalized Corporate Innovation Program, there are always the very real and important questions of...

• “How far along are we?”
• “How mature and capable is our innovation program?”
• “How does it stack up against the best in the world for being able to consistently drive new innovation in our organization?”

These are the questions that a properly conducted Innovation Maturity Assessment will answer, when done using world-class methods and tools that are based on a comprehensive benchmark.   Such an assessment will reveal your organization's level of innovation maturity and capability, and thus the effectiveness of its innovation program.   It will also reveal the gaps to achieving higher levels of maturity, so that thereafter you can develop and carry out a plan for improving the program, making your organization more capable of producing greater impact on the organization and its markets and customers.

Likewise, for any organization that wishes to not only know their current level of innovation maturity, but also seeks to attain formal accreditation of their Innovation Program from Global Innovation Institute, the GInI-sanctioned Certified Innovative Organization® Innovation Maturity Assessment is the stepping stone to achieving that accreditation.   If achieved, it is an honor that places your organization and its innovation program within an esteemed group from around the world who take their innovation programs – and the results they produce on behalf of the organization – very seriously.   These are organizations who have the real-world results to show for their efforts.

Learn more about Global Innovation Institute's Certified Innovative Organization® organizational accreditation (CInOrg®) at www.gini.org/cinorg/.

THE ENGAGEMENT

The Innovation Maturity Assessment Engagement typically follows these steps:

1. We begin by listening to you so as to understand your goals for conducting the Innovation Maturity Assessment and/or achieving the CInOrg® accreditation.
2. We then walk you through the overall assessment process to ensure that you understand the process correctly and in full.
3. We then schedule the on-site assessment (including a detailed interview agenda) and set dates for when your organization will provide us with its upfront documentation (for the preliminary document review).   Preliminary documents are to be provided to us no later than one month prior to the scheduled on-site assessment.
4. Upon the scheduled date, we bring our Assessors into your organization and carry out the scheduled interviews with your designated staff members.   The on-site assessment typically takes anywhere from 3 - 5 days to complete, though in some cases can take more or less time depending on the details of your organization.   We will establish this with you upfront when scheduling.
5. Afterward, our Assessors will complete the InMAR and submit to GInI.   This typically happens within two weeks of completing the on-site assessment.
6. GInI will then conduct its review of our InMAR and thereafter notify you of its determination, as well as share with you a copy of the InMAR.   This process typically takes 4 weeks or less after receiving the InMAR from us.
7. Following GInI's review, you may contact us with any questions about the InMAR, or arrange to have us come present it to your organization in person.
8. Subsequent to this, and as desired, we can also be retained for consulting services to help you address the InMAR's gap findings, and thereby improve the innovation maturity of your organization and its innovation program.   See our Corporate Innovation Consulting page to learn more about this.