Do I need to measure innovation capability?
Your organization is capable to innovate and most probably experienced already some form of successful innovation. But is it capable to consistently innovate, again and again? Is your past success just an accident or do you have the ability to repeat it as needed, responding to an ever changing business environment with new solutions that redefine what is possible?
If successful innovation is an ongoing reality for your organization, can you improve the way you innovate? What factors will impact your ability to efficiently generate new breakthrough solutions and what can you learn from companies that successfully did it before? How can you benchmark your company and see how innovative you are on global scale? How can you move to the next level and how does that level look like?
Innovation Capability and Maturity Model (ICMM)
Innovation Spring is promoting the Innovation Capability and Maturity Model published by Darrell Mann (Systematic Innovation UK) as it provides
- Clear definition and distinction between different capability levels
- A good direction for moving from one level to the next
- The relationship between innovation capability levels and the type of innovation you can consistently approach with a successful result
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Research for supporting this model
The 5 levels of Innovation Capability and Maturity Model
Level 1 - Seeding: Reactive organizations, focusing on stability, silos departments, innovator is isolated and usually has only small successes related to process innovation
Level 2 - Championing: Reduced collaboration, silos, innovation needs measurement to gain credibility and is “tolerated”, impacting both processes and the creation of new products and services
Level 3 - Managing: Innovation becomes strategic, innovation processes are in place, success is expected within current area of expertise, silos boundaries can be crossed, functional business innovation complements process and product innovation
Level 4 - Strategizing: Flexible structures, agility, dismantled silos, C-level business innovation redefines how organizations work
Level 5- Venturing: Lean business, redesigning itself for its purpose, transformational leaders, innovation impacts the business eco-system surrounding the organization
Innovation Capability Assessments
Innovation Spring provides a two step assessment, including a questionnaire and a validation of the results through interviews with relevant people.
While this can be simple for small businesses, it could become quite complex for large companies where different parts of the organization are at different innovation capability levels, requiring a thorough review of how this will impact the entire business.
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