Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research - Innovation & Entrepreneurship

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Impediments to Innovation

Consider each statement, and assign a rating from 1 to 5, using the following scale: 1 (fully disagree), 2 (disagree), 3 (neither agree nor disagree), 4 (agree), 5 (fully agree)

Answer the following questions about your organisation.

	1	2	3	4	5
Ideas Inside
Our culture makes it hard for people to put forward novel ideas	1	2	3	4	5

People in our organisation come up with very few good ideas on their own	1	2	3	4	5

Ideas Outside
Few good ideas for new products and businesses come from outside the company	1	2	3	4	5

Our people often exhibit a 'not invented here' attitude -ideas from outside aren't considered as valuable as those invented within	1	2	3	4	5

Cross Pollination
Few of our innovation projects involve team members from different units or functions	1	2	3	4	5

Our people typically don't collaborate on projects across units, businesses, or functions	1	2	3	4	5

Selection
We have tough rules for investment in new projects -it's often too hard to get ideas funded	1	2	3	4	5

We have a risk-averse attitude towards investing in novel ideas	1	2	3	4	5

Development
New product development projects often don’t finish on time	1	2	3	4	5

Managers have a hard time getting traction developing new businesses	1	2	3	4	5

Diffusion
We are slow to roll out new products, services and businesses	1	2	3	4	5

We don't penetrate all possible channels, customer groups and regions with new products and services	1	2	3	4	5

Developing an Innovation Culture

Please fill in your answers to the 14 questions below, from the perspectives of your immediate team of subordinates.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Decision autonomy
I have full control over the decisions/activities affecting me	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

My line manager(s) tend to take a passive, hands-off approach to managing employees	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

Slack for experiment
My tasks tend to be broadly-defined, requiring a great deal of creativity	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

Funds/resources are freely available for me to pursue any new idea	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

Stretch
The goals for my department/area are overly challenging/aggressive	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

My line manager(s) assign projects and performance objectives that overly stretch my capabilities	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

Focus
The strategy for my department/area is so unclear that much interpretation is needed	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

There does not seem to be a clear focus to the projects being pursued in my department/area	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

Rule-based boundaries
Risk factors (regulatory, reputational, operational) have little impact on whether I can pursue an idea	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

The number of functions needed in my department/area to sign off on a significant new activity is very low (typically 1-2)	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

Norm-based boundaries
My line manager(s) strongly encourage departing from formal roles and responsibilities	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

There are few informal/formal rules inhibiting me from pursuing new ideas	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

Support System
I frequently lack the necessary information to make the right decisions	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

Processes and systems to replicate best practices and share knowledge are ad hoc at best	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

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