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1. Just
How
Innovative
Are You
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2. How many hours a month do What's the most effective
you dedicate to innovation? way to encourage innovation
1. About 5 minutes in your organization?
2. 1-3 hours 1. Reward it
3. 5-10 hours 2. Make it "ok" to try and fail
4. Should I include sleeping and 3. Provide management backing
weekend time? 4. All of the above
How many innovation books What's your preferred
have you read over the last approach for coming up with
year? new ideas?
1. They write books on this 1. Wait for a good idea to spark
stuff? 2. Sit with a few colleagues and
2. 1-3 brainstorm
3. 4-6 3. Use systematic tools for
4. I lost count innovation
4. Call in the professional
How many Innovation innovation facilitators
companies are you familiar
with? What is the optimal reason
1. Ooh, an innovation company! for kicking off an innovation
What's that? initiative?
2. 1 1. There's never a good reason
3. 5 to change existing successful
4. All of them practices
2. When there's time and
How many innovation money
conferences did you attend 3. Only in a crisis situation
over the last 2 years? 4. Innovation can always help
1. I'm sure I'll visit one some me find better ways to reach
time soon… any organizational goals
2. 1
3. 2
4. Attend…or speak at?

3. What does an organization What do you do to overcome
need to do in order to your mental fixedness?
become more innovative? 1. What's fixedness?
1. Create a constant pipeline of 2. Brainstorm
new products 3. Try and challenge my
2. Provide skills for innovative assumptions
thinking for many employees 4. Fixed, moi?
3. Put organizational support
structures in place (steering What is the greatest
committee, clear criteria for barrier to organizational
success in innovations, etc.) innovation?
4. All of the above 1. My refusal to share my genius
ideas
What is your reaction 2. Different kinds of fixedness
when you hear the term 3. No clear method of
"innovation"? measuring innovation efforts
1. Last year's buzz word 4. Seeing innovation as separate
2. Show me the money from day-to-day business
3. Expectation to hear
something exciting What in your opinion is the
4. Motivates me to ask "What most effective way to secure
can we be doing differently your company's long-term
and better?" future?
1. Keep on doing what we
How many innovation blogs know works
do you subscribe to? 2. Copy our hottest competitors
1. What's a blog? 3. Re-think and improve our
2. 1 business model, products and
3. 3 practices
4. Everything that I can get my 4. Make me CEO
hands on

4. How You Scored
13-25 You sound like you put the "no" in innovation…
Playing it safe, sticking to good, common-sense business practices, you are
dependable and a steady performer. However, keeping an open mind can
help you improve your company's performance. Innovation is more than last
year's "buzz-word" – you can come up with new ideas that can make you
more competitive in an ever-changing world. It might actually be your safest
bet.
Tip for your type: Perhaps we can open your mind to innovation. Visit the
SIT Innovation Blog: www.SITsite.com/blog
26-38 You're clearly an innovation champion
You have a well-rounded, holistic view of innovation and are clearly already
using it to your advantage. Although you realize that your individual
contribution plays a major part, you know that it's a team's innovation effort
that delivers the most effective results.
Tip for your type: Experience a systematic, counter-intuitive approach to
innovation that challenges conventional methods. Learn more by reading
"Finding Your Innovation Sweet Spot?" (available from info@SITsite.com)
39-52 Innovation guru
You implicitly understand innovation to be a key driver of your business
success – and experience has proven to you that it's a vehicle for achieving
a host of top business objectives, whether it's organic growth, cost-cutting,
increasing market share or becoming more sustainable. You're consulted
by peers and colleagues looking for someone to champion their cause to do
things a little differently – and you'll fight their corner, safe in the knowledge
that it's the innovators who are reshaping the world.
Tip for your type: When they make you CEO, be sure to call us in for an
organizational innovation project – we have much to learn from you. info@
SITsite.com
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Systematic Inventive Thinking