Assessment

Innovation Capability Maturity Self-Assessment

An interactive, saveable self-assessment that maps current innovation capability across five dimensions, captures target levels and contextual notes, helps teams prioritize pragmatic next steps, and supports tracking experiments and ownership.

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Innovation Capability Maturity Self-Assessment

Use this interactive assessment to map your team's current innovation capability across five practical dimensions: Strategy & leadership, Skills & roles, Processes & metrics, Data & tooling, and Governance & funding. For each dimension, select the level that best matches your current state, capture your desired target, and add notes about context and constraints. The form saves your responses so you can track progress, prioritize where to run experiments, and convert findings into focused improvement steps.

This assessment is intentionally pragmatic and human-centered: it avoids single aggregated scores and encourages context-sensitive priorities and small, measurable experiments. After you save, review the Prioritized Next Steps and the Experiment Template fields, pick one concrete experiment you can complete within your available capacity, and assign an owner and a clear success metric.

This assessment is suitable to copy and tailor for teams, sites, or business units. When you adapt it, keep evidence notes and dates so you can compare assessments over time.

Assessed by (name)

Who completed this assessment? Use a name, team, or role to track ownership.

Assessment date

Use YYYY-MM-DD or a readable date. Update when you re-run the assessment.

Team or unit

Which team, department, or site does this assessment describe?

Tags (comma-separated)

Optional: keywords to help filter or find this assessment later (e.g., 'pilot, healthcare, Q3').

Strategy & leadership — Current level

Level examples: 1 = No coherent innovation strategy; activity is ad-hoc. 2 = Emerging strategy, some leadership sponsorship but limited alignment. 3 = Clear strategy tied to goals, leadership support, and some dedicated initiatives. 4 = Strategy is integrated into planning, resourcing, and measures; leadership routinely sponsors experiments and scales results. Choose the level that best fits today.

1.0 10.0

Strategy & leadership — Target level (where you want to be in 6–18 months)

Pick a realistic near-term target. Targets help prioritize which dimensions to act on first.

Notes: Strategy & leadership (evidence, gaps, recent changes)

Record concrete observations (e.g., recent strategy doc, executive sponsor, barriers, or a missing KPI).

Skills & roles — Current level

Level examples: 1 = No defined innovation roles or skills; relies on individual initiative. 2 = Some roles and training exist but are inconsistent. 3 = Defined roles, regular training, and resourcing for experiments. 4 = Cross-functional capability with career paths, mentoring, and systemic skill development.

1.0 10.0

Skills & roles — Target level

Choose a practical target considering hiring, training, or role design needs.

Notes: Skills & roles

Name skill gaps, staffing constraints, or promising internal experts.

Processes & metrics — Current level

Level examples: 1 = No repeatable innovation processes, outcomes not measured. 2 = Some processes (e.g., ideation) exist but are inconsistent and poorly measured. 3 = Standardized processes and metrics for experiments and learning. 4 = Processes embed fast feedback, portfolio management, and reliable measures of impact.

1.0 10.0

Processes & metrics — Target level

A realistic process target helps you choose experiments that test key assumptions quickly.

Notes: Processes & metrics

List current processes, what you measure today, and what matters to stakeholders.

Data & tooling — Current level

Level examples: 1 = Little usable data or tooling to test ideas. 2 = Some data and tools available but fragmented. 3 = Integrated data and tooling supporting experiments and learning. 4 = Robust data practices, tooling, and analytics that accelerate insight and decision-making.

1.0 10.0

Data & tooling — Target level

Balance ambitions with realistic data access and tooling investments.

Notes: Data & tooling

Describe available data sources, tooling gaps, and quick wins (e.g., a dashboard or a small experiment).

Governance & funding — Current level

Level examples: 1 = No governance or funding for innovation; experiments rely on informal pockets of effort. 2 = Ad-hoc funding or pilot grants; governance unclear. 3 = Clear governance, funding channels, and decision gates for scaling. 4 = Sustainable funding models, governance aligned to strategy, and mechanisms to transfer learnings into operations.

1.0 10.0

Governance & funding — Target level

Pick a target that your leadership and finance teams can realistically support.

Notes: Governance & funding

Record decision owners, funding sources, or barriers to be addressed.

How confident are you in these self-assessments? (1 = low, 5 = high)

Higher confidence suggests the assessment is evidence-based. Lower confidence flags a need for data collection or broader input.

1.0 10.0

Available capacity to act in the next 3 months

Be honest about capacity. Overambitious plans are a common failure mode.

Which single dimension should be the top priority now?

Pick the one area where progress would unlock the most value.

How to compute gaps

For each dimension, compute gap = (target level) - (current level). Enter 0 if target equals current. Use gaps to help prioritize — larger gaps may indicate opportunity, but weigh against capacity and confidence.

Strategy gap (target - current)