Innovation Culture Readiness Assessment
Score your company from 1 to 5 across eight areas of leadership support, organizational design, and innovation practice. Then pick what to improve over the next 12 and 36 months.
The playbooks walk you through it with your team.
A score alone won't build an innovation culture
A great tool is just the starting point.
Downloading a Strategyzer tool gives you a practical starting point you can use today. The real value comes from knowing when to use it, how to use it well, and what to do next. That’s what Strategyzer Playbooks are for.
Guided methods
Step-by-step guidance for applying Strategyzer’s methods with your team, instead of just filling in a static template on your own.
The full Strategyzer toolkit
The Business Model Canvas, the Value Proposition Canvas, the Testing Card, the Portfolio Map, and more: Strategyzer’s full library of interconnected tools and methods, ready to use.
Ready-to-run sessions
Facilitation guides, agendas, and digital whiteboards so you can run a session with your team this week, not next quarter.
About the Innovation Culture Readiness Assessment
See how ready your company is to innovate
The Innovation Readiness tool focuses on three areas
Leadership support
Assesses strategic alignment, resource allocation and the business portfolio.
Organization design
focuses on team empowerment, access to resources and the incentive system for innovation.
Innovation practice
Measures the tools, processes and skills training to support innovation. We initially created the self assessment tool to help organizations learn from each other. The main focus is on assessing how successful a company is at innovating consistently — rather than running one-off innovation projects.
At the moment, companies are jumping in feet first, looking to innovate before they’ve done the work to assess their level of readiness to nurture innovation and build the right internal structures and environment.
We were motivated to iterate this tool to help companies assess their innovation readiness, and we hope it will help you and your team think thoughtfully about your preparedness for innovation, so you can jump in with your eyes wide open.
See what a playbook actually looks like
A playbook is not a course, a template pack, or a consulting engagement. It’s guided work that takes your team through a proven Strategyzer method one step at a time.
See Strategyzer Playbooks in action
You have the tool.
Here's what teams do next
Each one is a session you can run with your team this week,
with the agenda and whiteboard included.
How market ready is your project?
Move beyond guessing if your project is ready. Step through a structured risk assessment to gain total clarity on your market readiness before scaling.
Assumptions mapping (prepare to test your business idea, part 1)
Extract and prioritize the riskiest assumptions underlying your business idea across desirability, feasibility, and viability risk categories to prepare for evidence-based testing.
Download the Innovation Culture Readiness Assessment
Get the full assessment on one printable page, ready for your next leadership session.
- One-page PDF, ready to print or share on screen
- Eight areas to score, from strategic guidance to innovation skills
- Built for leadership teams, strategy offsites, and innovation reviews
- Free to download and share with your team
Score each area from beginner to world class, set your 12- and 36-month goals, and act on the blockers and enablers.
