| Innovation Climate: How innovative is your organization?
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following questions will help you see where your organization
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| 1. Do you routinely solicit, listen to, and act on suggestions
from people from every level and function of your organization? |
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| 2. Employees feel a strong desire to make contributions to
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| 3. Are project teams given considerable
freedom to make decisions and act on them without needing permission? |
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| 4.
Making honest mistakes and taking risks are valued-they are
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| 5. Is
information freely and readily available to everyone in your
organization rather than on a need-to-know-basis? |
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| 6.
Do you try things out on a small scale to find out what works? |
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| 7.
Once something is shown to work on a small scale, the company
is good at scaling up quickly. |
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| 8.
Can you take action when you need to versus getting or waiting
for permission to act? |
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| 9.
Can you safely divert from assigned tasks to explore new ideas
you think have promise? |
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| 10. In meetings and discussions,
my boss’s attention rarely extends beyond the next: |
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