Innovation Maturity Assessment
Self-score your innovation function across strategy, process, culture, governance and capability — a structured read on where you actually are before you decide where to go next.
Maturity assessments are most useful when more than one person fills them out. The gaps between how the innovation team, its executive sponsor and its business-unit partners score the same dimension tell you more than the average.
Five dimensions, each with behavioral descriptions at four levels, so scoring is grounded in observable practice rather than aspiration.
Run it annually. The trend line matters more than the absolute score, and the dimensions that don't move are usually the ones that need structural change rather than more effort.
Self-score your function across strategy, process, culture and governance. This tool is part of the InnoLead Tools library — a set of editable templates drawn from what our members use to run innovation functions inside large organizations.
- Download the workbook and save a copy under your team's naming convention.
- Replace the sample rows with your own initiatives, then adjust the column headers to match how your organization tracks work.
- Refresh it on a set cadence — most teams update monthly and review with leadership quarterly.
