360InnovateX: Preliminary Innovation Maturity Scan

The 360InnovateX Preliminary Innovation Maturity Scan offers organizations a fast and accessible way to evaluate their current innovation environment. This light-touch self-assessment enables leadership teams to reflect on their innovation capabilities, identify critical gaps, and determine readiness for more structured innovation efforts—without the need for an immediate full-scale engagement.

Based on the 360InnovateX Framework, the assessment draws on 21 core innovation competencies, providing a high-level view across strategic alignment, culture, governance, and execution. It is designed to be intuitive, insight-driven, and actionable—ideal for organizations seeking to benchmark their innovation health and understand where to focus next.

Completing the scan equips teams with a snapshot of their innovation strengths and challenges, laying the foundation for deeper evaluations, targeted improvement strategies, and broader engagement with innovation partners or advisory support.

Questionnaire Guidelines

Objective of the questionnaire
The broad aim of the questionnaire is to provide a quick innovation score about your organization's innovation maturity. This only serves as a guideline. However, the score may differ after evaluating the quality of the documentary evidence and assessing the on-ground innovation practices.
Experienced Personnel
Only experienced employees should fill in the questionnaire. Experienced personnel possess deep domain knowledge and historical perspective, making them to identify feasible answers for innovation and assess potential impact more accurately. Their practical insights, network connections, and ability to pinpoint critical issues make them invaluable in completing innovation questionnaires effectively.
Documentary Evidence
It is assumed that documentary evidence is available to substantiate the answers. Documentary evidence strengthens the assessment's reliability, providing credibility and verifiability to innovation practices or solutions. It also provides the foundation of innovations, offering valuable insights into the organization's processes to report challenges, risks, the evolution of innovations, efficiency, and outcomes, and helps decision-makers evaluating the results make informed innovation strategies and choices.
Understanding Preliminary Scores
Upon completing the questionnaire, organizations receive a maturity score that provides a clear snapshot of their current innovation reality and needs.