RE:INVENTION, inc. Everyday Inventive and Reinventive™ Everydayinventive.com

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1. 1 Why does your company want to innovate?

   To be more productive and competitive in new markets

   To increase profits and sales

   To develop a good idea

   2 Does your company support diversity?

   Yes - we have an adaptive and responsive diversity plan or program in place

   Somewhat - we support diversity only on an informal basis

   No

2. 3 Does your company have an innovation champion or champions?

   Yes - we have a designated employee or employees leading our innovation efforts

   Somewhat - we have an informal, volunteer champion(s)

   No

   4 Does your company have top-level management support for organizational innovation?

   Yes - innovation is part of our company's annual business directives

   Somewhat - the support is there but it is on an informal basis

   No

3. 5 Does your company have a budget for innovation?

   Yes - we prioritize the allocation of resources to innovation initiatives

   Somewhat - whenever possible we use surplus funds from other initiatives for innovative ideas and processes

   No

   6 Does your company have an employee feedback process?

   Yes – an adaptive and responsive process is in place

   Somewhat - we encourage informal feedback between employees and their immediate supervisors or other team members

   No

4. 7 Does your company encourage/reward innovation and inventiveness?

   Yes – an adaptive and responsive process is in place across the organization and is communicated to all employees

   Somewhat - but it is informal and left to the discretion of an employee's manager

   No

   8 Has your company successfully introduced, reinvented, or evolved products, services, and processes in the past two years?

   Yes - we achieved specific innovation and incremental continuous improvements goals and met all/many product, service, and process targets

   Somewhat - we made several product/service/process introductions or changes but we didn't achieve our desired results

   No

5. 9 Does your company currently have a variety of new products, services, and processes under development?

   Yes - we have specific initiatives currently underway and we are consistently meeting or surpassing targets and goals

   Somewhat - we are struggling with identifying, prioritizing, and/or moving forward with these projects

   No

   10 Does your company conduct employee training, brainstorming, and/or simulation activities?

   Yes – an adaptive and responsive process is in place across the organization

   Somewhat - the process is informal or left up to the discretion of individual employees and their managers

   No

6. 11 Does your company participate in and capture customer-driven innovation via crowdsourcing, crowd-solving, consumer research, or social media?

   Yes – an adaptive and responsive process is in place in all of these areas

   Somewhat - we only encourage informal feedback from customers

   No

   12 Is your company's intellectual property well-protected?

   Yes - protection is in place (e.g. patent, trade mark)

   Somewhat - we plan to use speed to market and informally protect our IP later

   No

7. 13 Does your company regularly use innovation tools?

   Yes - our company has created our own adaptive and responsive customized tools (i.e., Intranet, Message Boards, etc.)

   Yes - we use formal third party vendor tools like Spigit, Innosight, etc.

   No

   14 Does your company collaborate with external partners or vendors?

   Yes – an adaptive and responsive partner collaboration process is in place

   Somewhat - we informally and occasionally seek input from outside our organization when it's deemed necessary

   No

8. 15 Does your company regularly measure and review progress, accept failure, and learn from both successes and mistakes?

   Yes - we regularly track progress, analyze results, discuss and review those results with employees, and make structured improvements based on the findings. Failure allows us to learn and grow.

   Somewhat - we track progress informally and look for ways to improve.

   No

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