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title: Innovation Capability Assessments | Centered
description: Diagnose your innovation maturity and culture. Our Innovation Assessment reveals strengths, gaps, and a clear roadmap to scale outcomes.
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- About
  
  ## Centered
  
  We empower your organization to innovate boldly. By fostering a culture of experimentation, inspiring leadership, and building high-performing teams, we ensure your business continually adapts and thrives in a changing world.
  
  
  
  ### About Us
  
  Meet the team at Centered
  
  
  
  ### [Testimonials See what our customers have to say.](https://centered.work/recommendations?hsLang=en)
- What We Do
  
  ## Working with Centered
  
  At Centered, we help your business make innovation fast, powerful, and cost-effective. 
  
  Our proven methods cut down on wasted effort and bring bold ideas to life—fast and more effectively than ever.
  
  
  
  ### [Breakthrough Lab A 3–6 month innovation accelerator that helps leaders align, test bold solutions, and launch teams to deliver results that last.](https://centered.work/breakthrough-lab-old?hsLang=en)
  
  
  
  ### [AI Ready Teams AI isn’t just a tool—it’s a force multiplier. But without the right team structure, AI won’t make your business faster or smarter. It will only amplify inefficiencies.](https://centered.work/ai-ready-teams?hsLang=en)
  
  
  
  ### Design Sprints
  
  Our Design Sprints skip the guesswork, revealing what works in just five days.
  
  
  
  ### Innovation Coaching
  
  Our tailored innovation coaching helps executives, leaders, and teams develop the mindset, skills, and strategies needed to drive innovation across all levels of your organization.
  
  
  
  ### [Assessments Our Innovation Assessments provide a comprehensive evaluation of your organization’s innovation capabilities, culture, and processes.](https://centered.work/innovation-assessments)
- Resources
  
  ## Browse Our Resources
  
  Centered has a large library of articles, podcasts, and other resources to help you boost your innovation.
  
  
  
  ### [Articles Our articles cover a variety of topics from leadership, organizational design and structure, and much more.](https://centered.work/articles?hsLang=en)
  
  
  
  ### [Breakthrough Innovation Podcast Breakthrough Innovations dives into the stories and strategies of leaders and innovators driving change. Each episode uncovers insights on leadership, overcoming challenges, and creating transformative impact across industries.](https://centered.work/breakthrough-innovation-podcast-old?hsLang=en)
  
  
  
  ### [Book - Breakthrough Innovation The Definitive Guide for Senior Leaders Driving Transformation.](https://centered.work/download-breakthrough-innovation?hsLang=en)
  
  
  
  ### [Book - The Agile Code Provides concrete case studies, base-line lean/agile approaches, and quantifiable benefits to help leaders work in more agile ways.](https://centered.work/the-agile-code?hsLang=en)
  
  
  
  ### [Case Studies Recent work and case studies where we've brought innovation to life!](https://centered.work/articles/tag/case-study?hsLang=en)

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# Innovation Assessments to Elevate Capability & Results

Innovation is the driving force behind long-term success—but most organizations don’t know their true innovation capability. A Centered **Innovation Assessment** gives you a clear, objective view of your **innovation maturity**, culture, and processes. This diagnostic evaluation highlights your strengths, pinpoints capability gaps, and delivers an actionable **innovation roadmap** to boost readiness, speed, and results.

- **Clarity:** objective **capability & maturity** baseline
- **Focus:** prioritized gaps with effort/impact
- **Speed:** test‑and‑learn practices to reduce time to value
- **Enablement:** roles, rituals, and **governance** that scale innovation

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## How Your Business Benefits...

Centered’s **Innovation Assessment** benchmarks your **innovation capability, culture, processes, and leadership**. You’ll get a clear view of your current capabilities, prioritized gaps, and a practical innovation roadmap to accelerate customer value.

 

### Clarity on Innovation Strengths and Gaps

Get a precise **innovation capability assessment** that benchmarks leadership, culture, and systems—so you know exactly where to focus.

### Tailored Roadmap for Improvement

Receive a customized **innovation maturity roadmap** aligned with your goals and industry, showing how to move from insight to measurable impact.

### **Increased Agility and Readiness**

Learn how to adopt practices that reduce time-to-experiment and increase adaptability—building true **innovation readiness** across your teams.

### Enhanced Collaboration and Culture

Strengthen cross-functional teaming and foster a culture of innovation where ideas flow, risks are embraced, and outcomes improve.

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## What is an Innovation Assessment

An Innovation Assessment is a diagnostic tool designed to evaluate how effectively your organization fosters, supports, and executes innovation. It provides insights into:

- **Leadership and Strategy**: Are innovation efforts aligned with your company’s long-term goals?
- **Culture**: Does your team feel empowered to innovate, experiment, and take risks?
- **Processes and Tools**: Are the right frameworks, resources, and tools in place to support innovation?
- **Collaboration**: How well does your organization encourage cross-functional collaboration and idea-sharing?

With our Innovation Assessment, you’ll receive a clear picture of where your organization excels and where there’s room for improvement.

## Why Does Your Business Need an Innovation Assessment?

Organizations that continuously innovate are the ones that thrive. However, it’s often hard to know whether your innovation efforts are effective or if they’re stuck in the status quo. An Innovation Assessment allows you to:

- **Identify Gaps**: Understand where your innovation efforts fall short and how to address those gaps.
- **Enhance Decision-Making**: Make informed decisions about where to invest resources for the greatest innovation impact.
- **Foster a Culture of Innovation**: Get insights into how your culture supports—or inhibits—innovation at all levels.
- **Set a Strategic Innovation Roadmap**: Build a long-term strategy for innovation that aligns with your business goals and market demands.

 Focus Areas

## What We Evaluate in an Innovation Assessment

#### Leadership and Vision

We assess how well leadership sets and communicates innovation goals, the definition of success, and how aligned the organization is with this vision.

#### Culture and Psychological Safety

We evaluate how your organization incentivizes creativity, risk-taking, and experimentation.

#### Processes and Tools

We review intake, prioritization, experimentation, governance structures within our organization.

#### Collaboration and Teamwork

We examine the level of cross-functional collaboration, hand-offs, team empowerment and the structures that enable or hinder it.

#### Customer-Centricity

We identify how your customer can play a larger role in discovery, insights, and test/learn loops.

#### Agility and Adaptability

We assess how flexible and responsive your organization is to market changes, new technologies, and emerging opportunities.

## The Innovation Assessment Process

### Step 1: Initial Consultation

We begin by discussing your organization’s innovation goals, challenges, and current practices to tailor the assessment to your needs.

### Step 2: Surveys and Interviews

We collect input from key stakeholders, team members, and leadership through surveys, interviews, and workshops to gather qualitative and quantitative data.

### Step 3: Data Analysis

Using the insights gathered, we analyze your organization’s innovation capabilities across our key areas of focus. We identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities for growth.

### Step 4: Customized Report

We provide a comprehensive report with detailed findings, recommendations, and a prioritized action plan to improve your innovation efforts.

### Step 5: Action Plan and Follow-Up

We work with you to implement the recommended changes and ensure that the insights from the assessment lead to measurable improvements. Follow-up assessments can be conducted to track progress.

 Get Started!

## Ready to Evaluate and Elevate Your Innovation Capabilities?

If you are ready to discover how innovative your organization truly is, and more importantly, how you can improve, our Innovation Assessment is the perfect starting point. Contact us today to schedule an initial consultation and take the first step toward building a more innovative future for your business.

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 FAQ

## Frequently Asked Questions about Innovation Assessments

### How do you deliver assessments?

We offer flexible assessment options to suit your organization’s needs:

- **In-Person Assessments**: Our team visits your site to conduct assessments, interviews, and workshops with key stakeholders.
- **Virtual Assessments**: We offer fully remote innovation assessments through online surveys, video interviews, and collaborative workshops, ideal for distributed teams.
- **Custom Duration**: Assessments can be conducted in a single day or over multiple days, depending on the complexity and size of your organization.

### How long does an Innovation Assessment take?

Depending on the size of your organization and the scope of the assessment, it typically takes between 2 and 6 weeks.

### Do we need to involve the entire company?

While we focus on key stakeholders and leadership, gathering input from cross-functional teams can provide valuable insights and ensure a comprehensive assessment.

### What happens after the assessment?

After the assessment, you’ll receive a detailed report outlining your innovation strengths, weaknesses, and a clear action plan. We also offer follow-up support to help implement the recommendations.

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