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Free Innovation Maturity Assessment Template

Score idea sourcing, portfolio funding, experiment speed, decision gates and culture to see whether your innovation system can deliver.

~10 min
5 weighted dimensions
AI PDF Report
AI Consultant
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Score idea sourcing, portfolio funding, experiment speed, decision gates and culture to see whether your innovation system can deliver.

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About this template

Companies say they value innovation while running systems that quietly prevent it: ideas without routes, pilots without gates, culture without air cover. This assessment scores the five components of an operating innovation system, and the AI report names which component silently kills the others — usually gates or culture, not ideas. For leaders who want repetition, not another hackathon.

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Template at a Glance

TemplateInnovation Maturity Assessment
CategoryBusiness & Strategy
FormatWeighted 1–5 assessment with personalized AI PDF report
Time to completeAbout 10 minutes per response
What you getA personalized AI report (printable PDF) per response, plus the raw answers
Best forInnovation leads · Executives · Strategy leads
CostFree to copy and customize on FormLM
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What This Assessment Measures

Five dimensions, scored 1–5 and weighted into one result.

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Live Preview

Sample form and AI report preview — fill it in to see live scoring and the report.

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Sample AI report with scoring visuals and recommendations, printable as a PDF.
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What's Included

Everything you need to run this template.

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Five weighted dimensions

Idea sourcing, Portfolio funding, Experiment speed, Decision gates, Culture & air cover — each scored 1–5.

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Weighted composite score

A defensible overall view that keeps dimensions separate.

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Personalized AI PDF report

The weakest dimension, what it caps, and a prioritized fix list.

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QR into an AI consultant chat

Every report links a chat trained on this topic for follow-ups.

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How It Works

From copy to deliverable in four steps.

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Use This Template

Copy the assessment, scoring and report settings into your FormLM workspace — free.

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Customize

Adjust dimensions and weights to match how your business runs.

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Share and collect

Send the link or QR; each response is scored automatically.

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Review and act

Open the personalized AI PDF report and share it with stakeholders.

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Who Is This For

Pick your role — see how it fits your workflow.

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Innovation leads

Diagnose the system, not the ideas.

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Executives

Fund machinery over events.

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Strategy leads

A baseline for the growth plan.

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Key Features

What makes this template work as a professional deliverable.

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Sample Questions Inside

A preview of real questions — the full version adds scoring and a personalized report per respondent.

  1. Strong ideas have a clear, low-risk route to be heard (1–5)
  2. Early experiments get funded without committee pain (1–5)
  3. A new test can run to a real signal in weeks (1–5)
  4. Scale-or-kill decisions follow stated evidence gates (1–5)
  5. A failed public experiment is treated as learning (1–5)
  6. Which good idea died in your last 12 months? (open)
  7. What gate or fear stopped it? (open)
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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the five innovation system components?
Idea sourcing, portfolio funding, experimentation speed, decision gates and protective culture — innovation as an operating system, scored on repeatability.
Can SMEs use this without a lab or budget?
Yes — most items ask about routes and rhythms, not spend; small companies often score higher on speed and lower on gates.
Does the AI report judge our ideas?
No — it judges the machinery: which component most caps the flow of good bets into tested bets.
How often should innovation maturity be scored?
Annually, or when leadership changes — innovation systems are usually the first casualty of a risk-off turn.
What is the most common bottleneck?
Decision gates that never kill and culture that punishes visible failure; the report gives the minimum policy change for each.
Is it free to use?
Yes. Click Use This Template to copy the form, scoring and report configuration into your FormLM workspace for free, then customize and share it.
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