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75% of companies are better
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Just 25% of companies are better
Idea-to-market fit
What’s the last truly novel idea we developed that solved a “hair on fire” problem for customers?
Talent & culture
Do we have true business builders, and do we allocate our very best talent to our most ambitious innovation challenges?
Organization & ecosystems
Do we have clear roles for all the disparate elements of our broader innovation ecosystem—for example, R&D units, venturing vehicles, digital units, and external partners—to ensure that we collaborate seamlessly and realize our targets?
Performance management
Do our metrics and incentives reward both predictable, incremental progress and successful step-change innovation? Do we recognize leaders who are not only able to push new ideas but also recognize failures early in the process?
Innovation governance
Do we ensure that people and budgets are aligned with our shared innovation priorities—and promptly realigned when priorities shift—even when multiple stakeholders have a voice?
Innovation domains
Is our innovation strategy grounded in deep customer insight and foresight that help us decide what to do—and not do—and enable us to nimbly adjust to shifting opportunities? Do we focus on a limited number of innovation domains where we have a right to win?
Innovation ambition
Do we have a shared innovation purpose? Have we established an aspirational goal aligned with corporate strategy and value creation targets that rallies our best talent to invent better ways to serve customers and society?
Projects
Do we have a clear view of our unfair advantage relative to our competition, and do we actually manage to wield it?
Funnel
Is our funnel of potentially valuable projects actually funnel-shaped or is it a cylinder? Do we learn from past mistakes?
Portfolio
Do we manage our portfolio strategically, for example, to ensure balance between core and noncore, or among new products, services, and business models? Do we take nonconsensus bets that promise outsize rewards? Have we reassessed and rebalanced our priorities and our portfolio through the COVID-19 lens?
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BCG evaluates the health of a company's innovation system along the ten dimensions of our Innovation-to-Impact or i2i framework shown at left. A perfect score on each dimension is 100. And while there is still room for improvement, a score of 80 is the threshold for readiness.
How ready is your organization? Click the button below to see how companies like yours scored in this year's research.
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Organization & ecosystems
Do we have clear roles for all the disparate elements of our broader innovation ecosystem—for example, R&D units, venturing vehicles, digital units, and external partners—to ensure that we collaborate seamlessly and realize our targets?
Performance management
Do our metrics and incentives reward both predictable, incremental progress and successful step-change innovation? Do we recognize leaders who are not only able to push new ideas but also recognize failures early in the process?
Innovation governance
Do we ensure that people and budgets are aligned with our shared innovation priorities—and promptly realigned when priorities shift—even when multiple stakeholders have a voice?
Innovation domains
Is our innovation strategy grounded in deep customer insight and foresight that help us decide what to do—and not do—and enable us to nimbly adjust to shifting opportunities? Do we focus on a limited number of innovation domains where we have a right to win?
Innovation ambition
Do we have a shared innovation purpose? Have we established an aspirational goal aligned with corporate strategy and value creation targets that rallies our best talent to invent better ways to serve customers and society?
Projects
Do we have a clear view of our unfair advantage relative to our competition, and do we actually manage to wield it?
Funnel
Is our funnel of potentially valuable projects actually funnel-shaped or is it a cylinder? Do we learn from past mistakes?
Portfolio
Do we manage our portfolio strategically, for example, to ensure balance between core and noncore, or among new products, services, and business models? Do we take nonconsensus bets that promise outsize rewards? Have we reassessed and rebalanced our priorities and our portfolio through the COVID-19 lens?
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What’s the last truly novel idea we developed that solved a “hair on fire” problem for customers?
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Do we have true business builders, and do we allocate our very best talent to our most ambitious innovation challenges?
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