1. Are you involved in continuous experimentation for delighting clients ?
2. Do you welcome mistakes as an essential element of a learning process (vs as an element to be eliminated) ?
3. Are your structures & processes formulated to enable and reinforce people’ s creative energies ?
4. Are your own people & clients treated as ‘human beings to relate to’ in your thinking/processes (vs as ‘Human Resources to be managed’) ?
5. Do you see your organization as a mean to meeting the needs of clients & stakeholders (vs as an end by itself)?
6. Do you work in self-organizing teams of people diverse in background and status (vs in hierarchy structures and interdependent teams)?
7. Do you adopt a ‘radical transparency’ culture in the form of systematic knowledge-sharing practices?
8. Do you plan innovation work in the form of ‘user-stories’ to delight clients (vs in the form if accomplishing certain KPIs)?
9. Do you systematically practice ‘Persuasion skills’ for effective innovation stories (vs just provide standard business reports and presentations)?
Your organization is :
– a me-too culture, for <5 ‘Yes’
– innovation-driven, 5-7 Y
– disruption-driven, 8-9 Y
