Our benchmarking and measurement tools and processes are targeted at:

• individual companies and their complete innovation project portfolio.
• individual high value, high risk projects.
• clusters or networks of companies and independent business units in corporations .

Customers use these tools and services to perform an assessment of the AS-IS situation an track innovation results on a continual basis. The benchmarking tools can track and assess:

• Innovation ambitions and specific goals.
• Company resource spending on innovation (idea development, concept development and projects)
• Company Innovation results (project success rates, time efficiency, % of revenue from new products, ROI on investment in innovation)
• Internal work practices quality on key innovation work practice areas.

Based on self assessment from key internal people each company get a tailored innovation report card. This report presents Your results, compared to the 20% best in our 600 company innovation benchmarking database:

• Innovation results (performance)
• Economic value of improvement potential
• A map of how their work practices compare to “the 20% best” and the rest in our benchmarking database
• A to do list of improvement actions
• Recommended competencies building for the core team of responsible managers and development resources owners.
• Suggested improvement goals for 12-18 months period.

Workshops to follow up report cards can be coached by certified i-Perform consultants or by internal experts trained and certified by us to plan and perform the workshop sessions. Innovation Performance will deliver the tailored WEB-based research forms and the Innovation Report cards.

Below is an an example from one page in the report card, presenting some key innovation results for a Norwegian Municipality.