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Innovation Maturity Evaluation

Paper Giant have identified the 48 concrete behaviours that make up mature innovation practice.

Public sector organisations are being challenged to solve a wider range of complex problems. In this changing world of work, organisations with embedded innovation capability are better placed for success.

Based on extensive research and our experience in supporting hundreds of organisations to innovate, we have created a framework that gives you a clear overview of your innovation maturity.

By understanding where your team’s innovation capability is more or less developed, you can take action and fill skills gaps.

Evaluation findings are presented in a comprehensive but easy to understand report. The report covers insights, benchmarks and how to take action.

Evaluation Framework

The framework allows us to provide an accurate assessment of your organisation’s capability across three innovation pillars: Sensing, Connecting and Acting.

  1. Sensing is about how well you understand the context of your users and the innovation ecosystem.
  2. Connecting is about how well you link people and opportunities to see what works.
  3. Acting is about how well you move from ideas to action, and your capacity to learn along the way.

The Innovation Maturity Evaluation Framework allows you to pinpoint where your organisation is performing at a level above or below what is expected.


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The framework has been developed based on our experience supporting hundreds of organisations in both the public and private sector to increase their innovation maturity.


We found the results from the audit really insightful, especially to quickly see individual thinking of our work and where we needed to focus our efforts. We particularly liked how the questions and results worked to demystify what innovation is in practice. It’s a loaded term for many and we liked how this audit broke it into tangible pieces.

Innovation Team Lead, Federal Government

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