Innovation Exchange

Below are nine statements that business people consider when planning their innovation activities. Your answers will lead you to useful information and links about innovation, tailored to your business needs.

Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each one by giving each statement a score out of 10 where 1 means you strongly disagree and 10 means you strongly agree.

"To be innovative you have to bring a new product or service to market"

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"I wish I had more time to think about how we could grow and develop the business"

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"Staff make a significant contribution to improvements made in the business"

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"Developing new ideas to help the business is vital to its future success"

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"We have to come up with new ideas and ways of doing things to keep up with the competition"

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"Our staff already have the skills we need to grow and develop the business"

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"We struggle to come up with new ideas for developing the business"

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"We find implementing new ideas difficult"

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"Innovation is a process of identifying and implementing changes to any part of the business"

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