Treehouse Innovation Assessments Innovation ImpactTM Assessments
Let's chatTreehouse has partnered with Prof Jeanne Liedtka and her co-authors Karen Hold and Jessica Eldridge to develop a suite of assessment instruments that help individuals, teams and entire organizations measure, and amplify the impact they make with innovation.
Innovation Impact: Skills
(Self & Peer Assessment)
For individuals and teams wanting to identify their own current strengths and development areas and become more impactful innovators.
Used for:
- Personal and team development
- Before / After Innovation Training
- Team formation and staffing
- Conferences / team off-sites
Innovation Impact: ROI
(Organizational Outcomes Audit)
For organizations that have invested in building innovation and design capability, and now want to assess the outcomes being realized.
Used for:
- Assessing organizational performance
- Comparing practices and outcomes across departments, business units or teams
- Making data-backed decisions about where to focus further innovation investment
The Innovation Impact suite of assessments are based on over a decade of research conducted by Professor Jeanne Liedtka and her team at the University of Virginia, Darden School of business.
Their research was conducted with 1000s of professionals - engineers, marketers, accountants, scientists and all kinds of managers and executives from across sectors - to understand what it really takes to enable people from all walks of life to innovate, no matter what their field.
Innovation Impact Assessments How these assessments help individuals and organizations
Better skills
Individuals
- Understand your current strengths and development opportunities
- Get practical guidance to help you improve
- Get feedback from others to learn about your hidden strengths and blind spots
Self & Peer assessment
Better teams
Corporate Innovators & Change Makers
- Understand your team’s collective innovation profile
- Identify opportunities to improve innovation skills
- Make better informed decisions about team composition and resourcing
Self & Peer assessment
Better leaders
HR, Talent and L&D Leaders
- Understand your current strengths and development opportunities
- Identify competency gaps to prioritise the right training initiatives
- Demonstrate the impact of training and change initiatives to execs
- Identify talent recruitment needs
- Get feedback from others to learn about your hidden strengths and blind spots
Self & Peer assessment
Better organizational outcomes
Senior Execs & Decision Makers
- Understand how change-ready and adaptive your organization really is
- Understand the tangible impact that developing design competencies has on the bottom line
- Learn where future development investment is required
- Identify potential structural/systemic/leadership barriers beyond competency development
Self & Peer assessment