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Innovation Metrics for Management

2012 Survey

Thank you for participating in the Conference Board of Canada survey of innovation metrics and management practices in Canadian industry.

The Centre for Business Innovation (CBI) is a five-year initiative to help bring about major improvements in firm-level business innovation in Canada. We define "business innovation" as a process through which economic and social value is extracted from knowledge through the generation, development, and implementation of ideas to produce new or improved strategies, capabilities, products, services, or processes. This definition covers both radical and incremental innovation.

The survey will generate new quantitative and qualitative measures of Canada’s business innovation efforts. These new metrics will enable us to comprehensively assess innovation performance. They will also provide firms with a clear basis for evaluating their own innovation-related activities and better tools to manage their innovation activities.

The CBI’s mission is to learn why Canada is not a leader in business innovation, to develop business strategies for firms and capital markets that will improve firm-level innovation, to generate evidence and track Canada’s performance, and to formulate public policies that will successfully stimulate business innovation. Positive results will help Canada become a world leader in this area, thereby boosting its competitiveness.

Findings from this survey will assist Canadian businesses to understand the potential impacts of innovative activities in all pertinent areas: from strategic business models to competitive management of their portfolios of products/services, market territories, and classes of customers; from key corporate processes to organization culture, human resources and business dynamics, and hence the optimal handling of innovative resources. The study will provide organizations with the tools for deciding on innovation priorities, for measuring innovation performance, and for deciding on corrective actions.
 
Instructions
Questions are optional and we appreciate receiving even partially completed responses.

This is a straightforward survey, with about 50 questions, most of which require  simple multiple choice responses. The survey should take approximately 40 to 45 minutes to complete.
 
You can stop, "save" and continue at a later time if necessary.

All data is kept in strict confidentiality by the Conference Board, which reports only aggregate results in its publications.

We do appreciate your commitment to business success and the creation of a more favourable environment for competitive innovative businesses in Canada.

We would also appreciate if you could pass this survey to industry colleagues involved in innovation management in other Canadian firms.


More information about  the activities of the Center for Business Innovations is available at the CBI Website.

Draws are being held to determine who, among the identified respondents, are the 5 (five)  winners of  a complimentary registration to the 2013 CBI Symposium and the 1 (one) winner of a complimentary iPad from the Conference Board of Canada.

Participants who complete the survey will receive a complimentary report on the survey findings this Fall when the analysis is complete. 

 

Table of Contents

  1. Some Definitions - (Optional reading for people concerned about the meaning of "Innovation")

  2. Company Characterization and Your Role in Innovation Management

  3. Business Competition and Innovation Pursuits

  4. Innovation Management Process

  5. Metrics for Managing Innovation

  6. Corporate Innovation Culture and External Support

  7. Interest in Participating in Focus Groups and User Case Studies



Your comments and suggestions are much appreciated.

If you have any questions or require assistance, contact Sorin Cohn 
or call Jessica Edge toll-free at 1-866-711-2262 ext 353.
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