Use this Audit to assess the level of understanding in your organisation about which business structures and practices encourage innovation.

Use the Audit to assess, expand and release your organisation's innovating potential. 10 questionnaires examine how well your enterprise fosters innovation in the way that it is run. Each is accompanied by practical guidance and advice. This guidance offers definitions and other useful advice to help you complete your assessment. It then suggests possible changes and improvements.

Business benefits of running the audit:

• Enhance the organisation's innovating capability
• Find out where opportunities lie for increasing innovation
• Open up new areas of the business in which to apply innovation-enhancing techniques
• Embed innovation in the organisation's processes.
• Discover what the organisation needs to do separately from individuals'creativity
• Build on individuals' creativity to bring innovation to the business
• Control the forces that stifle creativity and innovation
• Exploit the multiple sources and opportunities for innovation
• Foster innovation in the organisation's culture