Measure What Matters for Innovation

Our research-validated assessments reveal individual thinking styles and organizational climate. We use them as standalone products to address specific challenges, or as part of our comprehensive services to develop innovation capacity within your organization

why assessment matters

You Can't Improve What you don't understand

Sustained innovation depends on conditions that are rarely visible without measurement: how people prefer to approach problems, how they experience the work environment, and whether those two things are aligned with what you're asking them to accomplish.

Most organizations try to build innovation capacity without this picture. They redesign processes without understanding how people think, launch culture initiatives without measuring what the culture actually is. Often confusing climate and culture, addressing the wrong problem. They put diverse thinkers in a room without a shared vocabulary for working across their differences.

Assessments change that. They make the invisible factors visible and give everyone a common language for what they find.

Four Assessment Tools

Different Lenses on Innovation Capacity

We use four research-validated assessments, each measuring different aspects of innovation capability. They're not redundant. They're complementary lenses revealing different dimensions of how innovation happens in your organization.

VIEW Assessment

Understand Problem-Solving Style Preferences

We all have preferences for how we view and facilitate change, process our thinking, and make decisions and trade-offs. The most effective and innovative teams are those who understand, engage and actively get the best from their diverse preferences.

Based on the observation of real teams solving real problems, and backed by over 40 years of research, VIEW will help your team leverage different preferences, play to natural strengths, and flex to business needs. VIEW takes just 10 minutes to complete. The insights are powerful, practical, and immediately applicable.

  • BEST FOR
    Understanding Individual Preferences and Team Composition
  • TIME
    15 minutes | 36 items
  • AVAILABILITY
    Individual or Group

KAI Assessment

Kirton Adaptation-Innovation Inventory

Discover Creative Style on the Adaptor-Innovator Continuum

KAI assesses where you fall on the adaptor-innovator spectrum. Adaptors prefer working within existing systems to improve them. Innovators prefer challenging paradigms and creating new structures. Neither is better. Both are essential. Teams need both working together.

  • BEST FOR
    Understanding Creative Style and Team Diversity
  • TIME
    10 minutes | 32 items
  • AVAILABILITY
    Individual or Group

Foursight assessment

Foursight Thinking Profile

Identify Your Creative Process Preferences

FourSight reveals which phases of creative problem-solving energize you: Clarifying problems, Ideating solutions, Developing concepts, or Implementing plans. Understanding your profile helps you recognize natural contributions and potential blind spots.

  • BEST FOR
    Team Building and Energy Management
  • TIME
    15 minutes | 36 items
  • AVAILABILITY
    Individual or Group

SOQ Assessment

Situational Outlook QUestionnaire

Measure Organizational Creative Climate

Organizations often look for culture change as a way to accelerate growth. The problem is that culture is slow to change, because it’s based in deep-seated values, traditions, and beliefs. Climate, however, is the experience of daily life: those patterns of behavior in the work environment that impact how people use their creativity to drive innovation and growth.

The SOQ assesses nine patterns of behavior associated with a climate for creativity, innovation, and change.

  • BEST FOR
    Diagnosing Internal Barriers to Innovation
  • TIME
    15-20 minutes | 50 items
  • AVAILABILITY
    Any Group (One team, department, division, or the whole organization

Different Lenses on Innovation Capacity

We use four research-validated assessments, each measuring different aspects of innovation capability. Used together, they offer a powerful, complementary lens revealing different dimensions of how innovation happens in your organization.

VIEW

Understand Problem-Solving Style Preferences

We all have preferences for how we view and facilitate change, process our thinking, and make decisions and trade-offs. The most effective and innovative teams are those who understand, engage and actively get the best from their diverse preferences.

Based on the observation of real teams solving real problems, and backed by over 40 years of research, VIEW will help your team leverage different preferences, play to natural strengths, and flex to business needs. VIEW takes just 15 minutes to complete. The insights are powerful, practical, and immediately applicable.

  • BEST FOR
    Understanding Individual Preferences and Team Composition
  • TIME
    15 minutes | 36 items
  • AVAILABILITY
    Individual or Group

Kirton Adaptation-Innovation Inventory

Discover Creative Style on the Adaptor-Innovator Continuum

KAI assesses where you fall on the adaptor-innovator spectrum. Adaptors prefer working within existing systems to improve them. Innovators prefer challenging paradigms and creating new structures. Neither is better. Both are essential. Teams need both working together.

  • BEST FOR
    Understanding Creative Style and Team Diversity
  • TIME
    15 minutes | 32 items
  • AVAILABILITY
    Individual or Group

Foursight Thinking Profile

Identify Your Creative Process Preferences

FourSight reveals which phases of creative problem-solving energize you: Clarifying problems, Ideating solutions, Developing concepts, or Implementing plans. Understanding your profile helps you recognize natural contributions and potential blind spots.

  • BEST FOR
    Team Building and Energy Management
  • TIME
    15 minutes | 36 items
  • AVAILABILITY
    Individual or Group

Situational Outlook Questionnaire

Measure Organizational Creative Climate

Organizations often look for culture change as a way to accelerate growth. The problem is that culture is slow to change, because it’s based in deep-seated values, traditions, and beliefs. Climate, however, is the experience of daily life: those patterns of behavior in the work environment that impact how people use their creativity to drive innovation and growth.

The SOQ assesses nine patterns of behavior associated with a climate for creativity, innovation, and change.

  • BEST FOR
    Diagnosing Internal Barriers to Innovation
  • TIME
    15-20 minutes | 50 items
  • AVAILABILITY
    Any Group (One team, department, division, or the whole organization

Complementary Lenses, Comprehensive Insight

Assessments addressing different dimensions of innovation

Individual Factors

VIEW, KAI, and FourSight reveal thinking preferences, creative styles, and problem-solving approaches. Use them to understand yourself and compose cognitively diverse teams to maximize your ability to tackle a wide range of challenges.

Environmental Factors

The SOQ works at the group level, measuring the recurring patterns of behavior that define the day-to-day conditions individuals are operating in. There is no such thing as no climate, so the question really comes down to whether the climate is being deliberately built for innovation and change readiness.

Together

Together, the individual assessments and the SOQ turn a climate report from a diagnosis into a correlated analysis which makes intervention possible.

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