Innovation is How You Stay Ahead

Innovation is essential, but it often falls short of its promise.
Many organizations struggle to connect innovation with real business priorities. Ideas are generated across departments but rarely evaluated or implemented in a structured way.
Without clear ownership, measurable metrics, and effective collaboration, innovation efforts lose momentum.

A Radical New Way to Make Innovation Work

Digitopia’s Innovation Maturity Index (IMI) is designed for a world where speed, uniqueness, and transformation are essential to success.

It turns innovation from scattered efforts into a structured, strategic advantage by measuring maturity across six essential dimensions:
Velocity → How fast can your organization generate, test, and scale impactful ideas?
Endurance → How consistently do your systems, teams, and culture support long-term innovation?

IMI gives you a 360° view of your organization’s innovation capability—simple enough for executives to understand, robust enough to guide innovation leaders in taking meaningful action.

Shape a Smarter Innovation Strategy

IMI doesn’t just measure. It guides real progress. Get tailored next steps aligned with your strategic goals, available resources, and transformation priorities.

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Assess Innovation Readiness

Evaluate maturity across six key dimensions to uncover both hidden strengths and barriers to innovation.

Identify Gaps and Friction Points

Pinpoint capability and alignment gaps that slow down innovation or disconnect it from business outcomes.

Benchmark Performance

Compare your scores with global peers and industry best practices to understand where you stand—and how far you can go.

Prioritize with Clarity

Focus on the most impactful actions by balancing quick wins with strategic projects that support sustainable innovation.

Align with Strategy and Vision

Ensure your innovation efforts reinforce your broader transformation agenda and support long-term growth.

Strengthen for the Future

Build an innovation system that scales with your organization—resilient, adaptable, and ready for what’s next.

How the Innovation Maturity Index Works

The Index balances speed with stability, helping you build a function that delivers today and is ready for tomorrow.

  • Assess whether your teams have the right skills, tools, and funding to deliver innovation at scale.
  • Identify bottlenecks in resource allocation and eliminate gaps across departments.
  • Build consistent capability pipelines by aligning innovation with talent and infrastructure planning.
  • Evaluate leadership support and how it shapes an innovation-friendly environment.
  • Foster a mindset that values experimentation, learning, and calculated risk-taking.
  • Recognize and reward contributions to innovation to sustain motivation and engagement.
  • Track innovation outcomes using measurable KPIs linked to business goals.
  • Use analytics to assess time-to-value, idea throughput, and ROI of innovation.
  • Improve decision-making by integrating innovation data into executive dashboards.
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  • Examine whether your innovation strategy is aligned with the company’s long-term goals.
  • Clarify governance structures that guide innovation across departments.
  • Ensure innovation vision is communicated clearly to align teams and leadership.
  • Capture ideas from across the organization using structured and transparent channels.
  • Evaluate, prioritize, and develop ideas with clear ownership and criteria.
  • Turn ideas into tangible outcomes with streamlined execution processes.
  • Strengthen partnerships with startups, academia, and innovation hubs.
  • Encourage cross-functional collaboration for faster problem-solving.
  • Leverage open innovation to bring external ideas into your organization.

Track Your Innovation Progress – from Idea to Impact

The Innovation Maturity Index helps organizations move from scattered initiatives to a fully embedded, strategic innovation capability. Assess where you stand across five clearly defined maturity levels:

  • 1.0 Beginner → Innovation happens ad-hoc with little structure or alignment
  • 2.0 Following → Initial steps are taken, but efforts remain inconsistent and siloed
  • 3.0 Innovative → Innovation practices are established and starting to deliver value
  • 4.0 Advanced → Innovation is integrated across teams, aligned with business goals
  • 5.0 Excellent → Innovation is a core strength—proactive, scalable, and measurable

Where do you stand today—and where do you want to be?

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Ready to Turn Innovation Into a Business Advantage?

Let’s map your maturity, set your targets, and build a roadmap to innovation excellence.