One of the challenges in building an Innovation Organization is hiring and partnering with prolific inventors. Many authors have published descriptions and tools for doing so, but one of the best is the Inventor Profile developed by John Huber. His work is based on evaluating over 20,000 inventors. Evaluation criteria covered items related [...]
Another extremely valuable tool for innovation organizations to use is the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory. KAI measures style of problem solving and creativity. This tool provides insight into how people solve problems and interact whilst decision-making. Using this insight, Innovation Management leaders can improve the dynamics and cohesion of their teams. The tool shows [...]
Excerpting from that MBTI® manual, “the purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people's lives. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and [...]
There a large number of assessment tools they can be used to evaluate human performance and interests. Many innovation organizations have experimented with their use. Although all the instruments generate interesting results only a few have provided insight to senior management on how to best apply the human resources they are responsible for. [...]
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