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Innovation-hungry cultures we can all learn from

September 17, 2012 Blog 1 min read

As a firm, Plante Moran has always been interested in innovation. What is it, really? What do we mean when we talk about it? How can we measure and encourage it within our organizations?

A year ago, we set out to answer these questions, resulting in our inaugural Innovation Quotient (IQ) survey. I’m excited to report that Plante Moran has recently released the results of its second IQ survey, which does something I think is pretty neat: it transforms the results of more than 550 surveyed innovators into a valuable self-improvement guide for the leaders of businesses, not-for-profits, and public sector organizations.

The survey identifies four tiers of innovators—accidental innovators, disciplined innovators, top innovators, and superstar innovators—that demonstrate how organization can move up the innovation ladder and improve their financial results by adopting the proven practices of innovation-driven companies.

Companies like Steelcase in Grand Rapids and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Greater Illinois Regional Chapter), who talk about using innovation to fulfill the missions of their organizations. Or two Indiana bank presidents who discuss the importance of sharing ideas and the need for better products from their software vendors. To read their stories and view the complete survey results, click here.

Speaking of innovation, I have some great news to share about Plante Moran. We were recently appointed to InformationWeek 500’s List of “Top Technology Innovators Across America” for our work on our client collaboration centers. We launched this solution last year to (1) provide a more efficient, dynamic way to share documents with clients and (2) mitigate the security risks inherent in exchanging personal, confidential documents. Companies on the list epitomize unconventional approaches to using IT in business. We’re very proud to be recognized as an IT innovator.

Be sure to check out our IQ survey. Although this round of results is obviously closed, we’re keeping the survey open year round. Feel free to take it here. It only takes about 15 minutes. Your information will be used for benchmarking purposes only.

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