• RESEARCH

    Assessing organizations’ innovation maturity across the globe

    The Innovation Index, Dell’s latest research based on responses from 6,600 business and IT leaders across the globe, assesses organizations’ innovation maturity. It is a point-in-time snapshot of how organizations are innovating despite unprecedented uncertainty, after a global pandemic and amidst rampant inflation.

    • Accelerating from idea to innovation

      In these tumultuous times, it’s never been more important to innovate—to keep up with non-stop change and battle headwinds coming from a global recession, supply chain challenges and more. We believe that any idea, incremental or revolutionary, could start a ripple effect that enhances efficiency, resilience and progress. Our study provides new insights on how to accelerate from idea to innovation outcomes faster.

    • Facing a perception gap

      Organizations need to be alert and ready to course correct, when needed. This starts with facing a perception and reality gap.

    • On the one hand,

      71

      of respondents believe their organization is innovative.

    • And yet

      57

      worry they won’t be relevant in the next 3-5 years based on current innovation culture/pipeline.

    • Measuring innovation maturity

      To measure an organization’s ability to innovate at any time, we assessed how well they align their people, process and technology. We then grouped respondents into five benchmark groups. Only 18% can be classified as “innovative” (Innovation Adopters and Innovation Leaders), while the majority underperforms across a range of innovation markers, including the lack of a clear and holistic strategy and means to move forward. Explore the global results from the Innovation Index below.

    • 2023 Global Results

      Use the chart below to compare data results between regions/countries

    • Building innovation resilience

      The study reveals that Innovation Leaders and Adopters are 2.2x more likely to accelerate their innovation during recession/ inflation/economic uncertainty, compared to the bottom two groups. They have learned how to build innovation resilience, the ability and determination to innovate through uncertainty. To develop and nurture innovation resilience, organizations need to align their people, process and technology.

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