Innovation Analysis Scorecard

Innovation Analysis

	Innovations have several characteristics that affect the likelihood of their being adopted by organsiations. Research has illustrated theat the higher the innovation's score on each of these characteristics, the more successful the implementation is likely to be. The first three to be discussed here(relative advantage, compatibility, and complexity) have the most significant relationships with the adoption and implementation of technological innovations. After reading about each of the factors you can use the score card to help compare your assessments of various innovation and technical change options. It is essential, if you are the implementer of workplace innovation or technical change, that you do this analysis from the user's perspective, as well as your own. It is the users' perceptions that determine their likelihood of adoption.Because of your involvement with the changes, you will have a significantly different perspective of it from that of the eventual users. It is important that you become aware of these differences if they exist.
	Relative advantage - is it better? The degree to which an innovation is perceived as being better than that which it precedes it.
	Compatibility - Does it fit? The degree to which an innovation is consistent with existing organisational and national culture and values, past experience, and current needs.
	Complexity - Can users understand it? The degree to which an innovation is relatively difficult to understand.
	Trialability - Can I try it out? The degree to which an innovation may be experimented with on a trial basis.
	Observability - Can I see the operations and results? The degree to which the operations and results of an innovation are observable to others.
	Re-invention - Can I modify it? The degree to which an innovation is changeable or modifiable by the user(s) in the process of its adoption and implementation.