Free innovation assessment
Discover your approach to innovation.
How do you approach problems and discover new ideas? This short self-assessment helps you explore your innovation style and the discovery skills you can develop.
First, share your name and email. Then reflect on your approach to innovation.
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What you receive
See your strengths and areas for development.
See your problem-solving preferences and discovery habits together, based on your own answers.
- Your problem-solving style and innovation profile
- Scores and a radar chart for your five discovery skills
- Your strengths and development priorities
- Program suggestions for your development areas
There is more than one way to innovate.
Some people improve existing systems; others challenge familiar approaches. Strong teams need both. Understanding your approach can help you work with different styles and develop your discovery habits.
For managers, teams, and innovation leaders
- Managers and business-unit leaders
- Innovation and R&D leaders
- Strategy and transformation leaders
- Product and venture teams
- HR and Learning & Development leaders
- Those running corporate-entrepreneurship programs
Two perspectives on your approach
The first section explores your problem-solving preferences. The second looks at how often you put discovery behaviours into practice.
Your problem-solving style
Explore your preferences across three areas. No style is better than another.
Framing and Idea Generation
How you frame problems and generate options — improving what exists versus rethinking the frame entirely.
Structure and Execution
Whether you work best with plans, documentation, and clarity, or with prototypes, flexibility, and early learning.
Rules, Norms, and Authority
Whether you work within accepted rules and group norms or challenge and bypass them.
Your discovery habits
Reflect on five behaviours you can strengthen through practice.
Questioning
Asking probing questions that challenge assumptions, reframe the problem, and open new possibilities.
Observing
Noticing what others miss by watching customers, users, and employees in their real context.
Networking
Seeking diverse perspectives by deliberately reaching outsiders, experts, and weak ties.
Experimenting
Learning by trying — reducing uncertainty through prototypes, pilots, and tests.
Associating
Connecting distant ideas through analogy, pattern recognition, and cross-domain thinking.
Turn your results into a development plan
Discuss your results with us in a 30-minute briefing. Clarify your team’s needs and the skills you could focus on.
Frequently asked questions
This self-assessment supports development and team discussion; it is not a validated psychometric test. It draws on Kirton’s innovation-style research and the discovery-skills work of Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen, but is not the official KAI or Innovator’s DNA test. See the privacy notice for details on how your personal data is used.
Privacy noticeIs this the official KAI or Innovator’s DNA test?
No. It is a clearly labelled developmental tool inspired by those research traditions — it is not the official instrument and should not be interpreted as a validated psychometric test.
Does a higher score mean better?
For style, no — adaptive and innovative are both valuable; neither is superior. For discovery skills, higher does mean a stronger, learnable habit.
How long does it take?
About 8–10 minutes; two short diagnostics and a few optional questions.
Who should complete it?
Managers, team leaders, and anyone responsible for innovation. Multiple responses from one team are especially valuable.
Is this a personality test?
No. The style scan measures preferences and the discovery scan measures habits — and habits can be learned.
What happens after I complete it?
You see your result immediately, receive a summary email (with a PDF), and can book a 30-minute Innovation Briefing.
Can we use it as a team?
Yes. The results are designed for team workshops; they reveal the team’s style distribution and discovery-skill gaps.