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1. Survey Overview

This survey seeks to collect the opinions of innovation practitioners such as yourself regarding the key success factors for those in a leadership role in innovation. What helps a senior leader, charged with driving and coordinating innovation efforts in an organization, succeed? Sometimes, but not always, these individuals hold the formal title of Chief Innovation Officer.

We seek your input on the relative importance of several groups of factors: Technical Business Skills, Personal Attributes, Leadership Skills, and Job Experiences. You will find that all of the choices listed are important, but we'd like to know how you would rank them from most critical to least critical for success.

If you would like to receive a summary of the feedback, please leave us your contact details at the end of the survey. We will send you the summary after the results are in! Your individual data will not be released and no attribution to any single individual or company will be made.

Thank you for contributing your perspective to the innovation community! Questions? Contact Mike Fitzgerald at mfitzgerald@celent.com.

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* 1. In which geography does your company primarily operate?

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* 2. Which of the following best describes your industry?

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* 3. Which of the following best describes your company?

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* 4. How long would you say your firm has been actively pursuing an innovation agenda?

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* 5. Broadly speaking, innovation can fall into two general types -- Incremental, which is focused on the existing business model, and Disruptive which deals with new business models and/or building new markets. How would you characterize the allocation of effort within your organization between these two approaches?

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* 6. Technical Skills: Please place these skills in order of their contribution to success in a senior innovation leadership role by ranking from 1=most important to 8=least important as compared to all others.

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* 7. Leadership Skills: Please place these skills in order of their contribution to success in a senior innovation leadership role by ranking from 1=most important to 7=least important as compared to all others.

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* 8. Personal Attributes: Please place these attributes in order of their contribution to success in a senior innovation leadership role by ranking from 1=most important to 7=least important as compared to all others.

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* 9. Job Experience: Please place these job experiences in order of their contribution to success in a senior innovation leadership role by ranking from 1=most important to 7=least important as compared to all others.

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* 10. If you had to identify one Technical Skill, Leadership Skill, Personal Attribute, or Business Experience that has contributed the most to your success, what would that be? (Does not need to be listed in the questions above -- add your own if you prefer.)

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* 11. This survey is part of ongoing Celent research concerning innovation. Please leave your comments regarding what topics you would like to see included in future research efforts.

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* 12. If you would like to receive a summary of the survey results, please leave your email address below.

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