
So, you can see the numbers and make nice charts :), but also see what’s happening with innovation climate in your organisation and see are you on the same way like half a year ago or not. As, I’m speaking from the role of inno-manager I must admit that metrics are the most important data which alarms me if there is no enough activities in some part of organisation.
I spend sometimes hours and hours over statistics, just to make sure that there are no forgotten ideas or that every idea has a decision. There are no room for leaving idea ‘open’ if there is no real argument for that.
Back to topic – it’s important to have Innovation Metrics with clear picture what happened in the last period(quarter of half of year) and to have it on time.