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DREAM 1.5 for Firmenich

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Congratulations, you will soon take part in an Innovation Culture Canvas® Strategy Workshop!

This workshop offers a pragmatic and action-oriented approach for strategizing and developing your company culture. In order to tailor the workshop to your company's specific needs, we ask you to fill out this survey as a form of preparation.

Section I will focus on explaining the five pillars of innovation culture and will allow you to identify your perceived, key challenges when it comes to working on your current company culture.

Section II will focus on discovering your personal innovation talent. Everyone is innovative and unique, and the key to unlocking the innovative power of your business is to find out where each person's contribution will be most meaningful and well-valued.

It will take around 15 minutes to complete this survey (it's less than 50 questions). If you have any questions, please send us an e-mail at [email protected].

Enjoy!

Warm regards,

Business Innovation Culture
 
 
 
SECTION I: KEY CHALLENGES
 
 
What are the your key challenges in driving a culture of innovation?

In this section you will find a definition of each of the 5 pillars of Innovation Culture - Diverse Inspiration, Resilient Leadership, Experimental Space, Agile Processes and Maternal Heart (INPUT) - together with an open question. Please state your current, perceived challenges to enable us to provide you with the most valuable insights during the workshop!
 
 
 


Fueled by diversity and ample idea time, great inspiration comes from multiple sources. Open-mindedness and inclusivity allows teams to combine ideas, while harnessing their members’ unique talents, skills, and backgrounds to the highest degree.
 
 
A. What would be your key challenges as you work to develop a more 'Diverse Inspiration' within Firmenich?
   
 
 


Resilient and value-based leadership provides the message of direction and priority. Setting an example, with passion and future optimism, leaders build long-term commitment and trust, while encouraging boldness and working for delivery effectively.
 
 
B. What would be your key challenges as you work to develop a more 'Resilient Leadership' within Firmenich?
   
 
 


A creative and experimental workspace design offers a stimulating physical environment for fostering ideation and well-being. Tolerating developmental mess allows for quick proto-typing and the ability to learn from failure for optimum growth.
 
 
C. What would be your key challenges as you work to develop a more 'Experimental Workspace' within Firmenich?
   
 
 


Agile processes, idea platforms, and reward schemes trigger the quality and pace of innovation. Transparent, flexible, client- centric, and result-oriented tools set clear targets, measure progress, define success, and allow for efficient collaboration.
 
 
D. What would be your key challenges as you work to develop more 'Agile Processes' within Firmenich?
   
 
 


Building strong heartfelt connections with colleagues and customers allow employees to better engage with their work. Emphasising co-creation, team spirit, and positive pride, teams work for win-win situations by growing friendships and showing mutual care.
 
 
E. What would be your key challenges as you work to develop a more 'Maternal Heart' within Firmenich?
   
 
 
SECTION I: KEY CHALLENGES
 
What Innovative Talents do you bring to your team?

We would like to get to know you better.

In this following section, you will find 43 questions that are related to your personal innovation talent. Please fill out the questions from the perspective of your position in your daily work and choose which of the opposite statements is closest to you.

The results of the survey are most valuable if you answer all questions openly and honestly. Everyone is an innovator and thus, there are no right or wrong answers.

Example Question

Select a radio button to indicate which statement describes you best and to what degree.


avoid surprises (just like me) deal with last minute surprises (just like me)
I would rather
 
 
 
keeps my feelings hidden shows my feelings openly
1. People see me as someone who
 
 
notices the details sees the bigger picture
2. I am someone who
 
 
spending time alone meeting new people
3. I get more energized by
 
 
explores new things gets things done
4. People see me as someone who
 
 
I do not really care I care too much
5. At work, I am concerned about what others think of me
 
 
ambitious realistic
6. In general, I think my ideas are
 
 
outgoing and chatty calm and comfortable
7. My behaviour with others is
 
 
follow a planned, straight path go with the flow
8. I prefer to
 
 
 


Select a radio button to indicate which statement describes you best and to what degree.
 
 
 
new and original solutions practical and realistic solutions
9. My main thinking mode is around
 
 
people's motivations and moods facts and the overall progress
10. In meetings I am influenced by
 
 
talk things out with someone else think things through on my own
11. When solving a problem, I prefer to
 
 
to bring things to a closure to keep my options open
12. I prefer
 
 
my sense of logic my intuition
13. I tend to rely on
 
 
socializing calmness
14. I tend to get energy from
 
 
a vivid imagination a strong hold on reality
15. I would say I have
 
 
improvising last-minute planning ahead to finish on time
16. I am better at
 
 
 


Select the radio button of the statement that describes you best.
 
 
 
17. When I have a big assignment or report due...
 
I make a concrete list of all remaining actions that need to be done
 
I take as long as needed to create something great
 
I improvise to make it happen, once I feel the deadline pressure
 
I continue to work according to the overall strategic plan
 
 
 
18. I like working with people that are...
 
down to earth and have an eye for detail
 
creative and able to think beyond their scope
 
bright and good at long-term planning
 
flexible and able to improvise
 
 
 
19. My colleagues would describe me as...
 
trustworthy, reliable, realistic
 
result-oriented, strategic, clever
 
different, creative, original
 
playful, enthusiastic, adventurous
 
 
 
20. My colleagues would describe me as...
 
dependable, careful, practical
 
optimistic, passionate, fun
 
straightforward, logical, intelligent
 
open-minded, observant, intuitive
 
 
 
21. My colleagues would describe me as...
 
focused, objective, methodical
 
sensible, moral, organized
 
visionary, nurturing, expressive
 
exuberant, pleasure-seeking, sociable
 
 
 
22. In times of stress I tend to...
 
become overly protective
 
crave recognition and approval
 
become rigid and look for what's wrong
 
feel out of place and separate myself from others
 
 
 


Select a radio button to indicate which statement describes you best and to what degree.
 
 
 
brainstorming with a group working on my own
23. It is easier for me to generate ideas when I'm
 
 
engaging, personal experience unbiased, scientific evidence
24. When I want to convince others, I use
 
 
avoid surprises deal with last-minute surprises
25. I would rather
 
 
what is real the possibilities
26. I tend to focus on
 
 
private and take longer to get to know sociable and easy to get to know
27. I am more
 
 
frank and straightforward warm and apologetic
28. If I must disappoint someone at work I am usually
 
 
 


Select a radio button to indicate which statement describes you best and to what degree.
 
 
 
core values concrete action plans
29. I prefer that the management of the company emphasizes
 
 
plan and stick to the schedule be flexible and open to change
30. In most situations I prefer to
 
 
formal and professional informal and sensitive
31. At work, it is more natural for me to be
 
 
creativity and imagination practicality and feasibility
32. I value more
 
 
stay close to a few colleagues chat with everyone
33. At work I tend to
 
 
impulsively carefully
34. I tend to make decisions
 
 
 


Select the radio button of the statement that describes you best.
 
 
 
35. In planning for life...
 
Planning? I've never heard of it! I take life as it comes
 
I have a detailed strategic plan for the next five years
 
I fantasize about what I want to do, but I don't make too concrete plans
 
I have solid plans for this week and month and most of the year
 
 
 
36. I am an expert in...
 
delivering projects
 
exploring new territories
 
ideating possibilities
 
refining strategies
 
 
 
37. One of my strengths is...
 
recognizing new trends and customer needs
 
combining multiple pieces of information into a new idea
 
selecting the best ideas and fitting them into a larger vision
 
creating pragmatic and realistic plans for implementation
 
 
 
38. One of my weaknesses is that I tend to...
 
easily get bored and leave things half-done
 
take on too much work and worry about deadlines
 
overplan and make things too complicated
 
be very impatient and do not like being controlled
 
 
 
39. In my team, I make sure that...
 
we keep our promises
 
we are open to new ideas
 
we stick to the overall plan
 
we have a fun atmosphere
 
 
 


Select a radio button to indicate which statement describes you best and to what degree.
 
 



very logical more logical a bit more logical a bit more emotional more emotional very emotional
40. I tend to be:
 
 



very abstract more abstract a bit more abstract a bit more concrete more concrete very concrete
41. I tend to be:
 
 
very organised more organised a bit more organised a bit more spontaneous more spontaneous very spontaneous
42. I tend to be:
 
 
Very extrovert More extrovert A bit more extrovert A bit more introvert More introvert Very introvert
43. I tend to be:
 
 
 
 
 
44. If there was one area of your personality that you would like to work on/change, what would it be?
   
 
 
 
 
 
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