Our work at =mc over the last 3 years has concentrated on helping public bodies and charities become more systematically innovative. That work suggests that the two key challenges for charities becoming more innovative is that few have a systematic process to drive it and a number have chosen inappropriate models to integrate it.

To do this we've introduced a model, based on some original Harvard research, which argues that innovation is a value adding-process chain. This chain has seven stages to ensure you move methodically from simply creativity – coming up with ideas – to genuineinnovation –implementing the ideas and raising money from them. Each stage is important and involves some key skills and competencies.

You can check how well your organisation is doing at each stage of the model by taking the =mc innovation value chain assessment quiz — below. We will email you a report showing your performance and how you compare to the average for your sector.