Technology and innovation will clearly play a pivotal role in the success or failure of oil & gas firms in the future. What’s less clear, however, is where and how these kinds of technology-related breakthroughs will happen within a larger organization. Companies tend to consist of a broad range of personalities and perspectives, and it’s frequently hard to predict where the right conditions will occur that foster innovative kinds of processes.
Using the same tools that were used to compile the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Second Global Innovation Survey, we can build an innovation heat map that sheds light on the innovative capacity and perspectives within different parts of your organization. With this deeper understanding of your company and the innovation-related behaviors of its people, you’ll be able to focus training, motivational incentives, and strategies with greater precision, thereby improving the overall efficiency of your technology organization. Also, while many of the usual metrics used to manage R&D organizations are backward looking, an innovation heat map can help you to predict where future innovation-related activities are most likely to occur.
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The process for making a heat map begins with a short online survey that includes the same organizational psychology tools used in the SPE’s Second Global Innovation Survey. These responses will then be compiled and analyzed by our team to reveal where different behaviors and innovation-related conditions are located within your organization. These results can then be benchmarked against SPE respondents around the world, within professional skill pools, and between and among groups within your organization to identify innovation hot spots. The findings from the survey and the benchmarking will be summarized in a customized report that offers actionable recommendations about how, specifically, this improved insight can be used to improve the innovative outputs of your organization. If desired, the contents of the summary report can also be presented to your organization’s personnel and senior management.