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Audit Reports

The report provides an assessment of company strengths and weaknesses.  It has segments on knowledge management, future readiness, technology, innovation strategy, quality, customer satisfaction and workforce innovation and includes recommendations, developed in discussion with company executives.

There are four standard Reports – Findings, Summary, Presentation and Recommendations.

The report includes benchmark and factor score charts for managers, employees and the whole organisation; scores (means and standard deviations) for all questions, sorting templates and weights, manager and employee comparisons, verification and interpretation guidelines.

WAVE™ reports are built from the statistics report by accredited consultants.

Illustrates how a pharmaceutical company is using WAVE™. Two pages plus audit summary.

Papers and presentations

Slides on the best practices in managing innovation.

Slides – steps and tools for incremental and breakthrough innovation in products and services.

A commended academic paper presented to the 2001 International Conference on Quality and Innovation Management. It describes the state of the art in the theory and practice of business innovation and the development and testing of WAVE™. It is for managers who want to understand the theory and how the model is derived.