MBA 5140-8- What efforts is top management putting in place to support innovation

You will first develop a series of questions to ask during the interview. The questions should include the following questions from Davila, Epstein, and Shelton, 2013:

1. What efforts is top management putting in place to support innovation?
2. Does everybody devote part of their daily attention to having a better business model?
3. Is it clear to everybody how the company intends to innovate?
4. Does creativity or bureaucracy crowd out innovation?
5. What are the reasons, if any, for why innovation is not as effective as you want it to be?
6. How does your company leverage its internal talent and its access to external talent?
7. How do performance measures and rewards affect innovation? (p. 10).

In addition to these questions add at least 5 additional questions. Information that should be included: What are the constraints or barriers to innovation? How do you leverage various outside constituencies in innovation? Summarize the responses and present them in a report. Then develop an analysis of the responses. How do they relate to best practices and what you read? Finally develop recommendations based on the current process and best practice