What Employee-Driven Innovation Is

Employee-Driven Innovation (EDI) creates the conditions for these everyday observations to translate into meaningful workplace improvements. By creating deliberate opportunities for employees to identify challenges and suggest solutions, organisations can strengthen continuous improvement while ensuring innovations remain grounded in day-to-day work realities.

What Enables Employee-Driven Innovation?

For EDI to take root, both individual mindsets and workplace conditions play an important role. Strengthening the following factors enables employees to contribute meaningfully to problem-solving, while helping organisations implement improvements that stick.

Personal factors

  • Motivation to improve work
  • Curiosity & open-mindedness
  • Clarity around their role in driving change ...

Workplace factors

  • Supportive leadership and communication
  • Recognition and feedback 
  • Employee autonomy ...

How We Make EDI Work

At SUSS, we use a lightweight instrument to identify strengths and gaps across these personal and workplace factors. The insights can help organisations understand how well current conditions support Employee-Driven Innovation and where targeted actions may be needed. Based on these findings, organisations can prioritise practical steps to strengthen participation in innovation and translate employee insights into workplace improvements that stick.

Interested in Using the EDI Diagnostic?

 

Organisations interested in understanding their innovation health can use the EDI diagnostic on a complementary basis. SUSS will work with your organisation to administer the survey to an agreed group of employees and provide an organisation-level report on the findings.

To explore how the diagnostic can be used with your organisation, please contact SUSS External Relations.

 

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Sample Questionnaire and Report

View the sample questionnaire and illustrative report to understand how the EDI diagnostic works and the type of findings your organisation may receive.

 

View Sample Questionnaire         View Sample Report

* The samples are provided for illustrative purposes only. Actual findings will be based on responses from the participating organisation's agreed employee group. The actual scope and level of analysis provided in an actual diagnostic may vary depending on the nature and agreed scope of the engagement.

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