Before initiating improvement actions, you need to know the initial state.
And that’s what the MIMS assessment allows you to do: quickly identify the strengths and weaknesses of your capacity to innovate.
If you’re looking for quick-win action, action to be taken over the long term or to convince your management with factual data, don’t hesitate.
A must-have in terms of cost/time/benefit ratio!
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Evaluating or auditing an organisation's innovation management system is no easy task. You need to know what to look for, be objective and, above all, be able to make operational recommendations to improve the organisation's ability to innovate. The MIMS® Assessment is an evaluation and decision-making tool that allows detailed analysis to be carried out in a minimum of time.
MIMS® - Maturity of the Innovation Management System
MIMS® is an online assessment tool based on 35 questions in 5 levels that measures the maturity of a company’s SMI in less than an hour. Based on ISO 56002, it uses an algorithm that combines more than 2,000 parameters to generate pre-written, editable analysis reports.
MIMS® is the result of a research programme combining our experience in developing assessment tools based on multi-criteria approaches and our in-depth knowledge of ISO 56000 Series. This tool enables consultants to analyse all the practices that impact on an organisation’s ability to innovate.
The use of maturity grids enables a rapid and comprehensive analysis, regardless of the level of practice of the company being analysed and the expertise of the consultant.
Once the assesment is complete, the user has access to written reports that evaluate the performance of the company’s system according to 5 indicators: the ability to generate ideas, to implement them, to create value, to deal with uncertainty and an assessment of the degree of alignment with the standard.
The reports can be set up to include the client’s graphic chart and can be downloaded in .docx format for final customisation before delivery to the audited company.

Duration of assessment
From 30 minutes (self-assessment) to 2 hours (led by a consultant)
Reports
Instant, pre-written, design customizable and editable
Available languages
French, English, Spanish.
How assessments work
MIMS® is a decision support tool designed to improve and speed up SMI audits in companies. The automatically generated reports can be edited, providing advisers and consultants with a solid basis on which to make adjustments before submitting them to the audited company.
1. Create an account
2. Assessments
3. Preparing the progress plan
4. Editing collective reports
1. Create an account
When you set up your MIMS® subscription, and depending on your subscription, our teams will help you set up your space. Your logos and colours are incorporated into the assessment pages, and the report templates are customised to incorporate your corporate identity. We can also adjust the level of detail in the content of the various reports to suit your needs.
2. Assessments
Once your account has been set up, you can invite respondents to complete diagnoses. Depending on your choice, you can directly invite company managers to complete them in the form of a self-assessment or allocate them to your advisers and consultants, who will be responsible for completing them during a discussion with the company.
At the end of the questionnaire, the respondent can consult the evaluation report. This initial, fully automated report of around ten pages summarises the answers entered and provides an initial assessment of the system’s maturity based on 5 indicators: ability to generate ideas, to put them into practice, to give them value, to deal with uncertainty and rate of alignment with ISO 56002.
3. Preparing the progress plan
In addition to the evaluation report, you can also access a recommendation report. This more comprehensive report, which can be downloaded and edited in Word format, draws on the strength of our multi-criteria algorithm to provide a more detailed analysis and recommendations.
A summary table enables the advisor to use it to construct different improvement scenarios. In this way, MIMS® assists the advisor in drawing up a tailor-made improvement plan, adapted to the company’s needs and aligned with the support services offered by its organisation.
4. Editing collective reports
Depending on your subscription, MIMS® can also be used to carry out cross-analyses within a panel of respondents. This is particularly useful for consultancies that run networks. The visualisation of shared strengths and common limitations makes it possible to structure collective support programmes based on the real needs of network members and to encourage the sharing of good practice.
This function can also be used to compare the responses of a set of respondents within the same organisation. This makes it possible to identify differences in perception or practice within an entity or between different entities within the same company.

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Option
Business support
Carrying out SMI audits can sometimes lead to the identification of needs that your organisation is not used to meeting. If you do not have the necessary expertise to meet a specific need, we can work alongside you to help your teams develop their skills.
Option
100% made-to-measure assessments
MIMS® is a 35-question framework based on ISO 56002 but, depending on your context, you may wish to customise certain questions or add others. We can use our expertise in tool development to create a 100% customised version of MIMS®.
Subscriptions
MIMS® is a subscription-based assessment tool. The various subscription formulas provide access to different levels of customisation to meet the needs of independent consultants, consultancy firms and public support structures.
STarter offer
The power of MIMS® backed by the Innovation Way brand image
990€
(Excl. Tax/year)
- Up to 25 assessments per year
- 1 of the available languages*
- 1 administrator account
- Interface in the Innovation Way colours
- Access to Recommendation reports in .pdf format
Advanced offer
The power of MIMS® for your advisors, your customers and your brand
1990€
(Excl. Tax/year)
- Up to 50 assessments per year
- 1 of the available languages*.
- 1 administrator account
- Interface in the colours of your graphic charter
- Customising report templates
- Access to evaluation and recommendation reports in .docx format
Expert" offer
The power of MIMS® and more for unlimited customisation
On request
- Unlimited number of diagnoses
- Multilingual*
- Multiple administrator accounts
- Interface in the colours of your graphic charter
- Access to assessment and recommendation reports
- Customise report templates by agency, country, etc.
- Access to evaluation and recommendation reports in .docx format
- Personalising the questionnaire
*Languages available: French, English, Spanish
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What do users think?
Advisors, consultants, innovation managers and company directors, in France or abroad, many of them have agreed to share their experiences with us. Our warmest thanks to all of them!
Thank you Innovation Way for these educational tools to help innovation players familiarise themselves with IMS concepts. Like you, we are convinced that the IMS approach can only be beneficial to innovation performance! The team appreciated Johan’s dynamism and expertise during our serious game session. On a day-to-day basis, his responsiveness to MIMS assessment is an asset for us.
Gwenaëlle – Responsable des activités Stratégie Management de l’innovation
Ayming – France
They trust us
MIMS® is a decision-making tool whose relevance is complemented by the quality of analysis of the advisers and consultants who use it. Thank you to each of them for taking up the SMI subject and combining their expertise with the power of MIMS®.