本文件将帮助用户理解为什么进行创新管理评估（IMA）是有益的，评估什么，如何进行IMA，从而最大限度地发挥其产生的效益，这些效益普遍适用于: -在创新活动中寻求持续成功的组织； -执行IMAs的组织； -用户和其他利益相关方（如客户、供应商、合作伙伴、资助组织、大学和公共机构）对组织有效管理创新的能力抱有信心； -通过评估，寻求通过对创新管理（IM）的共同理解来改善沟通的利益相关方； -提供即时通讯方面的培训、评估或建议； -相关标准的制定者； -对IMA相关研究感兴趣的学者。 此外，本文件旨在适用于: -所有类型的组织，无论部门、年龄、规模或国家； -所有IM方法，无论其复杂程度； -管理创新的所有方式，无论是集中还是分散； -所有创新方式，例如内部、协作、开放、用户、市场或技术驱动的创新； -所有类型的创新，如产品、服务、流程、商业模式、组织创新，从渐进式到激进式。

This document will help the user understand why it is beneficial to carry out an Innovation Management Assessment (IMA), what to assess, how to carry out the IMA, and thus maximize the resulting benefits, which are universally applicable to: — organizations seeking sustained success in their innovation activities; — organizations performing IMAs; — users and other interested parties (e.g. customers, suppliers, partners, funding organizations, universities and public authorities) seeking confidence in an organization's ability to manage innovation effectively; — interested parties seeking to improve communication through a common understanding of Innovation Management (IM), via an assessment; — providers of training, assessment, or advice in IM; — developers of related standards; — academics interested in research related to IMA. Further, this document is intended to be applicable to: — all types of organizations, regardless of sector, age, size, or country; — all approaches to IM regardless of their level of sophistication, and complexity; — all modalities of managing innovation whether centralized or decentralized; — all ways to innovate, e.g. internal, collaborative, open, user-, market- or technology-driven innovation; — all types of innovation such as product, service, process, business model, organizational innovation from incremental to radical.