KAI – Kirton Adaption – Innovation Inventory

Karuna is a licensed organization to apply Kirton Adaption – Innovation Inventory (KAI) test in order to analyze thinking style.

People differentiate from each other according to creativity, decision making and problem solving styles.

Groups and organizations need both adaptive and innovative thinking style to improve efficiency, solve complicated problems, change, and improve creativity.

Organizational and personal benefits of KAI Inventory that is based on creativity – problem solving and decision making:

·         Improving the contribution of team members

·         Marking strengths in problem solving and encouraging cooperation

·         Realizing and resolving the conflicts within the team

·         Realizing the creativity

·         Realizing innovative people in the organization and improving their efficiency

·         Using adaptive – innovative analysis in recruitment process to decide appropriate thinking style

·         Leading efficiently by realizing differences

·         Selecting right team members to solve complicated problems

·         Communicating generated ideas between people

Adaptation – Innovation Theory: It is developed by Dr. Michael Kirton. Dr. Kirton made personality and behavior analysis and research about management initiatives. These researches and analysis directed him to make deeper studies in openness/resistance to change, differences and managing these factors.

According to Dr. Kirton, people are creative and solves problem during a life time. This theory distinguishes the style from level of problem solving, creativity, and decision making and focuses on the style.

People can solve problems with a combination of followings.

Style –Idea generation, method usage, and interaction with the rules

Level – Competences and capacity of knowledge, experience, skill, and intelligence  

Everybody and every style can be creative. Adaptive people focus in predefined field while being creative. Innovative people discover new things by using different ways and methods.

The higher level affects creativity and success factor positively.