This document introduces innovation sprints and provides a readiness scorecard to assess an organization's preparedness. Innovation sprints apply design thinking techniques within an agile development process to increase both innovation and speed. The scorecard identifies areas to address before implementing innovation sprints and enables faster adoption of best practices. It accelerates introduction of innovation sprints and aligns executives by assessing categories like design thinking and agile expertise, change management maturity, customer understanding, and investment in implementation. An example shows a filled-out scorecard with means and variances for each category from a team's assessments.