_____ involves monitoring and staying abreast of currently emerging trends so that the business can understand how the innovations it is planning fit with evolving needs.
_____ are a lighter approach to Open Innovation where engagements are curated with SMEs, thus allowing a business to gain access to a wide variety of insights and learn critical information about a particular industry, market, technology, or business process.
One’s particular ________ may make them more suitable for tasks in the Front End versus Mid Zone versus Back End of Innovation.
It is imperative that certain of the individuals involved in the Mid Zone of an innovation project have solid financial analysis skills, so that they can analyze all of the financial considerations involved and from those develop what?
As an Innovation Professional, the present and emerging market needs you identify represent what for you personally?
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Why do we tell stories within our businesses?
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Businesses that encourage ________ often realize breakthrough innovations they never would have otherwise, sometimes resulting in a significant positive financial impact.
In conducting various business experiments, the faster and sooner an innovation tried can fail, the faster and sooner the business can do what?
Having a proposed new innovation fail is acceptable so long as the Innovation Team is able—through various " stress-test " business experiments—to force it to fail early on, rather than at the Eleventh Hour, so that the team avoids unnecessarily wasting resources.
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Throughout Stage 5 of the GInI InMS, the organization will have many opportunities for feedback loops (just as in Stage 4), where their learnings help them to either reinforce, redirect, or kill each project.
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To be productive, an Innovation Management System must have an effective Assimilation Process. That process will involve three activities, namely ____.
For projects in the Mid Zone that pass the final decision gate, they will pass from the Mid Zone to the Back End, where they will enter into a completely different set of activities.
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In the fourth step of the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method—Synthesis and Capture—teams will generate as many new value models as makes sense for the situation. They can then use preliminary filtering to select the most promising models to move forward with.
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As a Program Leader, you would be charged primarily with what?
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________________ are prototypes intended to convey the appearance of a particular artifact, even though they may not have the functionality of said artifact.
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Stage 4 of the GIMI Innovation Management System is called ____ , and defines the business ' ____.
For projects in the Mid Zone that ____ , they will pass from the Mid Zone to the Back End, where they will enter into a completely different set of activities.
The point of the Mid Zone of Innovation is to increase a business’ what?
A key use of research in Needfinding work is for market segmentation, where an overall population of prospective customers are segmented according to what?
_____ is a useful tool for helping a business understand the forces at play in the world and the different ways these forces may play out and interact to shape their future reality.
Stage 3 of the GInI InMS is focused on evaluating and selecting new ideas for conversion into Innovation Projects.
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Success with _____ in an organization usually comes down to one thing — its ability to drive and sustain engagement in its enterprise innovation program.
The third step for projects in the Mid Zone is for teams to craft a winning Go-To-Market Strategy. This strategy addresses when, where, how, and by whom the offering will be _____ so that it is able to optimally connect with a particular market and that market’s need.
In the GInI Innovation Management System, the concept of " Innovation Velocity " refers to the speed at which a business can move an idea from initial conception through to market launch. What is the primary factor that Program Leaders must optimize to enhance Innovation Velocity across all phases of the innovation process?
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_____ engage in a certain amount of their own risk taking within their business to pursue a new innovation they are passionate about, even sometimes when they are not formally sanctioned.
In the fourth major step of the Design Thinking process, the activity associated with " Ideate " is what?
Context in the GIMI Breakthrough Innovation Method (the first step) gives a team ____ toward a particular outcome.
All good innovations start their life as a hypothesis and therefore teams—if they are to explore a particular situation in their search for a new innovation opportunity—can thus engage in hypothesis forming.
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In the fourth major step of the Design Thinking process, the activity associated with " Test " is testing solution prototypes.
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A well-developed Opportunity Analysis will uncover for a business both unmet and unarticulated opportunities.
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Technology Innovation is any new innovation that delivers greater value and/or a better customer experience as a direct consequence of using a new technology.
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Wizard of Oz Prototypes are prototypes used to emulate the automated functionality of an artifact even though said functionality happens as a result of a person making it happen manually behind the scenes.
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In driving their teams toward final confirmation and proof of a new innovation concept, the Project Leader must know what the most appropriate type of ________ is, and how to properly ________ these.
Breakthrough Innovation is characterized by completely new offerings within existing categories that substantially raise the bar on the value or experience delivered.
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After having a number of teams conduct further validation and scoping on their respective projects in the Front End, a business is then able to ask of each one " Is it a problem worth solving? "
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Design Thinking forces us to " think like a designer " in that it has us constantly in search of better insights.
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A business ' Innovation Strategy will - in Stage 1 of the GInI InMS - guide the business ' investment priorities for its Innovation Portfolio, thus largely determining the portfolio ' s what?
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In Technology Scouting, scouts must focus on ______, and from that conceive new ways their business can use the technology, which can be a departure from how it has been used elsewhere in the past.
The second step for projects in the Front End is for the team to engage in further exploration and discovery work. This is aimed at gaining additional insights into both the problem space and the solution space they are dealing with.
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____ people make for good Innovation Team members because they love trying out new business ideas.
Challenging, as part of the Assimilation Process, means issuing a specific ________ so as to drive highly focused ideation of new opportunities for the business.
For projects developing products in the Back End, the Operations team will plan out all of the necessary details for manufacture, assembly, supply-chain, and quality assurance.
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___________ is one of the 12 Purposes of Prototyping in which we build prototypes to engage the mind ' s " analysis and synthesis engine " , since having something to turn over in one ' s hands helps the mind to better understand a concept or at least keep the mind exploring for more new ideas.
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If token rewards are handed out rather than commensurate rewards, it will actually do more harm than good, because it will do what?
Coming out of the Level 2 EandS Process, the overall size of a business’ Pipeline, including resources, capacities, growth demands, and the relative scope of each project, will dictate what?
Package Innovation is the use of a new package design to create perceived new value and appeal to certain consumer preferences.
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Design Research allows us to deliver new innovations that are in harmony with what?
Even though a Core Innovation Team will be made up of a diverse set of personalities – dreamers, designers, strategists, doers, and the occasional maverick – these people have to be capable of what if they are to be productive at fulfilling their charter?
By running a Pilot in Stage 5 of the GInI InMS, an organization is better able to manage its risks, as doing so provides a safe, cost-effective approach to learning what?
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" Question Storming benefits from people fully abandoning their preconceived understanding of a situation and starting over at the beginning with some very basic, fundamental questions. This is known as what? "
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_____________ people make for good Innovation Team members because they love to constantly experience new people, places, and things.
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The fourth major step of the Design Thinking process is called what?
Incentives are used for what purpose?
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Innovation Professionals are called upon to use their creativity in order to resourcefully arrange things in new ways to arrive at some desired new end point.
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________ is one of the 12 Purposes of Prototyping in which we build quick and dirty/frugal prototypes to test out our ideas quickly and cost-effectively so that we can learn what does not work and why, and then repeat the process until satisfied.
" In constructing their story, an Innovation Team can draw directly from their Empathy Map, in which case the customer ' s unmet needs (pains and gains) defines what? "
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For projects developing services in the Back End, the first thing the Operations team will do is ensure training materials are developed and then _____.
Good Innovation Teams - those populated with the right types of individuals - should be given what in their work?
A very broad array of different types of Market Research exist. Most of these can be classified into one of two groups: either ________ or ________ research.
In the fifth step of the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method - Incubation and Selection - teams undertake additional research studies and analyses, with the objective of collecting additional information and building a structure around which to refine a concept and thereby _____.
In a given Innovation Project, the motivations that each stakeholder brings to the effort are known colloquially as what?
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After having a number of teams conduct further validation and scoping on their respective projects in the Front End, a preliminary business can compare the different opportunities against one another and then ______.
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The starting point for producing relevant innovations is ____ about problems, not ____ about solutions.
The aim of ________________ is to collect feedback from a large number of respondents in order to reveal specific patterns in their responses that yield new insights for researchers.
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In a good Innovation Team, all of the members will have what?
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As an innovation professional, you encounter opportunities to identify what?
Innovation Managers serve as the business ' ____ in driving their innovation program.
Innovation Kits are an activity where people from across the organization are provided with carefully-designed starter kits containing certain paraphernalia intended to serve as thought-starters, which the individuals are then challenged to use to spark innovative new thinking around a particular business challenge, and to consider how the different pieces and parts can be recombined in novel ways to generate innovative new opportunities for the business, all of which end up being fodder for the Innovation Funnel.
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One of the Program Leader ' s jobs in relation to Engagement is to select and deploy the engagement mechanisms most suited to special needs that arise from different functional groups and/or business units in the business.
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Design Thinking ask 3 fundamental questions about each proposed solution. The first of these - the Human element - asks what?
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Coming out of a brainstorming session, a group should carry forward a wide-ranging selection of ideas for subsequent evaluation and potential prototyping. This ensures they preserve the full breadth of concepts they generated and do not revert back to the obvious " safe " choices.
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In Stage 1 of the GInI InMS, Innovation Managers would apply the business’ _____ to focus the inputs coming into the System on certain core objectives.
______ engage in a certain amount of their own risk taking within their business to pursue a new innovation they are passionate about, even sometimes when they are not formally sanctioned.
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