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Certified Innovation Professional (CInP) Questions and Answers

Question 1

_____ 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.

Options:

A.

Trend Scouting

B.

Trendcasting

C.

Trend Watching

D.

Scenario Planning

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Question 2

_____ 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.

Options:

A.

Crowdsourcing Platforms

B.

Open Innovation Brokerage Platforms

C.

Cross-Industry Lateral Innovation Panels

D.

Subject Matter Expert Platforms

Question 3

One’s particular ________ may make them more suitable for tasks in the Front End versus Mid Zone versus Back End of Innovation.

Options:

A.

dispositions and traits

B.

ethnic origins

C.

learned habits

D.

IQ

Question 4

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?

Options:

A.

An enthralling business case with a highly optimistic financial and strategic picture of the opportunity.

B.

A decent business case with a rough financial and strategic picture of the opportunity.

C.

A compelling business case with the most accurate financial and strategic picture of the opportunity.

D.

A compelling business case that tells the story of the opportunity the team wants to tell.

Question 5

As an Innovation Professional, the present and emerging market needs you identify represent what for you personally?

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Major risks you should help the organization suppress

B.

Opportunities to appear innovative to the rest of your organization

C.

Threats to your job that you must steer clear of

D.

Opportunities to define and develop new innovations

Question 6

Why do we tell stories within our businesses?

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

To influence a particular outcome.

B.

To ensure our voices have been heard.

C.

Because it gives us a creative outlet.

D.

Because it allows us to change the world.

Question 7

Businesses that encourage ________ often realize breakthrough innovations they never would have otherwise, sometimes resulting in a significant positive financial impact.

Options:

A.

Intrapreneurship

B.

conformance to their innovation strategies

C.

spin-out ventures

D.

blue-sky dreaming

Question 8

In conducting various business experiments, the faster and sooner an innovation tried can fail, the faster and sooner the business can do what?

Options:

A.

Cancel that project and move on to a different Innovation Project with a higher chance of success.

B.

Rush the new innovation to market to prove that the original experiment results were wrong.

C.

Kill the project and terminate the team working on it.

D.

Kick off an iterative investigation into why it failed and how to make it work, at whatever cost.

Question 9

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

convince the business to move forward with it anyway

B.

justify why they pursued the concept in the first place

C.

force it to fail early on, rather than at the Eleventh Hour

D.

eventually get it to work

Question 10

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Reinforce, redirect, or kill

B.

Reimagine, renew, or accelerate

C.

Remove, restore, or monitor

D.

Reinstate, refocus, or ignore

Question 11

To be productive, an Innovation Management System must have an effective Assimilation Process. That process will involve three activities, namely ____.

Options:

A.

challenging, accumulating, and aggregating

B.

provoking, picking, and clustering

C.

mocking, choosing, and lumping

D.

asking, gathering, and sorting

Question 12

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

An accurate Gantt Chart

B.

A project post-mortem

C.

Pass the final decision gate

D.

A highly detailed project plan with several layers of approvals

Question 13

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Select the most technologically-exciting models to move forward with

B.

Select new models to move forward with that will ensure they are as good as their competitors

C.

Select the most promising models to move forward with

D.

Eliminate all but the most certain-to-be-approved models

Question 14

As a Program Leader, you would be charged primarily with what?

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Helping to drive the business ' Innovation Program.

B.

Helping the business apply Design Methods to its challenges.

C.

Setting the business ' Innovation Strategy.

D.

Leading individual Innovation Projects for the business.

Question 15

________________ are prototypes intended to convey the appearance of a particular artifact, even though they may not have the functionality of said artifact.

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Looks-Like Prototypes

B.

Works-Like Prototypes

C.

Feels-Like Prototypes

D.

Sounds-Like Prototypes

Question 16

Stage 4 of the GIMI Innovation Management System is called ____ , and defines the business ' ____.

Options:

A.

Structure / Innovation Framework

B.

Initiation / Innovation Pipeline

C.

Selection / Innovation Funnel

D.

Capture / Innovation Dragnet

Question 17

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.

Options:

A.

A project post-mortem.

B.

An accurate Gantt Chart.

C.

A highly detailed project plan with several layers of approvals.

D.

Pass the final decision gate.

Question 18

The point of the Mid Zone of Innovation is to increase a business’ what?

Options:

A.

Chances of commercial success with a new innovation.

B.

Overall profit margin on a new innovation.

C.

Overall brand impact with a new innovation.

D.

Chances of executing a new technology correctly.

Question 19

A key use of research in Needfinding work is for market segmentation, where an overall population of prospective customers are segmented according to what?

Options:

A.

The particular outcome each segment seeks.

B.

Their tastes - what they like and dislike.

C.

Various demographic factors.

D.

Their lifestyles.

Question 20

_____ 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.

Options:

A.

Porter’s 5 Forces

B.

Scenario Planning

C.

Strategic Planning

D.

Trendcasting

Question 21

Stage 3 of the GInI InMS is focused on evaluating and selecting new ideas for conversion into Innovation Projects.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Capturing and accumulating new ideas

B.

Focusing the organization’s ideation efforts

C.

Evaluating and selecting new ideas for conversion into Innovation Projects

D.

Helping the organization feel innovative

Question 22

Success with _____ in an organization usually comes down to one thing — its ability to drive and sustain engagement in its enterprise innovation program.

Options:

A.

top-down innovation

B.

operational excellence

C.

creating a culture of innovation

D.

bottom-up, participatory innovation

Question 23

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.

Options:

A.

manufactured, assembled, inspected, and approved

B.

made, advertised, listed, and shipped

C.

produced, marketed, sold, and distributed

D.

sponsored, promoted, endorsed, and otherwise marketed

Question 24

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?

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Resource allocation to ensure adequate funding and staffing

B.

Cross-functional collaboration to reduce silos and accelerate decision-making

C.

Rapid prototyping to test ideas quickly and refine them iteratively

D.

Executive sponsorship to secure top-down support and remove roadblocks

Question 25

_____ 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.

Options:

A.

Intrapreneurs

B.

Dreamers

C.

Mavericks

D.

Rebels

Question 26

In the fourth major step of the Design Thinking process, the activity associated with " Ideate " is what?

Options:

A.

Testing solution prototypes.

B.

Developing hypotheses.

C.

Prototyping solutions.

D.

Ideating / brainstorming solutions.

Question 27

Context in the GIMI Breakthrough Innovation Method (the first step) gives a team ____ toward a particular outcome.

Options:

A.

A clear center point to focus on and boundaries in which to channel their efforts.

B.

A clear sense of purpose to drive toward, and no boundaries to worry about – so that they achieve maximum creativity.

C.

An inner goal to concentrate on and an outer bounds to stay clear of.

D.

A head start in coming up with breakthrough solutions.

Question 28

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

hypothesis

B.

need

C.

idea

D.

question

Question 29

In the fourth major step of the Design Thinking process, the activity associated with " Test " is testing solution prototypes.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Building solution prototypes

B.

Ideating / brainstorming solutions

C.

Testing hypotheses

D.

Testing solution prototypes

Question 30

A well-developed Opportunity Analysis will uncover for a business both unmet and unarticulated opportunities.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Tangible and intangible opportunities

B.

Good opportunities and bad opportunities

C.

Currently untapped opportunities and future potential opportunities

D.

Unmet and unarticulated opportunities

Question 31

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Adding new features to the offering

B.

Hyping a new technology

C.

Initiating research and development into a new technology

D.

Using a new technology

Question 32

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

User Experience Prototypes

B.

Looks-Like Prototypes

C.

Wizard of Oz Prototypes

D.

Works-Like Prototypes

Question 33

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.

Options:

A.

production process / plan

B.

design / define

C.

pilot / lead

D.

research / guide

Question 34

Breakthrough Innovation is characterized by completely new offerings within existing categories that substantially raise the bar on the value or experience delivered.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Substantially increase the brand value associated with them

B.

Substantially raise the bar on the level of competitiveness they offer

C.

Substantially lowers the cost of doing business

D.

Substantially raise the bar on the value or experience delivered

Question 35

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? "

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

B.

Customer they care about

C.

Problem worth solving

D.

Problem behind a problem

Question 36

Design Thinking forces us to " think like a designer " in that it has us constantly in search of better insights.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

More creative ideas

B.

Design solutions

C.

Better insights

D.

New patterns

Question 37

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?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Boundaries.

B.

Scope, depth and Impact.

C.

Goals.

D.

Size, shape, and speed.

Question 38

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.

Options:

A.

how cool the technology looks and how well it will impress their customers

B.

whether or not they think their competitors will ever use this technology

C.

what the technology is, how it works, and how it has been used to date

D.

the least expensive way to adopt the technology

Question 39

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Engage in further ideation and design work

B.

Engage in crowdsourcing to uncover external insights

C.

Engage in further study of the business’ capabilities

D.

Engage in further exploration and discovery work

Question 40

____ people make for good Innovation Team members because they love trying out new business ideas.

Options:

A.

Reckless

B.

Highly entrepreneurial

C.

Power-hungry

D.

Inherently brilliant

Question 41

Challenging, as part of the Assimilation Process, means issuing a specific ________ so as to drive highly focused ideation of new opportunities for the business.

Options:

A.

Innovation Statement

B.

Innovation Challenge

C.

Innovation Plan

D.

Innovation Vision

Question 42

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Component manufacture, sub-assembly manufacture, and final assembly production

B.

Manufacture, assembly, supply-chain, and quality assurance

C.

Manufacture, distribution, sales, and marketing

D.

Production, distribution, quality, and sales

Question 43

___________ 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.

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Build to Empathize

B.

Build to Learn

C.

Build to Think

D.

Build to Clarify

Question 44

If token rewards are handed out rather than commensurate rewards, it will actually do more harm than good, because it will do what?

Options:

A.

Embitter the organization toward the program.

B.

Cause too many new ideas to be submitted.

C.

Cause people to stop thinking.

D.

Leave projects unfinished.

Question 45

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?

Options:

A.

How many new projects get initiated each period.

B.

How many new launches the business must complete in each period.

C.

How many new projects must get killed each period.

D.

How many new projects will have to sit waiting their turn in queue.

Question 46

Package Innovation is the use of a new package design to create perceived new value and appeal to certain consumer preferences.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Create no net new value but appeal to certain consumer vanity

B.

Create the perception of a totally new product

C.

Create perceived new value and appeal to certain consumer preferences

D.

Create real new value and drive consumer tastes

Question 47

Design Research allows us to deliver new innovations that are in harmony with what?

Options:

A.

Both people’s internal physiology and their psychiatric abnormalities.

B.

People’s most demanding expectations.

C.

Both people’s physical bodies and their psychological capabilities.

D.

People’s hopes, dreams, and aspirations.

Question 48

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?

Options:

A.

integrating themselves procedurally

B.

all working independently

C.

tolerating one another

D.

gelling as a creative force

Question 49

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?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

What the business executives think of the final offering.

B.

What the market response will be prior to going full-scale with the offering.

C.

Whether or not the new innovation will exceed the profit targets set for it.

D.

Whether or not the new innovation will get lots of media buzz.

Question 50

" 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? "

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

A Dummy ' s Mind, or " Think Like a Machine " .

B.

A Dreamer ' s Mind, or " Think Like a Free Spirit " .

C.

A Starter ' s Mind, or " Think Like a Rookie " .

D.

A Beginner ' s Mind, or " Think Like a 4 Year Old " .

Question 51

_____________ people make for good Innovation Team members because they love to constantly experience new people, places, and things.

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Very secure

B.

Lonely

C.

Inherently brilliant

D.

Highly experiential

Question 52

The fourth major step of the Design Thinking process is called what?

Options:

A.

Value Creation

B.

Value Definition

C.

Problem Exploration

D.

Problem Clarity

Question 53

Incentives are used for what purpose?

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

To pressure and coerce people into engaging in the innovation program.

B.

To encourage people to engage in the innovation program in the first place.

C.

To force people to engage in the innovation program even if they do not want to.

D.

To reward people for having engaged in the innovation program.

Question 54

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Their analytical abilities

B.

Their imagination

C.

Connecting the dots

D.

Their creativity

Question 55

________ 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.

Options:

A.

Build to Iterate

B.

Build to Learn

C.

Build to Collaborate

D.

Build to Communicate

Question 56

" 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? "

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

What the conflict in the story is.

B.

Who the character is.

C.

What the transformation in the story is.

D.

Where the story takes place.

Question 57

For projects developing services in the Back End, the first thing the Operations team will do is ensure training materials are developed and then _____.

Options:

A.

interview each deliverer to ensure they are qualified for delivering the new service

B.

send managers into the field to give deliverers an inspiring talk about how important the new service is

C.

send trainers into the field to train the deliverers

D.

go live with the new service

Question 58

Good Innovation Teams - those populated with the right types of individuals - should be given what in their work?

Options:

A.

A strict, well-defined mandate with predefined plans.

B.

Detailed instructions and clear guidance.

C.

Latitude and autonomy.

D.

Lots of opportunities to play and have fun.

Question 59

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.

Options:

A.

quantitative / qualitative

B.

objective / subjective

C.

analytical / empirical

D.

hard / soft

Question 60

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 _____.

Options:

A.

formulate a compelling future scenario around it

B.

design an exciting new business model for it

C.

build a compelling business case for it

D.

tell a compelling story about it

Question 61

In a given Innovation Project, the motivations that each stakeholder brings to the effort are known colloquially as what?

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Their WDALYIC.

B.

Their WILCO.

C.

Their WIIFM.

D.

Their WAEF.

Question 62

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 ______.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

rank them for later consideration.

B.

report those results to all of the affected stakeholders in the business.

C.

decide whether or not to continue investing in Innovation.

D.

select the most promising ones.

Question 63

The starting point for producing relevant innovations is ____ about problems, not ____ about solutions.

Options:

A.

insights / insights

B.

questions / answers

C.

hypotheses / ideas

D.

theories / thoughts

Question 64

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.

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

quantitative market research

B.

design research

C.

qualitative market research

D.

user research

Question 65

In a good Innovation Team, all of the members will have what?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

A desire to have lots of fun.

B.

A willingness to go to work each day and do their job.

C.

A clear sense of their own priorities.

D.

Skin in the game - a commitment to the team ' s purpose.

Question 66

As an innovation professional, you encounter opportunities to identify what?

Options:

A.

The fastest growing business ventures in the world.

B.

Present and emerging market needs.

C.

Ways to save your business a lot of money.

D.

The most exciting new technologies available.

Question 67

Innovation Managers serve as the business ' ____ in driving their innovation program.

Options:

A.

only real hope

B.

first line of leadership

C.

point of accountability

D.

second-tier fallback

Question 68

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Ideation Bundles

B.

Imagination Care Packages

C.

Innovation Kits

D.

Creativity Starter Packs

Question 69

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

anyone, working anywhere

B.

deep deficiencies

C.

surprising new opportunities

D.

different functional groups and/or business units

Question 70

Design Thinking ask 3 fundamental questions about each proposed solution. The first of these - the Human element - asks what?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Is it acceptable to our managers?

B.

Is it viable to the business?

C.

Is it desirable to users?

D.

Is it feasible technologically?

Question 71

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Get too carried away with crazy, radical ideas

B.

Get too far away from who the business is

C.

Revert back to the blue sky dreaming that so many of them are prone to

D.

Revert back to the obvious " safe " choices

Question 72

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.

Options:

A.

Innovation Plans

B.

Innovation Strategies

C.

Innovation Agendas

D.

Corporate Strategies

Question 73

______ 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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Intrapreneurs

B.

Rebels

C.

Dreamers

D.

Mavericks

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