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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Build to Compare is one of the 12 Purposes of Prototyping in which we build prototypes to undertake comparative benchmarking between proposed new solutions and existing solutions, so that we can figure out how to solve our customer’s problem better.
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As an Innovation Professional, the present and emerging market needs you identify represent what for you personally?
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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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For projects in the Back End, once a pilot demonstrates the commercial viability of the offering, the effort is passed on to the next stage, where it is ramped up to full-scale capacity via various capital investments.
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In the second major step of the Design Thinking process, the activity associated with "Empathize" is what?
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Organizations should be aware that in the Evaluation process of Stage 3 of the GInI InMS, the confidence level around certain metrics can be low given how far out in time they are from the present, and thus a certain amount of subjectivity and judgment will be inherent in the process.
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Innovation is an acquirable mentality and skillset.
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Engagement is what speeds up a business' innovation program and connects it with the people who give it life.
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Incentives are used for what purpose?
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First-Level E&S Teams do two key things that are critical to driving the business' InMS. The second of these is to drive and facilitate __________ for choosing those ideas and opportunities that will ultimately be converted into new innovation projects.
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A seventh step for projects in the Front End is for teams to further validate and scope the opportunity they are pursuing - something they should be in a position to do at this point. This involves the team conducting analyses to understand where they are with their knowledge of the opportunity, including what three considerations?"
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"______ are team sprints organized to build something entirely new in a highly-compressed timeframe, producing highly useful outcomes often in record time, which in turn become inputs for the Innovation Funnel to consider carrying further."
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Stage 1 of the GInI Innovation Management System is called The Innovation Funnel.
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Program Leaders must take explicit steps using reinforcement mechanisms to drive ongoing sustained engagement in the business' innovation program.
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In order to become an effective innovator, one must embrace which of the following?
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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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The final step for projects in the Back End is to ramp up production and deliver of the offering. This completes the process of taking a new idea from concept to reality, and - because of scaling up the offering - is where the business will finally begin to do what?
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The three phases of Innovation Projects is a concept used to categorize __________ within specific phases of an innovation project.
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In the long run, what is more expensive than innovating?
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Becoming an Innovation Manager gives one a chance to make a name for themselves by ________________.
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Innovation Management is largely about two activities, namely driving engagement for bottom-up participatory innovation, and then collecting, evaluating, and selecting the ideas and opportunities that result from this.
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To craft a compelling story, Innovation Teams must skillfully weave together a narrative around their challenge that does what to the listener?
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Colloquially, the Front End of Innovation is referred to as Innovation’s First Mile.
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Innovation Tournaments are internal competitions where teams of peers work together to identify a new opportunity for the business, develop a relatively complete and well-thought-out business plan for it, and then pitch it to an internal venture board, generally in order to get funding for taking the concept further, understanding that concepts which prove strong enough may ultimately make their way all the way through to final implementation, thereby providing an excellent method for surfacing and funding non-core, and potentially breakthrough or disruptive, business innovations.
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Understanding market problems and delivering successful innovations requires a business to be able to execute all three phases of an innovation project with equal care.
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The third step in the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method—Oblique Examination—involves both divergent and convergent processes.
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Why do we tell stories within our businesses?
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In selecting new ideas in Stage 3 of the GInI InMS, the organization must make every effort possible to use real data in their decision-making, as this forces them to accept reality as it really is.
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Throughout a brainstorming session, a Recorder should be assigned to record the ______ of the session. These would subsequently be documented and shared with affected stakeholders."
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Innovation is defined as doing something in a new or novel way that delivers more value and/or better experiences to customers and markets.
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Projects in the Back End must ultimately take all of the upfront work done in the Front End and Mid Zone and, via a carefully managed development process, turn that into _______________.
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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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Problem Reframing is the process of restating a problem from how it was originally encountered to 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 business is then able to ask of each one "Is it a problem worth solving?"
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To be productive, an Innovation Management System must have an effective Assimilation Process. That process will involve three activities, namely challenging, accumulating, and aggregating.
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Innovators are commonly known to have a disdain for what?
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IP Law Firms are often retained to undertake IP Research for firms, for which they tend to employ ________________ for conducting most of the work.
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In a given Innovation Project, the motivations that each stakeholder brings to the effort are known colloquially as what?
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Immersing oneself in radically different environments, thinking about unrealistic scenarios, and asking 'What If' questions are all means of doing what?
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As an Innovation Professional contributing to a program of sustained innovation output in your business, you are constantly feeding what?
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"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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In the fourth step of the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method—Synthesis & 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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