In the fourth major step of the Design Thinking process, the activity associated with "Test" is testing solution prototypes.
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Evaluation and Selection often happens at two or more levels. The second level is generally run by executives from across the business.
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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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Whenever an Innovation Team must eventually hand off its project to another team somewhere down the road, if they do not first get upfront alignment from this downstream team and its leadership, that downstream team is likely to refuse to own the project, and thus drop it and let it die.
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The fourth step for projects in the Back End is for teams to undertake the formal design and development work required to have a final design for the offering. For a product, this involves an engineering design that is consistently manufacturable and yields a product capable of delivering on the Design and Innovation Intents set for it.
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Since each Mechanism of Engagement will resonate with a different audience in the business, a portfolio approach to their use allows a program to maximize its overall engagement, while also benefiting from what?
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Many brainstorming sessions start with quiet time for individual brainwriting.
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In the long run, what is more expensive than innovating?
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Because "The Planner" will coordinate the production and delivery of a new offering, they are usually best suited for which phase of innovation work?
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An Innovation Team’s story must convey a true sense of purpose in resolving their challenge, and must relate that to something that truly matters at a fundamentally human level, not just at a business level.
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Innovation is an acquirable mentality and skillset.
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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 theway 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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Hard Research generally consists of two areas, namely Technology Research & Development and Intellectual Property Research.
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Because "The Maverick" likes to challenge the status quo, being that they are driven and hungry for doing new things, they are usually best suited for which phase of innovation work?
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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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As a Project Leader, the Innovation Manager typically drives focused innovation work inside of a portfolio of projects.
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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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The fifth step in the Design Thinking process serves as the junction between the Front End and Back End of Innovation.
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The basic formula of a successful business is the storyline of a hero overcoming obstacles to save the day. For us as Innovators, that means what?
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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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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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The second major step of the Design Thinking process is made of which three action steps?
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In Stage 5 of the GInI InMS, the purpose of a Pilot is to provide a final grand opportunity for commercial validation of the concept, allowing the business to develop greater confidence that its hypothesis and solution were both valid, and thus the offering will be capable of scaling to its full expected potential.
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For projects developing products in the Back End, once final funds are released and capital equipment has been procured, the Operations Team will begin preparations to ready the product for pilot and eventual launch.
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