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Question # 4

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:

A.

Building solution prototypes

B.

Ideating / brainstorming solutions

C.

Testing hypotheses

D.

Testing solution prototypes

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Question # 5

Evaluation and Selection often happens at two or more levels. The second level is generally run by executives from across the business.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Qualitative analysts

B.

Innovation Managers

C.

Executives

D.

Various volunteers

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Question # 6

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:

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

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Question # 7

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Refuse to own the project, and thus drop it and let it die

B.

Complain to the business’ senior leadership

C.

Decide that innovation just doesn’t work

D.

Charge the Innovation Group for its time

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Question # 8

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Manufacturing ready and yields a product capable of satisfying customers

B.

Easy to manufacture and assemble, and yields a product customers are very happy with

C.

Consistently manufacturable and yields a product capable of delivering on the Design and Innovation Intents set for it

D.

Manufacturable within quality limits and yields a product that meets all of its specifications

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Question # 9

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?

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

A variety of languages

B.

A diversity of personalities, styles, perspectives, and capabilities

C.

A breadth of different demographics

D.

A range of intellectual capacities

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Question # 10

Many brainstorming sessions start with quiet time for individual brainwriting.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Problem review

B.

Brainwriting

C.

Sketching

D.

Reflection

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Question # 11

In the long run, what is more expensive than innovating?

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Not controlling your costs

B.

Issuing stockholder dividends that are too large

C.

Not innovating

D.

Marketing too many brands

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Question # 12

Because "The Planner" will coordinate the production and delivery of a new offering, they are usually best suited for which phase of innovation work?

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

The Back End

B.

The Front End

C.

The Mid Zone

D.

All phases

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Question # 13

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

A true sense of purpose

B.

A sense of ownership

C.

A true sense of pride

D.

A sense of wonder

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Question # 14

Innovation is an acquirable mentality and skillset.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

in-born

B.

extremely common

C.

extremely rare

D.

acquirable

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Question # 15

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Hackathons

B.

Business Plan Competitions

C.

Innovation Jams

D.

Innovation Tournaments

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Question # 16

Hard Research generally consists of two areas, namely Technology Research & Development and Intellectual Property Research.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Theoretical Science and Journal Publication

B.

Scientific Discovery and Engineering Design

C.

Technology Research & Development and Intellectual Property Research

D.

Psychology Research & Development and Real Property Research

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Question # 17

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?

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

The Mid Zone

B.

The Back End

C.

All phases

D.

The Front End

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Question # 18

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Scaled back to fit market demand

B.

Allowed to continue running in pilot mode

C.

Reconsidered by the business’ head decision-makers

D.

Ramped up to full-scale capacity

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Question # 19

As a Project Leader, the Innovation Manager typically drives focused innovation work inside of a portfolio of projects.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Secret skunkworks projects that few know about

B.

A portfolio of projects

C.

Individual projects

D.

The business' innovation program

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Question # 20

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:

A.

Their analytical abilities

B.

Their imagination

C.

Connecting the dots

D.

Their creativity

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Question # 21

The fifth step in the Design Thinking process serves as the junction between the Front End and Back End of Innovation.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

The Front End and Back End of Innovation

B.

The Front End and Mid Zone of Innovation

C.

The Mid Zone and Back End of Innovation

D.

The Fuzzy Front End and the Messy Back

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Question # 22

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?

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Make the world a better place

B.

Find a need and meet it

C.

Secure financial backing and scale up a huge business

D.

Look innovative as absolutely possible

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Question # 23

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:

A.

hypothesis

B.

need

C.

idea

D.

question

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Question # 24

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Build to Empathize

B.

Build to Decide

C.

Build to Learn

D.

Build to Compare

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Question # 25

The second major step of the Design Thinking process is made of which three action steps?

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Empathize / Ideate / Test

B.

Imagine / Test / Define

C.

Ideate / Experiment / Design

D.

Empathize / Experiment / Define

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Question # 26

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Its problem statement and solution statement were both valid, and thus the offering will be better than its competitors’ offerings

B.

Its postulates and concepts were both valid, and thus the offering will realize substantial media buzz

C.

Its theories and ideas were both valid, and thus the offering will be liked by its customers

D.

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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Question # 27

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Start helping the marketing team produce effective marketing collateral for the product

B.

Begin their production planning work

C.

Start production

D.

Begin preparations to ready the product for pilot and eventual launch

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