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In some cases, what success looks like for an Innovation Team is to actually be able to force a new innovation concept to fail early on, rather than much later on, thereby saving the business much wasted effort, time, and money. Accordingly, Project Leaders have to advocate within their teams a mentality of ____.
The title " Intrapreneur " first appeared in a 1978 paper by Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot, who defined an Intrapreneur as dreamers who do.
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A key use of research in Needfinding work is for market segmentation, where an overall population of prospective customers is segmented according to the particular outcome each segment seeks.
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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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In running a Pilot (associated with Stage 5 of the GIMI InMS), the scale of the pilot, and the level of " maturity " of the offering will often be a function of what?
Studies have proven that more – not less – ____ make for better creativity and more creative outcomes.
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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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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Design Methods bring Design Thinking to life by allowing teams to study problems and evaluate potential solutions.
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In the sixth and final step of the GIMI Breakthrough Innovation Method - Realization - teams invest the time and effort needed to define detailed brand, product, design, and commercialization strategies for the concept they have been working on, all of which become a part of their formal business plan, which is in turn used by the business to make a decision on what?
As an Innovation Professional contributing to a program of sustained innovation output in your business, you are constantly feeding its Innovation Pipeline with new projects that allow the business to achieve what?
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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" 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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____ people make for good Innovation Team members because they love trying out new business ideas.
To be productive, an Innovation Management System must have an effective Assimilation Process. That process will involve three activities, namely ____.
Market Scouting is used to search out and find new markets where a business can do what?
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Venture Scouting is used to search out and find new startup ventures a business can invest in - a practice known as _____.
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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It has been demonstrated in numerous studies that the collective wisdom of a large group can often produce noticeably better insights and ideas than the more limited perspective of a narrow group, especially when considering that those on the outside assume the _____ perspective of a situation, while those on the inside assume the _____ perspective of the situation — these two perspectives producing very different outcomes.
Success with _____ in an organization usually comes down to one thing — its ability to drive and sustain engagement in its enterprise innovation program.
Context in the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method (the first step) gives a team a clear center point to focus on and boundaries in which to channel their efforts toward a particular outcome.
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Brokerage Search is an activity used in Intellectual Property Research in which IP Brokers and Agents are retained to help the business find new patents they can license or buy to use in their business.
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Using the third step in the GIMI Breakthrough Innovation Method - Oblique Examination - to address the solution space requires that we systematically identify whatever orthodoxies underlie ____ and deconstructively examine each one of them, asking such pointed and probing questions as " Why? " and " Why not? " about them - particularly in the context of the associated problem space.
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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Stage 2 of the GInI InMS is where __________ are used to engage the organization for the purpose of having them identify new ideas and opportunities for the business.
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In the Mid Zone of an innovation project, being able to develop a compelling business case for an opportunity with an accurate financial and strategic picture of it is important because such business cases get used by businesses for what?
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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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Becoming an Innovation Manager gives one a chance to make a name for themselves by ________________.
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What are the three high-level steps generally associated with a business’ Innovation Pipeline?
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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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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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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In a given Innovation Project, the motivations that each stakeholder brings to the effort are known colloquially as what?
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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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Design Thinking ask 3 fundamental questions about each proposed solution. The first of these - the Human element - asks what?
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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.
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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In order for the business ' Evaluation Group to be able to evaluate new innovation ideas and opportunities in Stage 3 of the GInI InMS, they must have what, so that they can know whether or not an idea has potential merit?
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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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As an Innovation Professional contributing to a program of sustained innovation output in your business, you are constantly feeding what?
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The third step in the GIMI Breakthrough Innovation Method - Oblique Examination - involves ____ a current business model or value proposition, examining and testing each of its underlying assumptions, and then ____ it in a very new way based on those insights.
Brainstorming, also known as Structured Ideation, is a process where teams do what to generate novel new ideas? "
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Qualitative studies are generally conducted in one of two ways—either online or as fieldwork. The latter involves going out into the field and talking to certain types of people, often when they are engaged in a particular experience of interest.
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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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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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Innovation Managers serve as the business ' ____ in driving their innovation program.
Program Leaders must take explicit steps using _____ to drive ongoing sustained engagement in the business ' innovation program.
As an Innovation Professional, you are a primary contributor to a program of what in your business?
Stage 4 of the GInI Innovation Management System is called _____ and defines the business’ _____.
____ are prototypes used to simulate a customer experience and/or the immersive environment in which that experience is intended to take place.
Context in the GIMI Breakthrough Innovation Method (the first step) gives a team ____ toward a particular outcome.
Because “The Questioner†has a natural curiosity that drives them to ask lots of probing questions about a situation, they are usually best suited for which phase of innovation work?
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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For projects in the Back End, there is a defined process for pursuing Design Strategy, consisting of three activities, namely _____.
Throughout Stage 4 of the GInI InMS, the organization will have many opportunities for feedback loops, where their learnings help them to either reinforce, redirect, or kill each project.
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____ 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. Individuals are then challenged to use these items 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.
Hard Research generally consists of two areas, namely Technology Research & Development and Intellectual Property Research.
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Several very large businesses have in recent years turned to running campaigns on crowdfunding sites—platforms traditionally reserved for entrepreneurs trying to raise funding to launch modest businesses. The main reason these large businesses use such platforms is that it allows them to market-test some of their more radical innovations by seeing how much attention, excitement, and buzz they generate on these sites.
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In the fourth step in the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method—Synthesis & Capture—teams conceptually define and document the details around any number of new solution concepts, including any feature mixes they require.
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Innovation Teams – if they are to be effective – must learn to use storytelling as their primary medium for doing what?
Core Innovation Teams tend to focus exclusively on innovation projects and usually exist where in the business?
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