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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 _______________.

Select one correct answer from the list

A.

new insights the team can use to further refine its Innovation Intent.

B.

a precision-engineered offering that performs better than any other competing offering on the market

C.

a product or service design that in theory should be able to deliver on its Innovation Intent

D.

a well-designed product or service that delivers on its Innovation Intent

As an Innovation Project Leader, the Innovation Manager would generally function as both an Internal and External Leader, a situation that demands a very specific set of skills.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Lone Wolf / Pack

B.

Steadfast / reliable

C.

Team / Project

D.

Internal / External

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:

A.

Reinforce, redirect, or kill

B.

Reimagine, renew, or accelerate

C.

Remove, restore, or monitor

D.

Reinstate, refocus, or ignore

In order to manage the different stakeholders to a given Innovation Project, the Project Leader must figure out what each stakeholder’s motivations are, and how to thereby leverage those to achieve, overall, what needs to be accomplished.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Thoughts

B.

Motivations

C.

Favorite things

D.

Breaking points

For starting out new innovation projects in the Front End, teams begin by aligning themselves and their project with the business ' Innovation Strategy. However, they will at times encounter an opportunistic side to their insights work, which sometimes uncovers ______ around which the business may in fact amend its strategy - producing alignment from the bottom up rather than from the top down. "

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

significant new technological capabilities

B.

major problems or roadblocks

C.

significant new unforeseen opportunities

D.

significant new existential threats

Cross-Industry Lateral Innovation Panels are private groups of businesses from different industries who from time to time host panel sessions together where each business sends one or more leaders to engage with peers on the panel for the purpose of cross-pollinating ideas with one another. This tends to produce highly lateral thinking around different ways of doing things—aka lateral approaches. These individuals then return to their respective organizations and use their new insights as fresh fodder for the Innovation Funnel.

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

Super-Industry Horizontal Thinking Labs

B.

Intra-Industry Lateral Thinking Teams

C.

Cross-Industry Lateral Innovation Panels

D.

Extra-Industry Horizontal Innovation Forums

Coming out of the Level 2 E & S Process, the overall size of a business’ Pipeline, including resources, capacities, growth demands, and the relative scope of each project, will dictate what?

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.

_____ is used in the Front End to address “what” problems, in the Mid Zone to address “when”, “where”, and “who” problems, and in the Back End to address “how” problems.

A.

Analysis

B.

Creativity

C.

Leadership

D.

Imagination

In order to become an effective innovator, one must embrace which of the following?

Select one correct answer from the list:

A.

An eagerness to explore, experiment, and experience

B.

All the answers are correct

C.

A disdain for stasis and the status quo

D.

A sense of entrepreneurialism

A well-developed Opportunity Analysis will uncover for a business both _____.

A.

good opportunities and bad opportunities.

B.

tangible and intangible opportunities.

C.

currently untapped opportunities and future potential opportunities.

D.

unmet and unarticulated opportunities.