01. When distilling our research findings, we generally observe patterns emerge. These patterns tend to yield two types of signals, namely _____.
a) strong and weak
b) large and small
c) fast and slow
d) up and down
02. It is not uncommon for the Level 1 E&S Process to occur monthly, bi-weekly, or even weekly - depending on what?
a) How lean the business operates.
b) How fast the business' industry moves.
c) How fast a campaign is running and how many ideas it is generating.
d) How eager and/or anxious the business' executives are to launch certain new innovations.
03. Which types of innovation are the projects that Core Innovation Teams run most often focused on?
a) Transformative and Reinventive.
b) Breakthrough and Disruptive.
c) Sustaining and Incremental.
d) Product and Process.
04. One of the key reasons Design Thinking is so powerful is that it allows us to deliver solutions that do what?
a) Make more money.
b) Cost us less to deliver.
c) Satisfy our business strategy.
d) Resonate with users.
05. In the context of Design Thinking, prototyping _____.
a) must permeate everything we do
b) should augment some of the things we do
c) must be completed prior to engaging in Design Methods
d) should complement our Design Methods
06. As an Innovation Professional, you may be called upon to develop what type of strategies for each Innovation concept?
a) Legal
b) Financial
c) Human Resource
d) Commercialization
07. Product Roadmapping is a routine Product Management practice used to _____, and is thus mainly used for managing the incremental innovations driven by a Product Manager.
a) guide the successive generations of a particular technology
b) plan out successive generations of a particular product line
c) plan out successive generations of sales, marketing, and branding strategies
d) orient the business more toward products and less toward services.
08. In Phase-Gate Project Management, management reviews are conducted at the individual toll gates in order to assess the progress of the project against pre-established criteria. If the project is unable to satisfy these criteria, what happens to it?
a) It is terminated, along with the team working on it.
b) It moves on anyway, since the milestone reviews are usually just "check-in-the-box" exercises.
c) It is either redefined into a different project, combined with another project, or terminated.
d) It proceeds on to the next phase in the project.
09. Which of the following are used as reinforcement mechanisms in the organization’s innovation program?
a) Incentives, Rewards, and Recognition
b) Being featured in corporate ads and being sent to represent the business at innovation trade shows.
c) Promotions, Raises, and Larger Offices.
d) Money, Fame, and Power.
10. Good Innovation Teams will have a well-balanced mix of which of the following?
a) Brain dominance patterns and personality types.
b) Discovery skills.
c) Hard innovation skills.
d) All of the above.
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