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GInI CInP Certified Innovation Professional (CInP) Exam Practice Test

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Question 1

Problem Reframing forces us to "start at the beginning" by exploring hypotheses.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Stating Design Principles

B.

Brainstorming solutions

C.

Exploring hypotheses

D.

Prototyping new ideas

Question 2

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:

Options:

A.

Building solution prototypes

B.

Ideating / brainstorming solutions

C.

Testing hypotheses

D.

Testing solution prototypes

Question 3

Innovation Management is largely about two activities, namely driving engagement for bottom-up participatory innovation, and then collecting, evaluating, and selecting the ideas and opportunities that result from this.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Engagement / ideas and opportunities

B.

Fun activities / fun ideas

C.

The business innovation program / improvement ideas

D.

Mandatory participation / new suggestions

Question 4

Good Innovation Teams know how to uncover market gaps and turn them into opportunities.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Competitors’ weaknesses / advantage

B.

Industry trends / knowledge

C.

Market gaps / opportunities

D.

Exciting technology / new products

Question 5

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

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Empathize / Ideate / Test

B.

Imagine / Test / Define

C.

Ideate / Experiment / Design

D.

Empathize / Experiment / Define

Question 6

Organizations should be aware that in the Evaluation process of Stage 3 of the GInI InMS, the confidence level around certain metrics can be low given how far out in time they are from the present, and thus a certain amount of subjectivity and judgment will be inherent in the process.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Guessing

B.

Mostly unknowns

C.

A certain amount of subjectivity and judgment

D.

A certain amount of optimistic speculation

Question 7

The third step in the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method—Oblique Examination—involves both divergent and convergent processes.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Fast / slow

B.

Divergent / convergent

C.

Problem / solution

D.

Internal / external

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:

Options:

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

Question 9

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Adding new features to the offering

B.

Hyping a new technology

C.

Initiating research and development into a new technology

D.

Using a new technology

Question 10

Many brainstorming sessions start with quiet time for individual brainwriting.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Problem review

B.

Brainwriting

C.

Sketching

D.

Reflection

Question 11

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

An accurate Gantt Chart

B.

A project post-mortem

C.

Pass the final decision gate

D.

A highly detailed project plan with several layers of approvals

Question 12

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

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

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

Question 13

Developing a concept further following its selection by an Evaluation Group often involves the creation of a preliminary business plan/business case for the concept.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

New hypotheses behind its problem

B.

A detailed design of the concept

C.

A preliminary business plan/business case for the concept

D.

A fully-detailed financial forecast for the concept, showing its return on investment with 95% confidence limits

Question 14

Innovation Kits 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, which the individuals are then challenged to use 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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Ideation Bundles

B.

Imagination Care Packages

C.

Innovation Kits

D.

Creativity Starter Packs

Question 15

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:

Options:

A.

hypothesis

B.

need

C.

idea

D.

question

Question 16

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

The particular outcome each segment seeks

B.

Various demographic factors

C.

Their lifestyles

D.

Their tastes—what they like and dislike

Question 17

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:

Options:

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

Question 18

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:

Options:

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

Question 19

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Market-test some of their more radical innovations by seeing how much attention, excitement, and buzz they generate on these sites

B.

Give their brand "street cred" for being truly innovative

C.

Gain extensive free marketing for their radical new innovations

D.

Generate extra revenue on the side to augment their main sources of revenue

Question 20

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

New value propositions, including any market niches they are aimed at

B.

New value models, including any technologies they rely on

C.

New business models, including any regulatory approvals they require

D.

New solution concepts, including any feature mixes they require

Question 21

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

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Not controlling your costs

B.

Issuing stockholder dividends that are too large

C.

Not innovating

D.

Marketing too many brands

Question 22

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:

Options:

A.

Build to Empathize

B.

Build to Decide

C.

Build to Learn

D.

Build to Compare

Question 23

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:

Options:

A.

Secret skunkworks projects that few know about

B.

A portfolio of projects

C.

Individual projects

D.

The business' innovation program

Question 24

For projects developing products in the Back End, the Operations team will plan out all of the necessary details for manufacture, assembly, supply-chain, and quality assurance.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Component manufacture, sub-assembly manufacture, and final assembly production

B.

Manufacture, assembly, supply-chain, and quality assurance

C.

Manufacture, distribution, sales, and marketing

D.

Production, distribution, quality, and sales

Question 25

First-Level E&S Teams do two key things that are critical to driving the business’ InMS. The first of these is to drive and facilitate the evaluation process for reviewing all incoming new ideas for their business and market merit.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

The aggregation process

B.

The evaluation process

C.

The challenge process

D.

The selection process

Question 26

Colloquially, the Front End of Innovation is referred to as Innovation’s First Mile.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Innovation’s First Mile

B.

Innovation’s Roadmap

C.

Innovation’s Long Road

D.

Innovation’s Last Mile

Question 27

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:

Options:

A.

Reinforce, redirect, or kill

B.

Reimagine, renew, or accelerate

C.

Remove, restore, or monitor

D.

Reinstate, refocus, or ignore

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