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GInI CInP Certified Innovation Professional (CInP) Exam Practice Test

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Certified Innovation Professional (CInP) Questions and Answers

Question 1

" One of the Program Leader ' s jobs in relation to Engagement is to monitor the results from each engagement mechanism and ensure that the innovation program is realizing the outcomes it needs from each mechanism, adjusting as needed by either ______ or ______. "

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

replacing a mechanism with a different one / executing a mechanism in a different way.

B.

restricting the overall number of mechanisms the business can use / running each mechanism themselves

C.

using a favorite mechanism more / getting a different Engagement Team to run a particular mechanism

D.

eliminating all current mechanisms for entirely new ones / finding someone else to drive the Engagement program

Question 2

Brainstorming, also known as Structured Ideation, is a process where teams do what to generate novel new ideas? "

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Tell compelling stories to one another.

B.

Challenge each other to individually come up with the best ideas.

C.

Pool their collective intelligence.

D.

Crowdsource new ideas from the public.

Question 3

For those projects launching a new brand or a new offering that will impact a brand, the second step in the Mid Zone is to develop what?

Options:

A.

A Brand Playbook

B.

A Brand Persona

C.

A Brand Name

D.

A Brand Image

Question 4

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:

Options:

A.

The Back End

B.

The Front End

C.

The Mid Zone

D.

All phases

Question 5

Design Methods can be broadly grouped into four categories. The first of these is what?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Observe

B.

Experiment

C.

Question

D.

Study

Question 6

Even though a Core Innovation Team will be made up of a diverse set of personalities – dreamers, designers, strategists, doers, and the occasional maverick – these people have to be capable of what if they are to be productive at fulfilling their charter?

Options:

A.

integrating themselves procedurally

B.

all working independently

C.

tolerating one another

D.

gelling as a creative force

Question 7

_____ is a useful tool for helping a business understand the forces at play in the world and the different ways these forces may play out and interact to shape their future reality.

Options:

A.

Porter’s 5 Forces

B.

Scenario Planning

C.

Strategic Planning

D.

Trendcasting

Question 8

Breakthrough Innovation is characterized by completely new offerings within existing categories that substantially raise the bar on the value or experience delivered.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Substantially increase the brand value associated with them

B.

Substantially raise the bar on the level of competitiveness they offer

C.

Substantially lowers the cost of doing business

D.

Substantially raise the bar on the value or experience delivered

Question 9

A key use of research in Needfinding work is for engaging potential customers, which is done using various forms of ______, or in the office using methods such as ______. Both can bring useful insights into the Needfinding discussion.

Options:

A.

insights mining / Maverick Panels

B.

secondary research / primary research

C.

market analysis / online surveys

D.

fieldwork / Focus Groups

Question 10

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:

Options:

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

Question 11

________________ are prototypes intended to convey the appearance of a particular artifact, even though they may not have the functionality of said artifact.

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Looks-Like Prototypes

B.

Works-Like Prototypes

C.

Feels-Like Prototypes

D.

Sounds-Like Prototypes

Question 12

In the second major step of the Design Thinking process, the activity associated with " Empathize " is what?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Testing hypotheses.

B.

Prototyping new ideas.

C.

Developing hypotheses.

D.

Running business experiments.

Question 13

After having a number of teams conduct further validation and scoping on their respective projects in the Front End, a business is then able to ask of each one " Is it a problem worth solving? "

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

B.

Customer they care about

C.

Problem worth solving

D.

Problem behind a problem

Question 14

Good Innovation Teams - those populated with the right types of individuals - should be given what in their work?

Options:

A.

A strict, well-defined mandate with predefined plans.

B.

Detailed instructions and clear guidance.

C.

Latitude and autonomy.

D.

Lots of opportunities to play and have fun.

Question 15

Design Thinking forces us to " think like a designer " in that it has us constantly in search of better insights.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

More creative ideas

B.

Design solutions

C.

Better insights

D.

New patterns

Question 16

The purpose of a business is what?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

To create value for its different stakeholders.

B.

To grow to a large enough size that it can influence society.

C.

To make money, in the form of profit.

D.

To develop and sell good products and services.

Question 17

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

Options:

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

Question 18

A key use of research in Needfinding work is for market segmentation, where an overall population of prospective customers are segmented according to what?

Options:

A.

The particular outcome each segment seeks.

B.

Their tastes - what they like and dislike.

C.

Various demographic factors.

D.

Their lifestyles.

Question 19

Build to Empathize is one of the 12 Purposes of Prototyping in which we build prototypes to develop a deeper understanding of the customer and of their world / situation / problem.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Build to Learn

B.

Build to Think

C.

Build to Clarify

D.

Build to Empathize

Question 20

With experience, Project Leaders learn to structure the work of their projects to ensure the necessary actions are taken to follow a good innovation process.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

manage each detail of the work their team does

B.

cast a compelling vision

C.

structure the work of their projects

D.

recruit very capable people

Question 21

____ are outside conferences that individuals attend to be exposed to fresh thinking and diverse ideas from all over the world, as well as to interact with presenters and other attendees to further explore and develop some of those ideas. Attendees typically return home inspired with new ways of seeing and thinking and with new ideas that can be applied inside the business. Some of these inevitably make their way into the Innovation Funnel.

Options:

A.

Brain Accelerators

B.

Idea Conferences

C.

News Conferences

D.

Brainstorming Conferences

Question 22

Design Thinking ask 3 fundamental questions about each proposed solution. The first of these - the Human element - asks what?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Is it acceptable to our managers?

B.

Is it viable to the business?

C.

Is it desirable to users?

D.

Is it feasible technologically?

Question 23

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 24

Innovators are commonly known to have a disdain for what?

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Lean thinking.

B.

Making a profit.

C.

The status quo.

D.

Other people.

Question 25

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:

Options:

A.

Their analytical abilities

B.

Their imagination

C.

Connecting the dots

D.

Their creativity

Question 26

As a Program Leader, you would be charged primarily with what?

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Helping to drive the business ' Innovation Program.

B.

Helping the business apply Design Methods to its challenges.

C.

Setting the business ' Innovation Strategy.

D.

Leading individual Innovation Projects for the business.

Question 27

In order to gain insights from the research we undertake and the observations we make, we have to distill down all of that information to figure out what the information is trying to tell us.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Figure out what the information is trying to tell us

B.

Figure out why the pieces of information do not match one another

C.

Have far less information

D.

Determine what other information we need

Question 28

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:

Options:

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

Question 29

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 30

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 31

Immersing oneself in radically different environments, thinking about unrealistic scenarios, and asking ' What If ' questions are all means of doing what?

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Getting the creative juices flowing.

B.

Firing up the analytical mind.

C.

Sparking the imagination.

D.

Connecting the dots.

Question 32

_____________ people make for good Innovation Team members because they love to constantly experience new people, places, and things.

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Very secure

B.

Lonely

C.

Inherently brilliant

D.

Highly experiential

Question 33

The fifth step for projects in the Front End is for teams to work toward defining an optimal solution to the problem at hand, using different Innovation Methods. Their job is to consider and test many different solution concepts, and ultimately select the concept with the highest probability of being the optimal and ideal solution for the situation.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

The concept with the highest likelihood of being popular among customers

B.

The concept with the greatest financial return to the business

C.

The concept with the highest probability of being the optimal and ideal solution for the situation

D.

The concept with the least amount of risk associated with it

Question 34

If a new innovation is to be true to how it was originally conceived, the business cannot afford to fail in the Back End, as failure would mean ____ . This is why execution is so critically important.

Options:

A.

utter collapse for the business

B.

that all the time, effort, and expense it had invested in the prior stages was wasted

C.

that the business ' Project Managers were incompetent

D.

significant embarrassment in the marketplace

Question 35

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.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Engage in further ideation and design work

B.

Engage in crowdsourcing to uncover external insights

C.

Engage in further study of the business’ capabilities

D.

Engage in further exploration and discovery work

Question 36

Though __________ is often required, it can be costly. For that reason Innovation Teams must first try to use __________ as much as they can.

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Primary Research / Secondary Research

B.

Deep Research / Shallow Research

C.

Secondary Research / Primary Research

D.

Initial Research / Follow-on Research

Question 37

The title " Intrapreneur " first appeared in a 1978 paper by Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot, who defined an Intrapreneur as dreamers who do.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Tinkerers who believe

B.

Winners who dream

C.

Creatives who act

D.

Dreamers who do

Question 38

When initiating a brainstorming session, the facilitator would pose 2-3 questions to frame the challenge and thus establish the context for the session.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Set the pace

B.

Create motivation

C.

Create a tone

D.

Establish the context

Question 39

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.

Options:

A.

public’s / managers’

B.

executives’ / workers’

C.

customers’ / CEOs’

D.

market’s / business’

Question 40

It is imperative that certain of the individuals involved in the Mid Zone of an innovation project have solid financial analysis skills, so that they can analyze all of the financial considerations involved and from those develop what?

Options:

A.

An enthralling business case with a highly optimistic financial and strategic picture of the opportunity.

B.

A decent business case with a rough financial and strategic picture of the opportunity.

C.

A compelling business case with the most accurate financial and strategic picture of the opportunity.

D.

A compelling business case that tells the story of the opportunity the team wants to tell.

Question 41

In Stage 4 of the GInI InMS, it is the _____’s job to ensure the project receives the level of attention and resources it needs (of various types) in order to get started successfully and keep moving forward.

Options:

A.

Chief Innovation Officer

B.

Project Champion

C.

Project Manager

D.

Project Coordinator

Question 42

Program Leaders must take explicit steps using _____ to drive ongoing sustained engagement in the business ' innovation program.

Options:

A.

reinforcement mechanisms

B.

structural mechanisms

C.

enabling devices

D.

support structures

Question 43

To be productive, an Innovation Management System must have an effective Assimilation Process. That process will involve three activities, namely ____.

Options:

A.

challenging, accumulating, and aggregating

B.

provoking, picking, and clustering

C.

mocking, choosing, and lumping

D.

asking, gathering, and sorting

Question 44

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 45

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:

Options:

A.

The Mid Zone

B.

The Back End

C.

All phases

D.

The Front End

Question 46

Customer Experience Innovation involves ______ to produce a greater sense of value by those encountering it.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

The staging of a purposefully-designed and orchestrated new customer experience.

B.

The delivery of a new product that delivers a much better product experience.

C.

The use of marketing to tell the world yours is a much better experience.

D.

The delivery of a new service that delivers a much better service experience.

Question 47

_____ engage in a certain amount of their own risk taking within their business to pursue a new innovation they are passionate about, even sometimes when they are not formally sanctioned.

Options:

A.

Intrapreneurs

B.

Dreamers

C.

Mavericks

D.

Rebels

Question 48

When finished with a particular brainstorming session, a group would typically cluster the resulting ideas and concepts using Affinity Analysis.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Cluster

B.

Critique

C.

Evaluate

D.

Rank

Question 49

Throughout a brainstorming session, a Recorder should be assigned to record the ______ of the session. These would subsequently be documented and shared with affected stakeholders. "

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

key ideas, themes, assessments, and final outcomes

B.

most creative ideas

C.

final idea selected

D.

purpose

Question 50

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?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Realize its return on the investment.

B.

Reward the team that launched the offering.

C.

Relax and enjoy the benefits for the next several years.

D.

Be able to tout how innovative it is.

Question 51

The fifth step of the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method is known as __________________, and is intended to give teams extended time in which to further develop select concepts.

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Germination & Election

B.

Incubation & Selection

C.

Gestation & Evaluation

D.

Rumination & Appropriation

Question 52

In the fourth major step of the Design Thinking process, the activity associated with " Ideate " is what?

Options:

A.

Testing solution prototypes.

B.

Developing hypotheses.

C.

Prototyping solutions.

D.

Ideating / brainstorming solutions.

Question 53

Innovation is defined as doing something in a new or novel way that delivers more value and/or better experiences to customers and markets.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Better branding and/or better advertising

B.

More value and/or better experiences

C.

Lower prices and/or easier access

D.

Newer technology and/or more features

Question 54

According to Peter Drucker, in order for something to qualify as a true business innovation, it must simultaneously be what?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

Interesting, cost-effective, and full-featured.

B.

Alluring, luxurious, and well-packaged.

C.

Desirable, viable, and feasible.

D.

Enviable, robust, and capable.

Question 55

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 56

Innovation is an acquirable mentality and skillset.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

in-born

B.

extremely common

C.

extremely rare

D.

acquirable

Question 57

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?

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

What the business executives think of the final offering.

B.

What the market response will be prior to going full-scale with the offering.

C.

Whether or not the new innovation will exceed the profit targets set for it.

D.

Whether or not the new innovation will get lots of media buzz.

Question 58

When finished with a particular brainstorming session, a group would typically ____ the resulting ideas and concepts using Affinity Analysis.

Options:

A.

cluster

B.

evaluate

C.

rank

D.

critique

Question 59

____ are prototypes used to simulate a customer experience and/or the immersive environment in which that experience is intended to take place.

Options:

A.

Customer Prototypes

B.

Behavioral Prototypes

C.

Experience Prototypes

D.

Works-Like Prototypes

Question 60

Rewards generally involve either _____ or _____.

Options:

A.

new cars / vacation homes

B.

cash prizes / high-value material prizes

C.

promotions / salary raises

D.

letters of appreciation / certificates of accomplishment

Question 61

The jumping off point for ____ is a detailed profile of the business, from which it considers the various ways in which the world is changing and how that impacts the business and its business models.

Options:

A.

Market Profiling

B.

Operational Review

C.

Market Analysis

D.

Opportunity Analysis

Question 62

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 63

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

Question 64

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 65

A well-developed Opportunity Analysis will uncover for a business both unmet and unarticulated opportunities.

Select one correct answer from the list:

Options:

A.

Tangible and intangible opportunities

B.

Good opportunities and bad opportunities

C.

Currently untapped opportunities and future potential opportunities

D.

Unmet and unarticulated opportunities

Question 66

Becoming an Innovation Manager gives one a chance to make a name for themselves by ________________.

Select one correct answer from the list

Options:

A.

leading the most radical and demanding innovation efforts

B.

showing off how much they know

C.

demonstrating lean thinking skills and financial acumen

D.

demonstrating leadership skills and business acumen

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