Table 14.2
As an innovation consultant, you work with a number of firms. Better Mousetraps builds inexpensive but sophisticated mousetraps. They have very capable designers and engineers who are highly motivated by a personal desire to rid the world of mice, yet innovation is low. The CEO asks you to conduct some creativity training. You lead the key designers through a process for coming up with new ideas by reframing common problems in unique ways to come up with multiple or alternative solutions. Along with the training, you interview the designers and engineers and discover that they are not clear on what the CEO wants. You also find they perceive a corporate bias towards the status quo, not an encouragement to innovate.
-Refer to Table 14.2. What creativity component seems to be weak at Better Mousetraps?
A) Domain-relevant skills
B) Creativity-relevant skills
C) Intrinsic task motivation
D) Affective identity
Correct Answer:
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Q64: Table 14.2
As an innovation consultant, you work
Q65: Revising the basic way that business is
Q66: Changes in pivotal organizational practices are considered
Q67: While an organization's culture builds a sense
Q68: A key organizational component necessary to foster
Q70: The nurturing of an innovation takes place
Q71: The most important organizational cultural element for
Q72: Experience and research show that effective innovation
Q73: Table 14.1
Graduate students are studying their university's
Q74: Table 14.2
As an innovation consultant, you work
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