Question 1

Creativity is fairly strongly correlated with intelligence-more intelligent people tend to be more creative.

Accepted Answer

Research suggests that while there is some correlation between intelligence and creativity, it is not strong. Creativity involves divergent thinking and other factors that are not solely dependent on intelligence.

Question 2

An engineer who brings new information back to her firm from a trade show is probably a gatekeeper.

Accepted Answer

Gatekeepers are individuals in an organization who have the role of acquiring and disseminating information from external sources, such as trade shows, to their organization, facilitating innovation and knowledge sharing.

Question 3

R&D in an organization and creative employees need to become less concerned about secrecy and more involved in intensive collaboration with external parties to be successful when it comes to

Accepted Answer

Open innovation emphasizes the importance of extensive collaboration with external parties, including sharing and utilizing external ideas and paths to market, alongside internal ideas and paths. This approach contrasts with traditional, secrecy-focused R&D processes, advocating for a more open and collaborative innovation strategy.

Question 4

Which of the following best represents open innovation?

Accepted Answer

Open innovation involves sourcing ideas and solutions from a wide variety of external sources, including individuals, companies, and institutions outside the organization.

Question 5

When an organization invites input from a wide variety of external sources for innovative ideas, what is this called?

Accepted Answer

Open innovation is a term used to describe the process of an organization inviting ideas and contributions from a wide range of external sources as well as internal sources to drive innovation.

Question 6

The use of web-enabled input from external sources to facilitate innovation is called

Accepted Answer

Open innovation is a term used to describe the process of using external ideas and inputs to assist in the development and innovation of products and services. This approach contrasts with traditional models that rely solely on internal resources and capabilities.

Question 7

R&D groups whose members have been together a medium length of time communicate better than new groups or more mature groups.

Accepted Answer

Research indicates that R&D groups with a medium level of tenure diversity tend to have better communication than either very new or very mature groups. This is because they have had enough time to establish effective communication norms and trust, but not so much time that they become too set in their ways or suffer from groupthink.

Question 8

What is a managerial innovation?

Accepted Answer

Managerial innovation refers to the introduction of new forms of strategy, structure, human resource systems, and managerial practices that facilitate organizational change and adaptation, rather than directly leading to new products or services or focusing solely on the development of managers.

Question 9

When innovative ideas are extracted from the external environment by holding design competitions and/or using crowdsourcing to broadcast design problems to a large audience of potential innovators it is often called

Accepted Answer

Open innovation refers to the process where organizations go beyond their boundaries to source ideas and solutions from external entities, such as through design competitions or crowdsourcing, to drive innovation.

Question 10

The Stinky Cheese Company is trying to develop the world's smelliest cheese but has been struggling.As a result, it has decided to invite input from a wide variety of external sources.What is this called?

Accepted Answer

Open innovation refers to the process of a company going beyond its internal resources and collaborating with external sources, such as other organizations, research institutions, or the public, to drive innovation. This approach allows for a broader range of ideas and solutions.

Question 11

Who is most likely to engage in creative deviance?

Accepted Answer

Idea champions are individuals who actively promote and support new ideas, often going against the norm, which aligns with the concept of creative deviance.

Question 12

The Stinky Cheese Company is trying to develop the world's smelliest cheese but has been struggling.As a result, it has decided to provide employees with extrinsic rewards to increase their creative behaviour.What else do they need to do to increase creative behaviour?

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Question 13

What is open innovation?

Accepted Answer

Open innovation involves using external sources to enhance the innovation process, often through web-enabled platforms.

Question 14

Defying orders by management to stop working on a creative idea is known as

Accepted Answer

Creative deviance refers to the act of defying orders or ignoring the standard procedures in order to pursue a creative idea or solution. This term captures the essence of going against the norm or directives specifically for the purpose of innovation or creative problem-solving.

Question 15

Research evidence indicates that extrinsic rewards that are clearly tied to creativity increase creative behaviour, especially when accompanied by

Accepted Answer

Research shows that extrinsic rewards enhance creativity when they are explicitly linked to creative outcomes and are accompanied by autonomy and feedback. Autonomy allows individuals the freedom to explore ideas, while feedback provides guidance and recognition of creative efforts.

Question 16

Gatekeepers are individuals who oppose the innovations advocated by idea champions.

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Question 17

Jack works at the Stinky Cheese Company and he is working on a project which he believes will result in the world's stinkiest limburger cheese.His manager has told him to stop working on the project and focus on other projects that are more likely to be successful.However, whenever Jack's boss is out of sight, Jack continues to work on the world's stinkiest limburger cheese.How would you describe Jack's behaviour?

Accepted Answer

Jack's behavior can be described as "creative deviance" because he is disobeying his manager's orders to stop working on the project in order to pursue an innovative idea that he believes in.

Question 18

What is Deepak Chopra a good example of?

Accepted Answer

Deepak Chopra is a good example of an idea champion because he has been a leading figure in promoting alternative medicine and wellness, actively advocating for and supporting the integration of holistic and alternative health practices into mainstream consciousness. Idea champions are individuals who actively promote a new idea, innovation, or solution within or outside an organization, often facing resistance or skepticism. Chopra's work in bringing attention and credibility to alternative health practices exemplifies the characteristics of an idea champion.

Question 19

What two companies engage in extensive creativity training?

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Question 20

To be successful, what does open innovation require?

Accepted Answer

An identity shift is required for open innovation to be successful because it requires organizations to move away from a closed, secretive approach to innovation to one that is more open and collaborative.

Quiz 15: Organizational Change, Development, and Innovation