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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. Your interviews of employees has uncovered a weakness in which organizational component for innovation?

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False Alarm

An erroneous alert or notification indicating the presence of a threat or condition that in reality does not exist.

Miss

To fail to hit, reach, catch, or otherwise make contact with something; also used to express a feeling of loss or absence.

Signal-detection Theory

A framework for understanding how individuals discern between important stimuli and background noise under conditions of uncertainty.

Hit

In the context of memory recall, a correct identification or recognition of a previously encountered stimulus.