MBA Admission interviewer is unlikely to ask about innovation directly in an Interview, but the question would have variations like “What innovative solutions did you create during your employment?”. Don’t exaggerate simple solutions as innovation, or underestimate the innovative capacity of your solution.
Unbiased Evaluation
In order to evaluate whether a solution is innovative, you need a third-party’s opinion – not your family or friend, unless they are brutally honest. An expert in your domain should be the one who should reflect on the solution. This exercise might seem a futile one, but shortlisting solutions and evaluating them one by one in an unbiased manner is the key to answering questions about innovation. When you pick the expert, don’t select experts who has exposure only in your chosen field but find the one who is well versed in management too. If you go by the opinion of a domain expert, the term ‘innovation’ would be looked with a narrow context, without going into the impact that the solution had on customers and company.
Procedure/Systems/Policies/Solution
Most candidates look at innovation only from a solution point of view. The reality is that innovation can be achieved with procedures, systems and policies, and quite often a combination of these factors influence the creation of an innovative solution. The process of brainstorming might be a procedure, but it would have led you to create ....
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