STRATEGIC THINKING
Innovation Behavior
Whether an unconventional idea was actually built, adopted, and tied to a real customer, business, technical, or operational outcome, not creativity for its own sake.
← All 16 dimensions in the competency frameworkWhat strong evidence looks like
- A specific idea, how it was prototyped or tested cheaply before committing
- Evidence of who had to be convinced to try it, and how
- A measurable result after it shipped and was adopted
What weak evidence looks like
- Describes "innovative thinking" with no shipped result
- No adoption evidence -- an idea that stayed a pitch
- Creativity presented as the outcome itself, with no downstream result
A real follow-up question
“Who had to be convinced to try this, and what evidence changed their mind?”
Questions like this follow directly from what you just said, not from a fixed script -- they exist to find out whether an answer holds up, not to check a box.
Related dimensions in Strategic Thinking
See where you actually stand on this
A self-assessment only goes so far. The adaptive interview tests exactly this kind of evidence, in your own words, with follow-up questions built to find out whether it holds up.