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By Phil Best
In order to innovate, you need to immerse yourself in your problem. Here, Phil Best of LPK outlines some "triggers of innovation"—questions that can be used as the basis of an innovation workshop. Following each question, he shows the answer as pertains to Apple's (AAPL) iPod. Each answer is scored out of 10.