Masaru is a manager for Jinsoko Inc., a smartphone applications company. To promote new ideas, Masaru decides to allow his engineering team to devote 15 percent of their work time to whatever projects they would like to work on and reduces their assigned workload. He then institutes a 30-minute period each morning where the team members are asked to look over their current project list for the day and develop more knowledge about a task before they move on to work on their assigned tasks. What stage of the creative process would the 30-minute time period most likely promote? authentication association illumination verification preparation