Identify the step in the innovation process at which the following actions are most likely to occur.

$\backslash$table$[[$A clothing company ships new products to stores $2$ weeks before$],[$the release date $($instead of just $5$ days early$)$ to ensure they are$],[$available to customers on the release date.$],[$Neha compares several recent sneaker releases to choose the$],[$colorways for her company's next limited edition shoe.$],[$A single loan officer handles a customer's application throughout$],[$the process, rather than having each step completed by a$],[$different bank employee.$],[$At first, Bob's company was the only clothing manufacturer to$],[$make low$-$waisted jeans. However, within a year, most clothing$],[$manufacturers offered similar pants.$],[$Musashi started selling a mixtape on street corners. Once it got$],[$play time on a local radio station, thousands of people$],[$downloaded it from online sites.$],[$A manufacturer that makes compact disk $($CD$)$ players sold fewer$],[$CD players once people began buying music in MP$3$ format.$]]$