6-PROMISES-INTERNAL-INNOVATION-CHALLENGE

Innovation Challenges: A Powerful Way to Boost Digital Transformation

6-PROMISES-INTERNAL-INNOVATION-CHALLENGE

Innovation Challenges: A Powerful Way to Boost Digital Transformation

Table of Contents

Boosting its digital transformation is the goal of almost every single company on this football called planet earth. If some approaches work better than others, internal open innovation challenges are still at the top of our list.

Agility, intrapreneurship, digital acculturation, learning by doing, etc. These words, abruptly said by major companies, are actually quite difficult to enter into the customs. Best practices are tricky to implement.

An innovation competition for employees is not only top-notch for the internal employer brand of a company. It is also a formidable way for collaborators to put their heads together working on a real issue; whether it’s related to business, marketing, recruitment, etc.

Six promises to enhance and boost a company’s digital transformation.

Crowdsourcing Approach

Real crowdsourcing operation, we are talking about massifying ideas’ research.

Crowdsourcing is also an indubitable in-house talents revealer. An internal challenge is a tremendous tool to spot intrapreneurial profiles that are able to bring groundbreaking ideas to their company.

Creativity Stimulation

The goals here is to foster the company’s growth by putting creativity at the forefront.

As Google would say: “Innovation comes from everywhere”. With teamwork, the creative muscle is at its peak; if you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.

Creativity by collaboration is a given. But when creativity is challenged by a wide range of backgrounds (departments), we are usually not disappointed.

Breaking Silos

Multidisciplinary teams put the emphasis on breaking silos between units.

Design, marketing, communication, sales; involved participants from everywhere within the organization in order to mix (and spice?😏) things up.

Learning by Doing

Try it out.

A challenge is a chance for employees to familiarize themselves with digital tools. They will do it with enthusiasm, not as a constraint. The tool, whatever it is, is considered as a demarcation asset. The best way to learn is by applying methods instead of just learning them.

In a hackathon, challenge, innovation competition: we are learning by doing. 🏃🤓

Cooperation & Competition

Goal: instate a “competition” approach.

The subtle blend of cooperation and competition, collective intelligence valorizes collaborative innovation. By resolving a problem, healthy emulation springs within internal teams.

Problem-solving

To be accurate: creative problem-solving.

Solder teams that put their energy towards creative problem-solving rather than the problem themselves. Haven’t you experienced a friendship growth after solving a problem with someone?

Emotionally eminent, problem-solving by collaboration reinforces the sense of belonging.

Conclusion

Several steps, benefits, and promises.

Our experience showed us how tough it can be to boost its digital transformation, especially when the latter takes place in a major corporation. Maintaining its company’s growth by going digital is not given to everyone.

Digitalization shakes buying behavior and forces companies to think differently, whether it’s marketing, management, recruitment, etc.

The great bonus of an online to offline (the final) innovation challenge is that lots of fields are linked. When you want to source innovation, you do it alongside spotting intrapreneurial minds. When you want to solve a business issue, you create unexpected group dynamics.

Whatever the topic can be, results provide opportunities that the company did not expect. We saw a lot of companies reap fruits they thought they did not sow.

Overcoming the Unexpected with Your Employees cover temp

Discover how Employee Driven Innovation (EDI) within an organisation helps overcome and regain function during and after a crisis.

Sharing is caring

Table of Contents

Related Posts

Logo agorize

Agorize comes from “Agora” and “Rise” and empowers companies and people from all over the world through Open innovation Challenges.

Learn more about  job4ukraine , our initiative to help refugees from Ukraine find a job in Europe.

Our products

Agorize IDEA BOX

Agorize INNOVATION

Agorize HIRE

Intrapreneurship program

Student challenges

Startup challenges

Hackathons

Digital change management

Agorize for Good

Insights

Resources

Blog

Our challenges 

Project Management

Guide To Innovation Management

Legal

Terms of use

Privacy policy

Follow us


Facebook-f


Twitter


Linkedin


Instagram

Contact us

+33 1 55 43 79 44

Download your ebook

Please fill in the form and your ebook will be sent to your email address 🚀

We use cookies to give you the best online experience. Please let us know if you agree to all of these cookies.

Send us a message

We will be happy to read it and answer to you as soon as we can.