Resources

This 2024 “Innovation Day” presentation focuses on Minerals Technologies Inc., a $2.2 billion specialty minerals company, and how its technologies and product lines drive growth.

Overview of a mobility innovation contest was by Ford in collaboration with the City of Austin to crowdsource innovative solutions that improve mobility — especially access to health services, food, education, and essential amenities.

The construction and engineering firm Black & Veatch launched an internal tournament in 2023 to spur employees to explore potential ways they might employ generative AI. This slightly-genericized PowerPoint deck provides and overview of the tournament’s objectives; rules; and judging process.

Run-of-show, judging criteria and comms templates for internal challenges.

Hackathon overview, definition, and agenda, from a technology solutions company.

These slides were presented as part of an April 2018 webcast on sourcing, piloting, and scaling new ideas that is also available on InnoLead. You can register for upcoming InnoLead live calls here.

A slide deck template for participants in Boeing’s Innovation Day competition.

A guide to Harris Computer’s “Innovator’s Voice Competition,” which enables individuals and teams to spend some of their time innovating and creating new, novel products and services for customers. Harris develops mission critical software applications for the public sector, healthcare, utilities and private sector verticals.

A document outlining NRG’s idea challenge, called Idea Dash, including a 10-week timeline, key activities, and idea submission form.

Overview of how the Spanish bank runs its “Open Talent” competition for startups focused on the financial services industry, which generated 653 applications in 2015.