Hackathons
Hackathons involve working with people from different backgrounds, with complementary skills in a time-pressured environment on a shared goal to create fresh ideas and a rich learning environment.
Our award-winning version delivers against the needs of clients, specific sectors and regions. We run them both in-house and on an open basis.
In-house Hackathons
Our in-house hackathons are typically developed in order to:
- Elicit different views and perspectives to generate new ideas and shape strategy
- Apply and develop leadership skills and behaviours to a real-life challenge/ opportunity
- Facilitated cross-functional collaboration
- Build momentum and buy-in to change
Teams develop an idea, product or service over a 1-3 day period in response to a strategic challenge or problem statement, supported by guest speakers, bite-size training, tools and facilitation, before pitching their ideas to a senior judging panel from the business.
“Involving people from across the business in shaping a response to a pressing strategic challenge was a fantastic way for us to gain insight from colleagues and enable the wider leadership community to appreciate and navigate the bigger picture in which we are operating whilst developing essential non-technical skills.”
Sector and region-wide Hackathons
We build cross sector and region-wide hackathons, or hackathon-informed events, to address pressing societal and environmental challenges. Feedback from recent hackathons includes:
- 93% rated the overall experience as very good. The remaining 7% as brilliant.
- 100% rated it as a very or quite effective vehicle for developing critical thinking skills
- 100% rated it as very or quite effective vehicle for developing problem-solving skills
- 80% rated it as very effective for developing creative thinking and innovation skills
- 87% rated it as a very effective for developing collaboration and team working skills
- 73% felt it was very important that the challenge had societal, as well as business, benefits
- 100% said they would recommend it to colleagues.