Kick-off Hackathon
Replace your kick-off or off-site with a fun, business-related team activity.
Overview
Spend half a day developing your core values, sustainability agenda, or new product. This includes an introduction to the hackathon format and a tailored hackathon process focused on your theme or challenge.
Replace your kick-off with a fun, business-focused team activity. Spend half a day developing core values or new products through a tailored hackathon process.
Example Project
On December 4th, 2019, we delivered to McDonald’s Nordics a Kick-Off Hackathon to engage store managers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. The purpose was to create an engaging and impactful kick-off event, all in one day of full of innovation and collaboration. The event, held at Quality Hotel Friends in Stockholm, aimed to foster new ideas and drive forward-thinking initiatives across the organization.
Event Structure:
Full-Day Conference:
- Over 1000 employees participated in a series of activities, inspirational lectures, and hackathon workshops.
- The event kicked off with motivational speeches from industry leaders, setting the tone for a day of creativity and innovation.
Hackathon Workshops:
- The hackathon was divided into six focus areas, each designed to address key challenges and opportunities:
- A Plastic-Free Generation:** Exploring innovative ways to eliminate plastic use.
- The Future of Protein:** Developing new protein sources and alternatives.
- Next Generation Customer Experience:** Enhancing customer interactions and satisfaction.
- The Employer of Choice:** Creating an attractive and supportive workplace environment.
- Walk the Talk:** Focusing on health and sustainability initiatives.
Collaborative Activities:
- Teams worked intensively in their respective focus areas, brainstorming and developing actionable solutions.
- Interactive sessions facilitated knowledge sharing and cross-functional collaboration among participants.
Benefits:
- Employee Engagement: Empowered employees to contribute to the company’s innovation agenda.
- Cross-Regional Collaboration:** Fostered collaboration between employees from different countries, enhancing teamwork and knowledge exchange.
- Actionable Solutions:** Generated practical and innovative ideas to address key business challenges.
- Inspirational Leadership:** Provided employees with insights and motivation from industry experts and leaders.
Why Choose a Kick-Off Hackathon:
A Kick-Off Hackathon is an excellent way to energize your organisation and set the stage for a new year of innovation and growth. By bringing together employees from various regions and departments, this format fosters a culture of collaboration and creativity and builds trust. It’s an opportunity to tackle critical business issues, develop new ideas, and strengthen employee engagement.
Experience the Power of Innovation:
Our Kick-Off Hackathon services are designed to help your organization harness the collective creativity of your organisation. Whether you are a multinational corporation or a local business, we tailor our hackathon experiences to meet your specific needs and goals. Let us help you drive innovation and achieve your business objectives.
The Results
Each jury group will evaluate your solution based on these six criteria. The jury criteria are equally important in the evaluation. The jury criteria are the same for all 7 challenge categories.
Comprehensibility
Comprehensibility of the solution proposal’s value proposition and main use case
- Is it easy to understand the solution?
- Is it easy to understand how the solution works and how it will be implemented to solve the challenge?
- How well detailed is the description of the solution?
- Does it include an understanding of the key stakeholders and ecosystems that are relevant to the realisation of the solution?
- Will the end users of the solution understand it too, or do they need special skills to take part of it or use it?
Innovativeness
Innovativeness of the idea behind the solution, as well as the intended technology to be used in an implementation of the solution (if applicable).
- In what way is this solution innovative?
- Are there existing or similar solutions?
- How does the solution differ from any existing solutions?
Solving the SDGs
Does this solution correlate to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and how well does it solve the challenge it is intended to address.
- How well does the solution correlate to the SDGs?
- In what respect does the solution solve one or more of the SDGs?
- How many in the solutions target audience would experience an improvement and how extensive would that improvement be?
Realisability
Realisability of the solution from its current idea stage to implemented solution, used by its intended users in its problem context
- How realistic is the time plan?
- Does the solution have access to all the needed data (if applicable)?
- How well are potential risks calculated for?
- How soon can the solution be available to the intended users?
- Is the technology mature enough (if applicable)?
- Can a minimum viable product be created within 3 months?
- Can a proof of concept be created within 6 months?
Scalability
Scalability of the solution if it is implemented and realized.
- How many are experiencing the problem that this solution is intended to solve (if applicable)?
- How well does this solution scale?
Team
Team structure, functionality, adaptability and potential to scale a solution successfully
- How well is the team suited to realize the solution?
- Has the team reflected on any additional needs in the team structure to realize the solution?
- Are the members of this team motivated to invest time and energy to realize this solution?
