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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

Hackathons can take many forms, but usually involve an intensive series of brainstorming, collaboration, and evaluation sessions with the aim of answering or overcoming a specific challenge. This Microsoft-spawned company started as a thought at the 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon. Decide beforehand what you want to accomplish.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

Hackathons can take many forms, but usually involve an intensive series of brainstorming, collaboration, and evaluation sessions with the aim of answering or overcoming a specific challenge. This Microsoft-spawned company started as a thought at the 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon. Decide beforehand what you want to accomplish.

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

GroupMe, a group messaging app, began as a hackathon project at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in 2010. In contrast to quiet R&D labs, hub premises are meant to be bustling with activity, with lively events such as innovation jams or idea jams, hackathons, pitches, innovation challenges, idea competitions and brainstorms.

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Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Digital and Offline Innovation

Qmarkets

GroupMe, a group messaging app, began as a hackathon project at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in 2010. In contrast to quiet R&D labs, hub premises are meant to be bustling with activity, with lively events such as innovation jams or idea jams, hackathons, pitches, innovation challenges, idea competitions and brainstorms.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5