




What if you could do it better, faster, and cheaper?

Five Diverse Teams Working on Your Challenge
Solutions in 8-10 Weeks
1/5th the Cost of Major Consulting Firms
SOME PARTICIPATING COMPANIES




4 CYCLES A YEAR - KICKOFF DATES
Winter
February 15th
Spring
May 22nd
Fall
September 20th
OUR APPROACH
OUR APPROACH
Five new growth areas
“Where is my next growth going to come from?”
“Where do I find new talent?
Five
Teams
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Diverse groupings
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Geographies
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Functional skills
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Cultural Background
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Industry experience
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Mixed genders
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Innovation trained
Proven
Methodology
Disciplined
Approach
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Developed at Arthur D Little, Monitor, and IXL Center
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Endorsed by Global Innovation Management Institute (GIMI)
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Integrates many innovation techniques, including Blue Ocean, Disruptive Innovation, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Agile Sprints
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8-10 Weeks
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Biweekly steering meetings
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Disciplined workplan
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Structured presentations
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Disciplined management through online platforms
Innovation
Intent
PROVEN METHODOLOGY
8 - 10 weeks
Define Challenge
Workshop
1. Innovation
intent
2. Opportunity
Insights
3. Fields-of-
Play
4. Business
Concepts
5. Business
Case
Recommendations
Workshop
Develop the challenge and kickoff presentation
Be explicit about why you need to innovate
Get very smart about your industry
Identify strategic spaces to innovate
Build a pipeline of robust business
concepts
Flesh out concepts into business cases to make it real
Delivery of the report for investment and next step decisions
Strategic
Challenge
Strategic
Innovation Focus
5 Opportunity
Maps
25 Fields-Of-
Play
25 Business
Concepts
5 Business
Concepts
IXL Insights and Recommendations







Through our Innovation Olympics, companies can participate in a series of challenges designed to help them think outside the box and come up with creative solutions to real-world problems
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Global Manager
"Meeting the needs of millions of aging populations will require new technologies, partnerships,ideas and business models. IXL Innovation Olympics program helped us navigate this somewhat uncharted territory and provided actionable insights to bring this forward. We are extremely impressed by the results!”

General Manager
"I have been truly impressed by both the quality of the work and the effectiveness of the innovation process…What impresses me most is the business implication: this process can be used to generate value within an existing organization with its existing people."

VP of Technology & Innovation
"Verizon was looking for a way to continue our growth in a challenging technology and innovation environment. The students brought varying views to the problem, and uncovered things that would have otherwise not have been uncovered."

SOME OF OUR CLIENTS CHALLENGES
Over 250 companies across 40+ industries have identified and developed new growth opportunities by leveraging our open innovation platform