Where is Your Next Strategic Growth Coming From?

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 YOUR ORGANIZATION CAN EXPECT?

A customized innovation challenge tailored to your company's specific needs

Access to our expert facilitators, who will guide your team through the entire innovation process

Cutting-edge technology and resources to help your team prototype and test new ideas

A collaborative environment that fosters creativity and out-of-the-box thinkin

The opportunity to showcase your team's innovation to industry leaders and potential investors

DEADLINES TO APPLY

Winter

February 15th

Spring

May 3rd

Summer

June 6th

Fall

October 10th

FOLLOW THE PROVEN METHODOLOGY

5 Consulting Teams

2,000 hrs

Client Commitments

14 hrs

IXL

Mentors

100 hrs

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3-4

Innovation

Intent

Opportunity

Insights

Fields-of-

Play

Collaborative

Pose Challenge

Define Challenge

Provide Feedback

Prepare teams Extract Insights

Select Growth Areas

Prepare teams Extract Insights

Week 5-6

Week 7-8

Business Concepts

Business

Case

Competitive

Select Growth Concepts

Prepare teams Extract Insights

Select

Winners

Prepare clients for implementation

Client Commitments

14 hrs

FOLLOW THE PROVEN METHODOLOGY

Diverse strategic growth options

Through 15 new opportunity areas, 25 new business concepts to deliver the expected growth and 5 preliminary business cases to accelerate the solutions

Guaranteed high quality outcomes

Consulting teams guided by experienced IXL Center mentors, following a structured approach that integrates lean innovation, design thinking and rapid proto-cepting tools

Curated and trained top talent

Access and hiring opportunities from a pool of highly motivated MBAs and graduate students from leading universities worldwide

Best in-class value

At a fraction of the cost of traditional consulting projects, insights report, and outstanding satisfaction of in terms of value for the investment

WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

General Manager

“The best idea from the Innovation Olympics was transformed into reality with a minimum viable product and alignment with player along the value chain. This new business contributed 150 million dollars to the overall price of our credit card transaction business that we sold."

Director of Innovation Strategy

"I couldn't be happier with the results of the olympics. Thanks to the program it actually helped us question our strategy. You cannot get talent like that for that kind of money and get those sort of results."

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."

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."

Group President

"I now understand why we do this year after year. We continuously receive good ideas that inform our strategic thinking and lead to growth opportunities. We'll be back!"