Category: How-To Guides

Open innovation allows organizations to bring together people from different backgrounds and disciplines in a collaborative environment to come up with solutions that would otherwise never exist.

Did you know that since 2000, 52% of Fortune 500 companies have gone down the road to failure? Technology disruptions are the main reason these companies either went bankrupt, acquired, or ceased to exist.

One way of measuring your competition success is by the number and quality of the submissions you receive. However, many competition organizers get lost in the operations, that they forget the outreach and communication part.

Planning a hackathon has its own specifics, from coming up with the concept, through managing applications, to selecting winners. Keeping a checklist is the simple yet most effective way to close all the gaps in organizing such an event.

One of the reasons why applicants churn from certain programs is the ambiguity related to the application process. Never hearing back from a program can be disappointing, especially if the applicant spent a long time filling in their application form.

Organizing an awards program can be a lot of work, many tasks to manage at the same time, and several stakeholders to communicate with, we feel you! However, if your aim is to increase the quantity and quality of applications received, you will need to add some more tasks to the list!

The judges experience needs to be straightforward and intuitive. As mentioned, judges usually are busy people, and they don’t expect to spend more time than they should reviewing or trying to reach applications.

After the hackathon launch, things get a little intense; you are supposed to handle several tasks such as manage applications, communicate with judges and mentors, moderate the hackathon community, all in parallel.
As a hackathon organizer, you need to orchestrate the entire event,