GreenWin is the first Walloon competitiveness cluster to carry out a collaborative ideation action, inspired by the hackathon and startup weekend concepts - set up to stimulate the development of technologies, applications and solutions in the IT field - and adapted to the cluster's strategic areas of activity: the GreenW'Innovation Challenge or GIC.
The fundamental aim of the GreenW'Innovation Challenge is to stimulate the collective ideation of projects:
> through the transmission of a methodology that gives participants the desire to innovate by trusting each other,
> using tools and techniques that they can make their own,
> while working in groups where collaboration gives access to more collective intelligence and generates more joint projects.
Who is this experience aimed at?
We're targeting teams involved in innovation in companies, research centres, colleges and universities: managers and members of R&D teams (scientists, designers), as well as sales people who are in direct contact with the problems encountered by their customers and the needs of the market.
Why initiate a new approach to ideation within the cluster?
The idea is to offer an experience, a working methodology that represents an open innovation offer from the cluster to its members. This form of accelerated ideation will lead to concrete projects and consortia in priority areas that will be identified together.
What are the main features of the GIC?
The event is designed as a collaborative ideation challenge. The main ingredients are as follows:
> participants meet at the end of the day on D-1. The concept is explained, the methodology is presented, the groups are formed and start working.
> The next day, the pre-constituted groups meet and work towards solutions to the group's challenge.
> a coach guides the group through the collaborative methodology
> each group summarises the solutions that have emerged from its discussions and presents them to the members of the other groups in a pitch lasting a few minutes
What is a challenge?
It's an embarrassing question that poses or could pose a problem for the continuation of your company's activities or that will have a major impact on them, that you have identified either in your professional life or privately and for which, for lack of time or technical resources, you have not yet been able to find an answer.
In other words, one way of helping you to formulate the challenges is to start thinking about them in the following way:
> How can we optimise the recovery of our various types of waste, for example hard plastics? Go beyond optimising the management of waste flows by integrating waste as a secondary source of raw materials.
> How can I optimise my flows in a circular economy?
> What impact will the industry of the future and the transformation of the production professions have on my plant?
> How can we develop our products while reducing our energy use by x% and our raw materials by y%? How can we do twice as much with twice as little?
> ...
‘To know how to listen is to possess, in addition to your own, the brains of others’ - Leonardo da Vinci
‘Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is success’ - Henry Ford
‘Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.’ Chinese proverb
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