Past Innovation Challenges

Challenge: Social Impact 2030

1. Develop a data-driven decision-making framework to prioritize global social investments in health, education, and economic opportunity, prioritizing investments in technology-enabled solutions which reach delivering healthy and scalable returns while lowering risk. or
2. Identify key DellTechnologies’ solution(s) that can help address a pressing social need at scale in health, education, or economic opportunity, and articulate a 2-year plan to achieve goals.
3. Leverage Michael Porter’s Shared Value framework, recommend a 2-year plan to create economic value by creating shared value. Make specific recommendations in reconceiving products and markets, redefining value chains, and strengthening local clusters.

Challenge: Waste Management

1. Create frameworks for a world without waste that link collection of materials with economically viable end markets for recycled commodities.
2. Develop financial and logistics models would allow various industries to participate as a integrated recycling ecosystem.
3. Identify methods and processes that show how costs could be eliminated or reduced to benefit all the stakeholders.
4. Suggest ways to change the industry, consumer and local government perception of waste, recognizing that it may also be a valuable resource that will sustain the planet.
5. Establish possible KPIs that would reflect the growth of a circular economy in industry and local municipalities

Challenge: Open Source Business Model

1. Research various Open Source Models that are successful and have user traction.
2. Identify communities and ecosystems surrounding the most successful Open Source Models.
3. Study successful business models that have been successful and those that failed. Identify lessons learned.
4. Provide possible opportunities for Ericsson in the open source space that will create value for its entire ecosystem.

Corporate Sponsor & Mentors

1. Research Natural and New Sources of active ingredients in India for oral hygiene that could be produced and distributed in North Eastern parts of India.
2. Identify ways to promote local entrepreneurship leveraging Colgate brand that is both scalable and sustainable.
3. Recommend cost effective package solutions and models for regional distribution channels.
4. Develop possible business models that will benefit all stakeholders and ecosystems with social impacts.

Challenge: Digital Identity

1. Uncover a “killer application” for using digital identities in B2B and B2C settings.
2. Explore various business models to monetize digital identities.
3. Develop business cases to rationalize the ROI in digital identification.
4. infrastructure and development for B2B and B2C enterprises.
5. Identify key ecosystem partners to develop an open innovation model for commercializing digital ID at scale.

Challenge: Digital Transformation

1. Determine investment opportunities for key industries relating to 5G – ROI analysis on 5G investments for companies in key industries.
2. Identify potential business models for Wipro in the AI+Robotics space – explore business viability of possible opportunities.
3. Research and recommend AR/VR opportunities for Wipro in emerging markets – evaluate market readiness, applications and business models.

Challenge: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Market Expansion in Emerging Economies in the India sub continent

1. Research the challenges faced by business enterprises in adoption of Artificial Intelligence.
2. Identify bottle-necks and weakest links in the adoption process.
3. Recommend business models to help address these challenges based on failed and successful use cases.
4. Employ your learnings in business opportunities for AI in emerging markets in the context of local voice dialects and machine interaction.

Challenge: Supply Chain Management & Drone Technology

1. Explore the demand for cargo delivery market through the use of drones
2. Evaluate the best market entry points for cargo delivery for Embraer –who, where, what and how
3. Recommend an ecosystem of partners who will help reduce cost, risk and increase speed to market
4. Develop a sustainable and scalable Business Model
5. Research market demand for pre-scheduled vs on-demand deliveries
6. how could this business prospect collaborate with the principles of the “sharing economy” to increase asset utilization of Embraer owned drones, or partner.