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32 articles on building innovation capability, designing stronger challenges, and turning participation into progress.
How Hackathons Ignite a Culture of Innovation—And Why Every Organization Should Care
Discover how hackathons drive actionable innovation by connecting creative problem-solving to real business challenges. With viable concepts and prototypes ready for development, hackathons help organization…
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Innovating through Adversity: Turning Pressure into Progress
Recent research suggests that pressure, when managed effectively, can actually stimulate creativity and problem-solving. This ‘pressure-positive culture’ empowers teams to thrive under challenging circumstan…
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Capitalizing on the Rise of the Builders
Hackathons ignite creativity! Learn how they empower employees & drive innovation in the “Rise of the Builders” era. #GartnerTrends
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Mastering The Art Of The Ask: Crafting Challenges For Real Solutions
In the evolving realm of innovation, the proficiency to articulate a challenge effectively can be the linchpin between ground-breaking solutions and a deluge of impractical ideas. It’s not just about asking…
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Navigating The Tech Trends Deluge: A Guide For 2024 Innovation Leaders
In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, the end of the year brings a flood of predictions and prognostications about the top tech trends that will shape the coming year. As innovation leaders, you’re n…
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Maximizing Post-Hackathon Success: A Guide for Companies
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, organizations are seeking collaborative approaches to drive innovation. The benefits of which are established and range from risk reduction, increased produc…
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The Power Of A Safe Space For Innovation: Unlocking Growth And Creativity
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, innovation has become the lifeblood of an organization’s success. It is no longer a “nice to have” but a requirement for relevance and sustained growth.
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Creating Mission Advantage through Client Co-Innovation
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, organizations are seeking collaborative approaches to drive innovation. The benefits of which are established and range from risk reduction, increased produc…
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3 Important Things Corporate Innovators Can Learn from the Hip, Hack, Array! Hackathon Winners
Lil & Hanni won Hackworks’ Hip, Hack, ! hackathon in 2021. Since then, the two innovators have launched their submission as a Google Chrome extension. What can corporate innovators learn from their success?
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Striving for a Sustainable Future Through Cisco Technologies
Striving for a Sustainable Future through Cisco’s Digital Sustainability Challenge Is your company looking to integrate technology to stakeholders or partners in effort to achieve set objectives? Not sure th…
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17 Innovation Program Micro Case Studies to Inspire your 2023 Plans
Do your 2023 plans include a Hackathon, Innovation Challenge or Ideation Sprint? They should.
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5 Benefits of a Hackathon
Turning Hackathon Ideas into Results If your company has been looking for ways to increase corporate innovation, you may have come across a solution called a hackathon. What is a hackathon? They
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Becoming an Expert Hackathon Organizer according to Chat GPT
Including AI into the hackathon organizer conversation ChatGPT is all the rage at the moment, with people asking it to do their homework, answering their emails and likely much, much more. So we asked it wha…
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The Highly Effective Capital One Digital for Good Program
Technology is advancing at a rapid pace but many are being left behind. Learn how Capital One used the Digital for Good Program to make charities and nonprofits a more powerful force.
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TD Bank Think Digital Tech Jam
There is a growing digital curiosity among TD employees and a desire for technology tools, apps and solutions that will enable them to complete day to day tasks easier, faster or in a manner more reflective…
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Generating Client and Market Driven Solutions
Improving Client Relationships: FIS Thinkathon, Hackathon and Conference Customer experience is the next competitive battleground. Taking a customer-led approach to innovation allows brands to achieve more w…
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Engaging Employees Through New Technologies
Cisco’s Latest Technology – APIClarity Is your company looking to introduce new technologies into the organization? Are you unsure of how to navigate the integration with employees? How will they adopt the n…
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What is a Hackathon?
All you need to know about the purpose of a hackathon, the benefits and how to plan one.
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From Pause, to Pivot, to Progress
Continuing the Progress in 2021 In our first blog of 2021, we are looking ahead to what this year brings. Looking ahead
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Looking Back on 2020
Reflecting on 2020 Looking back on 2020 feels like looking back over a decade. Despite the dramatic effects of the pandemic on
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Hackworks CEO featured in Innovation Leader
CEO Patti Mikula makes her mark in Innovation Leader Twice a year Innovation Leader publishes a selection of the most useful and compelling expert
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Men need Mental Health support, now mo than ever
Searching for Better: Movember Canada and Men’s Mental Health A look back at charity partner Movember Canada raising awareness for men’s mental health issues,
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Hack to Hire
The Newest Approach to Fight the Great Resignation Companies are increasingly finding their fortunes – and futures – tied to their ability to
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Mental Health at Hackathons
Hackworks & Mental Health Awareness Hackathons began as caffeine-fuelled, pizza-powered, bro-coder events where developers raced against the clock and their competitors to make
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Corporate Hackathons in a Pandemic
A Time to Pivot: Corporate Hackathons in a Pandemic Year over year, we see hackathons and innovation challenges playing a growing role in the innovation strategies
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Solve for X – Supporting women as they rise to challenges of COVID
Solve for X: Crowdsourcing to Supporting Women As we adjust to life during the COVID-19 pandemic and are taking urgent steps to protect our health and the people we love, it is
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Planning for Normal: 4 Critical Questions to ask Yourself
Planning for Life past the Pandemic In the initial days and weeks of this global pandemic we were focused on the urgent, immediate, needs – the health and safety of our team members and their families
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What’s the Hackathon Secret Sauce?
Hackathons Provide Innovation Solutions On August 23rd, Capital One Canada and Hackworks launched Gift the Code, a hackathon with the aim of helping six Toronto charities enhance their technical ability to o…
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You’re probably wasting your most valuable resource
The Overlooked Corporate Resource to Capitalize On There are many factors that go into developing and sustaining a successful company. The great thing is that every company has the most overlooked corporate…
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Shape the future instead of reacting to it
Exploring the Future of Innovation In our previous blog post, Innovation is not a Buzzword, we made the argument that innovation is a necessary endeavour for an organization or company’s continued relevance…
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Innovation is not a Buzzword
In March of 2013, The Onion, a satire news organization, published a mock article with the title, “Word ‘Innovate’ Said 650,000 Times at SXSW So Far.” It was a comical and apt observation of what can be desc…
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Hackworks Launch
Today we are officially launching Hackworks. While this may be the company’s public debut, Hackworks has actually been germinating and growing for over four years inside XMG Studio, and we didn’t even realiz…
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