This guide explains how to design and run an open innovation challenge. It was written for project managers in local government, but it can serve as an implementation guide for anyone.
The guide:
- introduces the role of open innovation challenges in a local government context
- helps you decide whether a challenge will meet your purpose
- helps you make crucial decisions in designing your challenge
- sets out the basic steps of running a challenges
- identifies the resources you will need and the materials you will need to develop.
An open innovation challenge is a short exercise designed to stimulate new ideas, solutions and perspectives. It taps into the creativity and expertise of a community, and is based on the premise that the best answer to a problem will often come from outside an organisation, rather than from inside it.
