Corporate Innovation Pilot Design for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Audit year-1: review the 14 pilots' charters, outcomes, and sponsor commitment. Identify the structural failures (likely: no sponsor with budget ownership, no scale-up criteria defined up-front, IT/security gates discovered late, pilot KPIs disconnected from BU P&L). Redesign the program: 4-stage pilot framework (Frame, Build, Validate, Scale) with explicit gates and sponsor-buyback at every stage. Propose 3 pilots aligned to EV-platform strategy: battery-supply-chain visibility, AI-assisted line-rebalancing, sustainability-reporting automation. Each pilot has charter, sponsor, success criteria, scale-up path. Deliver: year-1 diagnostic, redesigned program playbook (12 pages), 3 pilot charters, board readout deck.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Redesign a corporate-innovation pilot program that converts pilots into production deployments, with 3 EV-strategy-aligned pilots ready for year 2.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Diagnose corporate-innovation program failures with evidence
- Design pilot-to-production gates that prevent innovation theatre
- Tie pilot KPIs to business-unit P&L for executive buy-in
- Communicate program redesign to corporate executive committees
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
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Careers
Roles this prepares you for.
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Product Manager
PMs at industrial companies who can author pilot charters tied to BU P&L become the rare hires that connect R&D and operating-unit roadmaps.
This challenge sharpens
- innovation-management
- pilot-program-design
- go-to-market