Design an Open Innovation Pilot for GlowUp Naturals
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Design an Open Innovation Pilot for GlowUp Naturals. Intermediate challenge in strategy. Developing strategies for real business problems, earn a blockchain-...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
How can GlowUp Naturals use open innovation with external partners to overcome its limited internal research-and-development capacity and accelerate new product development within a tight budget?
This is not a case study exercise. It is the work a consultant does when a client needs a recommendation backed by evidence. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates recite Porter's Five Forces and none who have built a recommendation a client would actually pay for.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Translate documented customer needs into prioritized external innovation targets
- Evaluate and select innovation partners against feasibility, fit, and risk criteria
- Design a lightweight intellectual-property and collaboration framework appropriate to a small company
- Integrate an external idea pipeline into an existing internal innovation process
- Communicate a strategic recommendation persuasively to a senior executive
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Open Innovation
Apply open innovation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Partner Scouting
Apply partner scouting to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Ip Management
Apply ip management to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Innovation Strategy
Apply innovation strategy to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Presentation
Apply presentation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Innovation Strategy Analyst
This challenge mirrors the analyst's core job: turning customer signals and company constraints into a defensible innovation roadmap, selecting external partners, and defending the recommendation to leadership under real budget limits.
This challenge sharpens
- open-innovation
- innovation-strategy
- partner-scouting
Partnerships Development Associate
Scouting candidate universities, startups, and suppliers, scoring them against fit and risk, and structuring collaboration terms is exactly what an early-career partnerships associate does when building a company's external ecosystem.
This challenge sharpens
- partner-scouting
- ip-management
- open-innovation
Management Consulting Analyst
Producing a feasible, budget-bound plan from a client brief and presenting a clear recommendation to a senior executive replicates the consulting analyst's day-to-day of structuring ambiguous problems and communicating them persuasively.
This challenge sharpens
- innovation-strategy
- presentation
- open-innovation