Problem-Solving Hackathons

ROI-driven company-wide problem-solving! Ensuring hackathons have ROI and drive the business forward

Problem-Solving Hackathons
Broken Down For You

Problem-Solving Hackathons More Than Just Creating Loads Of Ideas That Never See The Light Of Day

The What?
1. Define: Problem Scoping Session - Define the problems, prioritise and

2. Hackathon Day: A problem-solving hackathon day

3. 3-Day Delivery Package: Comes with required 3-day supporting consultancy to ensure your solutions from the hackathon actually get into the hands of your customers.

The Why?

  • Most businesses struggle to come together around their core issues

  • This impacts how hackathons are seen and most hackathons fail to click and fail to build product features their customers would benefit from.

  • This all means problems are solved, they just become highlighted and never make it through other forms of prioritisation or stack ranking exercises = all leaving the problem to continue

The How:

  • The hackathon package is designed to help your business not just create more ideas, but important how to deliver on internal and external customer problems.

  • I ran a 3 phase process, from (1) pre-hackathon to (2) the hackathon to (3) post-hackathon delivery phase with reporting

  • In a result-driven business world, ROI has to be proven even with company culture-boosting events and below is how you prove ROI from hackathons.

The 6 steps to the hackathon success:

  1. Pre-Hackathon: Identifying your problems with you, score them and create the right day for the hackathon

  2. Hackathon

    1. Build: Help you and your teams to break into cross-functional groups

    2. Selection: Tackle one of the known problems with strict workstreams

  3. Post Hackathon: Guide the business to build a beta to demo, test internally & optimise

  4. Roadmap Build: Build a roadmap to launch, test and iterate so I can help and advise Product, Marketing and the other business units to deliver these workstreams

  5. Success Tracking: Select the KPIs and success metrics to track and optimise towards

  6. Reporting: Report on successes and how to optimise and then distribute the Product features and Marketing campaigns for continued successes.

Hear What Founder Ana Had To Say

Danny is a bottomless bucket of actionable ideas. I seriously don’t know how he has so many, on the spot, just bursting out of him! It’s probably to do with the extensive knowledge he has from working with such different and successful businesses. He thinks fresh, different, big, without boundaries. I am lucky to have him as an advisor.

— Ana Rachel Estrougo Founder @ Marketplace The Octopus Club - Advisory Client