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BMI Hackathon

Your way to new business ideas - fast and simple

Problem seeks solution?

How to generate ideas in a fast way?

Through our Business Model Hackathon, you will come up with an incredibly large amount of ideas for new business in a very short time. This is an optimal starting point for you to create a balanced portfolio within your organization. We support you with leading methods for rapid idea generation and subsequently offer you a variety of opportunities to validate your ideas in a structured way.

Innovation idea generation

What is the difference between a Hackathon and a BMI Hackathon?

The traditional hackathon is an event which is well adapted to the needs of tech companies and its participants, which are usually programmers. They collaborate intensively on (software) projects. The goal of a hackathon is to create usable (software) products. Final result: Demo a product.

The intention of a business model innovation hackathon is to generate better business ideas addressing major strategic opportunities. During the hackathon, teams create and develop ideas for strategically-relevant business models and formulate hypotheses about potential customer segments, associated value propositions, and all related elements of the intended business model. Final result: Demo a business opportunity.

The benefits of a Hackathon are…

Saving time in ideation as the hackathon is limited to 2 days

Generating more and better ideas

Selecting the most promising ideas in a creative framework

What you will get

In our Business Model Innovation Hackathon we will...

  • Generate better business ideas that target key strategic opportunities
  • Challenge teams to "get out of the building" to test ideas in the real world and with real customers
  • Coach the teams to incorporate the insights from the interviews into their business model and adapt accordingly
  • Prepare the final ideas for validation