Challenge Plan

Welcome to your co-creation challenge powered by Impact Lab!  The goal of the challenge plan is to maintain a fun and fruitful challenge process for all participants.

Challenge Overview

Define
Generate
Evaluate
Celebrate
Impact

Phase 1: Defining the challenge (2-3 weeks)

Properly defining the issues you want to tackle helps to ensure that the right community members are inspired and mobilized. We support your champion team to crystalize an attractive and concrete problem definition that will invite a diversity of insights.

Impact Lab 
  • Provides challenge description template and gives feedback on the final draft.
Champion Team
  • Writes challenge description, checks it with key internal stakeholders.
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Phase 2: Launch (8 weeks)

We will cast a wide net to involve as many relevant stakeholders as possible in co-creating promising insights to tackle your challenge. This phase is divided into ‘Generating a buzz‘ and ‘Engaging contributors’ sub-phases of the challenge to the wider community through the Impact Lab online platform.

Launch: Generating a buzz (2 weeks)

Impact Lab 
  • Verifies overall challenge plan, and prepares platform moderation and marketing plan.
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  • Recruits influencers, and contributors and distributes marketing materials including helping to facilitate a launch event.
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Champion Team
  • Recruits influencers, and contributors and distributes marketing materials
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Launch: Engaging contributors (4 weeks)

Impact Lab 
  • Distributes marketing materials, and moderates and facilitates new insights on the platform, including ‘brainstorm’ sessions.
Champion Team
  • Distributes marketing materials, and moderates new insights in the platform, including ‘brainstorm’ sessions..
Influencers
  • Gives feedback on insights in the platform on a weekly basis.
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Contributors
  • Shares insights, experiences, and relevant knowledge about the challenge theme with other contributors.
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Phase 3: Evaluating ideas (2-3 weeks)

All ideas generated in the platform are systematically assessed for the potential value they hold to tackle the challenge. Using defined evaluation criteria, evaluations are performed using the online evaluation tool provided by the Impact Lab platform.

Impact Lab 
  • Verifies evaluation plan, gives feedback on evaluation criteria, prepares evaluation tool, and assists evaluators to evaluate insights. 
Champion Team
  • Confirms final evaluation criteria, recruits evaluators, and evaluates ideas using an evaluation tool on the platform.
Influencers
  • Evaluates ideas using an evaluation tool on the platform.

Phase 4: Celebrate top ideas (3 weeks)

Some ideas are more valuable than others. Deciphering which one has the most potential for tackling a challenge is important! The goal of this phase is to generate community awareness and support for the most promising ideas.   

Impact Lab 
  • Communicates to top contributors their rewards and to all contributors the challenge results, and showcases top ideas.
Champion Team
  • Makes a selection of top ideas & showcases top ideas.
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Phase 5: Accelerating impact 

Even the best of ideas will require further development to meet the needs of the community and make an impact. Impact Lab offers several options for accelerating the impact of the most promising ideas. These options range from helping to facilitate individual mentoring to more extensive pilots in a local setting. The best option to develop top ideas further depends on the nature of the top ideas and the willingness and resources of the community network. Options for impact can best be determined once the evaluations of the challenge ideas are completed.

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