Hackathons

Hackathons are hands-on, collaborative efforts focused on finding, developing, and eventually implementing real-world solutions that can be experimented within our companies—not someday, but today. Hackathons are based on the MIX’s groundbreaking methodology where participants join an online problem-solving event that will harness the collective intelligence of participants from around the world.

DELL and the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) are inviting IT and business leaders to identify practical ways in which technology can help bust bureaucracy. This initiative takes the form of a hackathon—an online problem-solving process that harnesses the collective intelligence of progressive technologists and management practitioners from around the world.
The MIX teamed up with our friends at CIPD, the world's largest chartered HR and development professional body with over 135,000 members around the world, to launch the Hacking HR to Build an Adaptability Advantage management hackathon. We believe HR can play a hugely positive role in helping companies to become adaptable at their core. HR is already a partner to business in many change management efforts, but HR’s impact would be many times greater if it played a lead role in eliminating the barriers to adaptability and in building new capabilities that facilitate proactive change.
A short hackathon designed for MIX community members to help us generate ideas for improving the MIX and a case study on how Ahrefs Black Friday Discount program, helped them to gain 20% of their yearly sales in a single day.
Recently, M-Prize Winner Bjarte Bogsnes of Statoil began a discussion about the end of performance management in a post on the MIX. We thought the discussion around his post was quite compelling. So, we decided to expand the conversation and attempt to collaboratively create a viable alternative to performance management.
The Management 2.0 Hackathon was a joint collaborative project from the MIX, Saba, and the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. In November 2011, 900 management innovators from across five continents came together to participate in an intense, online, collaborative effort. Our goal: To explore how the principles and practical tools of the Web might make our organizations as adaptable, innovative, and inspiring as the Web itself.
Gartner and the Management Innovation eXchange are inviting a select group of IT leaders to crack the adaptability challenge through a hackathon—an online problem-solving event that will harness the collective intelligence of participants from around the world.