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August 19, 2009

Welcome to the RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge 2009/10!

Welcome! For those of you that have followed, supported and participated in the RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge over the past 3 years, Welcome Back! For those who are finding out about the Challenge for the first time, Welcome and thanks for joining us! I can’t believe I’m writing my kick off blog entry for the Challenge for the 3rd time. It’s really great to be here again, inaugurating what we hope will be another outstanding year of results for this program. There are lots of reasons why the Challenge program is the most enjoyable thing I get to work on for Applied Innovation at RBC. The students, their energy and ideas, the things we can try in the Challenge platform and the way the ideas impact the bank are all top of the list. I’ll try and talk about all of those things and more this year in the blog.

What’s coming?

This year we have an exciting new theme which will be announced with the Challenge question in September. People across RBC are already excited to see what the students propose! We’ll be adding new content to the website to help you innovate in the challenge and hopefully beyond. We’ve already added a few new features, including custom alerts widget so you can stay updated online. We’ve reformatted our highlights gallery so you can get a good feel for previous competitions. We’re on twitter and friendfeed too!

And….. PREEEESENTING….. (DRUMROLL PLEASE!)

The new RBC INNOVATION MINI CHALLENGE!

The RBC Innovation Mini Challenge is our way of extending the Challenge and helping you warm up for the Main Challenge question. Innovation can have BIG impact, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. We thought why not take what we’ve learned from the Main Challenge and make a short, sweet and easy to enter Mini Challenge that more students can try out? We’ve chosen Social Innovation as our first theme, something that we (on the Applied Innovation team and our peers in the RBC Foundation) are very interested in. We want students of all types to team up and tell Canada how to create more Social Innovation through Collaboration. You can team up and register right away, and I’ll be blogging to help guide you to a great proposal. Check out the Innovation Mini Challenge details and tell your friends!

Posted by Tim on August 19, 2009 10:59 AM | Comments (0)