NBC Innovation Challenge

WANT TO BE A PART OF SOMETHING BIG? YOUR MOMENT HAS ARRIVED.

Through the NBC Innovation Challenge, we are selecting and building a team that will lay the groundwork for creating a new era for our business – and maybe our entire industry – through crowdsourcing innovation!

Open to all full-time NBC Entertainment employees.

SHARE YOUR BRILLIANCE, CREATE OUR FUTURE

Step up for a chance to be a part of a brand-new NBC workshop that will develop and launch an exciting, new global crowdsourcing project that will set out to expand, reimagine, and maybe even reinvent the way NBC does business.

Think you have big ideas? We know you do. That’s why we want to hear from each and every one of you, no matter your department or level of experience.

Apply for the workshop, and unleash your most aggressively progressive, independent thinking. Share your capacity to break the rules, blaze a new trail, and imagine the impossible – and take our business to a far bigger, better, more cutting-edge place than anyone dreamed possible.

As many as 15 of the most creative, passionate, forward-thinking applicants will be chosen to attend our first-ever hands-on NBC Crowdsourcing Innovation Workshop. Led by HeroX, participants will craft an exciting and cutting-edge crowdsourcing project to take NBC and the industry into the next millennium.

Sound fun? Sound exciting? If so, we want to hear from you!

WHOs, HOWs & WHENs

Who: We want to hear from all interested NBC Entertainment full-time employees. That means every department and all levels of experience. All you need is an open mind and an innovative spirit.

How: Submit your application by Thursday, June 28th, 2017 @ 5 pm ET, and make sure to highlight why you are the perfect candidate. From storytellers and forward-thinkers to big-dreamers and visionary agents of change, tell us who you are.

What If You’re Chosen: If you are selected, you will attend a full day of interactive, engaging, and transformational brainstorming at NBC’s first-ever Crowdsourcing Innovation Workshop on Tuesday, August 1st, 2017 in Los Angeles.

It’s that simple.

Have five minutes? Get started now.

TO APPLY:

• Click ACCEPT CHALLENGE above to register on HeroX and begin your application.

• Leave a comment in the FORUM to join the conversation, ask questions or connect with other applicants.

WHAT IS CROWDSOURCING?

Essentially, crowdsourcing innovation is about translating a seemingly impossible, daunting problem into a competition where people want to compete to solve it. In short, it’s about asking the right question of others. Framed in a powerful way, the question becomes the key motivating factor for innovators (competitors) to want to solve your problem and create a breakthrough. Learn more about crowdsourcing.

WHAT IS HEROX?

HeroX is the premier company in the practice of crowdsourcing innovation. Founded in 2013, HeroX exists at the intersection of crowdsourcing, competition, and collaboration. The HeroX crowdsourcing platform brings together global communities of problem solvers to deliver breakthrough solutions to social, economic, and strategic challenges.

THE PRIZE

We will select up to 15 eligible candidates to participate in an exclusive full-day Crowdsourcing Innovation Workshop, Wednesday, September 6th, 2017 in Los Angeles, led by HeroX, the premier experts in crowdsourcing innovation. Participants will brainstorm how to use crowdsourcing to tackle and overcome our industry’s biggest challenges.

All travel, transportation, and food costs will be covered by NBC.

What is a Crowdsourcing Innovation Workshop

Essentially, crowdsourcing innovation is about translating a seemingly impossible, daunting problem into a competition where people want to compete to solve it. In short, it’s about asking the right question of others. Framed in a powerful way, the question becomes the key motivating factor for innovators (competitors) to want to solve your problem and create a breakthrough. Learn more about crowdsourcing.

NBC’s Crowdsourcing Innovation Workshop is a powerful way to see this in action. The session is spent using hands-on techniques and exercises to enable your problems to become initial Crowdsourcing Competition Concepts that can then be developed further into launched competitions. What may start out as an impossible problem will become a launching pad of possibility and excitement about the solutions that may result from a live challenge.

Workshop Goals: 

1. Introduce Participants to HeroX and Crowdsourcing:
   1. Using Crowdsourcing Competitions to identify new products, services, and solutions (product solutions)
   2. Using Crowdsourcing Competitions as a business tool for crowdsourcing solutions to internal challenges (business solutions)
2. Determine the 3-5 relevant Crowdsourcing Competition Concepts that can generate a solution to benefit the NBC community (internal and external)
3. Allow NBC to circulate Crowdsourcing Competition Concepts and to determine which to pursue further for NBC crowdsourcing initiatives(s)

Tentative Agenda

HOW DO I GET SELECTED?

We are seeking big thinkers, social advocates, tinkerers, innovators and empathetic leaders who are excited to get their hands dirty, diving into a problem, participate in deep research, talk to experts and inventors, and then talk to them again. You are eager to debate, learn, analyze, create, and work closely with other team members. You understand how to set audacious goals and you see your way through an impossible problem.

You have the drive to change the world. You’re audacious – some might call you obsessed – and forever in pursuit of the most cutting-edge information and technology to help bring about innovation.

Now, imagine being equipped with a team and sponsorship to give your vision a voice.

Want to know how we’ll be reviewing candidates? Take a look at the scorecard below.

Applicants must be available to attend an innovation workshop in Los Angeles on Wednesday, September 6th, 2017.

TIMELINE

Open to Submissions        Monday, July 10th, 2017 @ 9 am ET

Submission Deadline         Friday, July 28th, 2017 @ 11:59 pm ET

Judging                              Monday, July 31st to Friday, August 11th, 2017

Winners Announced          Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

Workshop                          Wednesday, September 6th, 2017

RULES

Participation Eligibility:

All submissions must be made by NBC Entertainment full-time staff employees.

To be eligible to compete, you must comply with all the terms of the challenge as defined in the Challenge-Specific Agreement.

Registration and Submissions:

Submissions must be made online (only), via upload to the HeroX.com website, on or before Friday, July  28th at 11:59 pm ET. No late submissions will be accepted.

Selection of Winners:

Based on the winning criteria, prizes will be awarded per the Judging Criteria section above. In the case of a tie, the winner(s) will be selected based on the highest votes from the Judges.

Judging Panel:

The determination of the winners will be made by NBC Entertainment

Additional Information

• By participating in the challenge, each competitor agrees to submit only their original idea. Any indication of "copying" amongst competitors is grounds for disqualification.
• All applications will go through a process of due diligence; any application found to be misrepresentative, plagiarized, or sharing an idea that is not their own will be automatically disqualified.
• All ineligible applicants will be automatically removed from the competition with no recourse or reimbursement.
• No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win the competition.
• Void wherever restricted or prohibited by law.

The Fine Print:

• Winning ideas may not be executed as presented—we reserve the right to alter ideas and implement at our discretion and over a long-term time frame.
• Any and all of the submitted ideas may be used at the discretion of NBC Entertainment (if, for example, an idea does not win, we still reserve the right to use it).
• You must still be a current full-time employee of NBC Entertainment at the time of the September 6th Innovation Workshop.
• You acknowledge that other participants may enter the same idea or a similar idea – we reserve the right to use either, both, or none.