The Solver’s Edge

Aadhithya Sujith, a Solver: Open innovation leverages the power of the crowd to come up with solutions not thought before

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Hello solvers,

Welcome to The Solvers Edge Podcast, the podcast that takes you on a journey of why, how, and when does open innovation matter.

I’m your host, Iliriana Kacaniku and today I have the pleasure of introducing you to Aadhythya Sujith, an avid solver of open innovation challenges.  My co-host Mentor Dida had the pleasure of interviewing this mechanical engineer who he has won over 50 open innovation challenges to date.  He is a triple winner of a single challenge with three simultaneous tracks. With the award he won from one of the challenges, Aadhithya started his own listing portal to make open innovation opportunities accessible to all. His platform, Givemechallenge.com, brings numerous ideation and design challenges from multiple platforms in a single place.

Being a passionate advocate of open innovation challenges, Aadhi shared two sets of recommendations that stood out for me:

To the solvers, he recommends:

  • Use open innovation challenges to build up your innovator brand and profile -  participating in open innovation challenges can enrich your professional profile tremendously. If you’re a student, and think that your resume is still a blank canvas, start painting it with colors from open innovation challenges. Along the way, you will grow your community of equally curious problem solvers with whom you may continue collaborating long after the challenge has completed.

    • To the seekers, Aadhi has two recommendations:

    • Use open innovation to learn what problems will the likely overlooked talent help you solve -  These challenges will engage exceptionally smart people who would not have made it to the formal recruiting process because they may not have formal education at all, they may have dropped out, or they may even  be refugees with no credential proofs to show.  I’ve been a refugee myself, and trust me, the last thing you think of bringing with you when running for life is your college or any diploma.
    • Use open innovation to get a glimpse of overlooked consumer trends and pain points - as you open up the innovation process you will unlock many more related problems, challenges, consumer trends, or consumer pain points.

      • What about you? What stood out for you?  Feel free to share your key takeaways with us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you.   In the interim, follow us on Spotify, or Apple Podcast, or Google Podcast and subscribe to our newsletter so you do not miss out on our next episodes.

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