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CASE STUDY: LUMINA FOUNDATION. CHALLENGE SPECS. CHALLENGE. Quantified Work Challenge. DISCIPLINES. Environment, Data, No
CASE STUDY: LUMINA FOUNDATION Lumina Foundation engaged with InnoCentive to create Challenges that would stimulate new approaches to help modernize the U.S. higher education system, that would ultimately meet the needs of the future workplace.

CHALLENGE SPECS CHALLENGE Quantified Work Challenge

DISCIPLINES Environment, Data, Non-Profit

Challenge • •



Lumina Foundation’s mission is to build a higher education system in the U.S. that is fit for the challenges of 21st-century life. With many companies trying to understand what the employee of the future will look like, and young individuals facing the pressures of a globalized workforce, many have a stake in modernizing the education system and its interface with working life. In the “Quantified Work Challenge”, Lumina asked solvers to find innovative ways to track “career health” through personal data.

CHALLENGE AWARD $10,000

SOLVERS ENGAGED 604

SOLUTIONS 88

Solutions • • •

PROJECT DURATION 99 days

The winner, Paul Dwayne, proposed a method for automatic skills assessment, based on social network analysis. In a similar way to Google’s Page Rank algorithm, the method harnesses the collective intelligence that people have about themselves, through analysing key words in emails. The system assists identification of high performers, and delivers personalized learning recommendations, while also being industryagnostic, and not placing any additional burden on company operations.

Result • • •

Several of the solutions are viable, implementable and potentially attractive to large organizations. The high profile of the challenge, with the help of its exposure at The Economist’s Human Potential Forum, drew attention to Lumina Foundation’s mission and the underlying issue. The challenge spurred innovators to come forward with ideas, and also mobilized entrepreneurs to become actors for change in this field.

GLOBAL SOLVER PARTICIPATION

“I found an experienced crowdsourcing partner with 3Ps: platform, people and process.” Kiko Suarez, VP, Lumina Foundation

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