Accenture Campus Innovation Challenge

The Accenture Campus Innovation Challenge is located within the project seminar of the master degree program International Management & Engineering (IWI) and provides a deeper understanding of how to develop a business solution in a real-life setting.

The topic of the challenge changes with each semester and realignes with current interests from business practice. Monthly workshops in collaboration with Accenture have in the past covered the following topics:

  • Developing a business case,
  • Innovation with design thinking,
  • Agile project management,
  • Financial assessment of business cases,
  • Presentation techniques.

The workshops take place in the summer term, wherein the students apply the gained knowledge to their own group business cases and finally present their solutions to a jury of Senior Accenture Managers. To sucessfully complete the seminar, the students must write a project thesis on the development and financial assessment of their business cases, additionally.

Accenture

Accenture is the worldwide leading consultancy agency for strategy, management consulting, digitalization, technology, outsourcing, and business transformation. Over 500,000 employees in 200 offices out of 56 countries are working at Accenture. More than 40% of their work focuses on digital transformation, whereby they serve 94 of the Fortune Global 100 and 3/4 of the Fortune Global 500.

Example projects from the last years

Generative AI (Summer Term 2024)

Ageing society (Summer Term 2023)

Augmented reality (Summer term 2022)

New work (summer term 2021)

Robotic process automation and artificial intelligence (summer term 2020)

Blockchain (summer term 2019)

Augmented reality and virtual reality (summer term 2018)