Challenging its employees to solve a problem in 48 hours: that’s the hackathon, a marathon that used to be reserved for workers in computing firms. More and more managers from all industries are interested in this concept and thinking about using this method with all their employees in order to mobilize them for any subject.
“Let’s introduce HR to ‘hackathons’” was the call Catherine Rush, head of talent for technology at multi-channel media company dmg media, launched in recent weeks. She believes that this HR practice, very popular in computing firms, has qualities that go beyond the virtual sphere. Initially however, it really was reserved for coding pros. Indeed, the point was to set a difficult task for developers, who train teams for the occasion (virtually or in situ) and do everything they can to propose
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