Crowdsourcing ADB Expertise Locator from ADB Employees

Create a collaborative employee network to help connect ADB Employees!

This challenge is open to ADB employees including staff, consultants and interns.
ADB teams cannot be mixed with external participants to apply to this challenge.

Create a collaborative employee network to help connect ADB Employees!

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that businesses must continue to innovate their operations to become more agile in the face of crises. As the traditional office space has largely transformed from a physical to a digital domain, it is vital for ADB to develop its online networks and communities in order to continue responding to project, initiative, and operational needs effectively in a timely manner. 

A collaborative employee network will help ADB efficiently leverage its employees’ capabilities, knowledge, and expertise to drive success across its numerous functional, hierarchical, geographical, and operational units. ADB’s existing employee directory ("People Finder") provides departmental listings and basic data such as name, position, and contact information. There are other platforms like MyCareer, Career and Employment System (ACES), Consultancy Management System (CMS) and Yammer which contain different sets of information, and used for different purposes. 

If these directories can be digitally enhanced or integrated to include employee, experiences, past projects, and interests, we believe departments will be better equipped, to implement projects and initiatives, with the ability to quickly identify relevant experts in the organization and draw upon their knowledge and experiences to solve problems

Your mission is to find a digital solution that records comprehensive data (knowledge, expertise, experiences, interests, etc.) on ADB’s employees and contains tools to easily identify expertise within the bank and interact with each other that can enable effective collaboration between different departments or initiatives.

It can be an improvement of existing platform or development of a new platform with integration to the ADB systems.  

 

Feel free to click on the link below for more background information on the tools currently used by ADB and some areas of improvement to explore in your solution.



Timeline

  • Application
    Phase

    3 Jun - 8 Aug 2021

    Register and submit your Solution Pitch Deck!

  • Shortlisting
    Phase 1

    9 Aug - 13 Aug 2021

    The Top 10 Solutions will be shortlisted.

  • Mentoring 
    Phase

    16 Aug - 3 Sep 2021

    Connect with ADB experts to fine-tune your solutions.

  • Shortlisting
    Phase 2

    6 Sep - 17 Sep 2021

    The Top 4 Solutions will be shortlisted.

  • Final
    Pitching

    29-30 Sep 2021

    Finalists to pitch to the panelists.

 

What's in it for you?

  • Possibility to receive seed funding of up to USD 10,000 to implement the pilot by hiring consultants
  • a participation certificate from ADB and recognition as an Innovation Leader
  • free TEDx training on ideas sharing
  • Making Expertise Locator as an Innovation project in the development goal in lign with “One ADB” effort