Innovation · Emerging tech

Innovation Ignition

A two-day corporate innovation course in which leaders solve their organization's real strategic challenges with emerging technologies, using challenge and technology cards.

  • 2 days
  • In person
  • Card game
  1. 01Real strategic challenges.
  2. 02Emerging tech, explained for everyone.
  3. 03Challenge cards meet technology cards.
  4. 04Solutions the organization can own.

The challenge

Large organizations want breakthrough innovation, but struggle to connect new technologies to their own strategic problems.

How it works

From challenge to solution in two days.

  1. Step 01

    Breakthrough innovation

    The ideas and cases behind breakthrough innovation.

  2. Step 02

    Challenge cards

    The organization's strategic challenges, framed as challenges, never as criticism.

  3. Step 03

    Technology cards

    Emerging technologies, explained so non-technical leaders understand them unaided.

  4. Step 04

    Build the solution

    Teams match challenges with technologies and shape solution concepts.

Frameworks behind it

Where it comes from.

  • Breakthrough InnovationAdapted from Rafael's course
  • Challenge and technology cardsRafael's own design

What participants leave with

Solutions tied to real challenges.

Teams leave with concepts built around their organization's own priorities.

  • Solution concepts for real strategic challenges
  • A shared map of relevant emerging technologies

Where it has run

Run with a bank's future leaders.

Delivered with IE University for the high-potential leadership program of a leading bank in Kuwait, face to face, in September 2026.

2days, face to face
IEdelivered with IE University

Bring Innovation Ignition to your organization.

Based in Madrid. Working across Latin America, Europe and the GCC, in English and Spanish.