We’re back with the eighth season of L’Innovateur, a prestigious campus case challenge for India’s top nine business schools. As a key initiative of our E.L.I.T.E. General Management Program, this event is designed to push boundaries, inspire creativity, and offer students an authentic experience of solving real-world business problems.

About the Challenge: The goal of L’Innovateur is to give students a unique opportunity to leverage technology to address business challenges while experiencing the kind of work Capgemini specializes in and understanding what we look for in an E.L.I.T.E. candidate. Participants are tasked with crafting inventive and feasible solutions to pressing business challenges across a variety of industrial sectors.

Participants also stand a chance to earn Pre-Placement Interview (PPI) opportunities for Capgemini’s prestigious E.L.I.T.E. Management Trainee Program. This is a unique opportunity to begin your career with Capgemini, a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology, and engineering services.

As an “E.L.I.T.E. Management Trainee” one will embark on an intense 12-month journey that will both transform your career as well as make a significant impact to Capgemini’s business. We are looking for proactive, intelligent, innovative, articulate, and globally aware individuals who can solve key business challenges across a broad spectrum of roles and functions, all set against the backdrop of constant industry change.

Eligibility Criteria

• Open to second-year business school students from the top nine business schools in India.
• Students can apply in teams of three members, with all members belonging to the same institute.
• One individual cannot be a member of more than one participating team.
• After the first round, three teams from each institute will be shortlisted for the campus round.
• Top 9 teams across all campuses will advance to the grand finale.
• Details of the grand finale will be communicated to the shortlisted teams through their respective placement committees.

Eligible Institutes

• Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad
• Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
• Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta
• Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
• Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode
• Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore
• S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai
• Xavier School of Management (XLRI), Jamshedpur & Delhi
• Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi

Team Structure

• One person cannot be a member of more than one team.
• All the team members must be from the same institute, and they can be a mix of students from different specializations, i.e. cross-specialization teams are allowed.
• Leader of each team will need to register on Grad Partners website after having gone through all the rules and guidelines.

Submission Guidelines

• Fastrack Round: Teams are given a 12-hour window to submit their answers to the simulations. They must utilise this time not just to decode the logic but to influence the answers given by other teams in order to make their solutions competitive.
• Round 1: Teams need to select 1 case study and submit a 2 slide PowerPoint presentation outlining their understanding of the case and the proposed solution.
• Round 2: Submission should be detailed presentation of 5-6 slides excluding a cover slide (containing team details) along with a 3-4 minute video explaining the different dimensions of the case, the issue, their approach, research methodology and the innovation they are proposing.
• Please refer to below guidelines for video submissions:
  • The video must be in MP4 format and should not exceed 50 MB
  • Video should include both the solution as well as the presenter (as per this sample)
  • Few resources for video management: Conversion & Compression
• Any other supporting excel sheets, details etc. will need to be attached in the annexures.
• Only the Team Leader would be able to make the submissions. Please submit your files in this naming convention only: Leader's First Name_Team Name_Institute Name_Round X
• Submissions can be uploaded only in .ppt/.pptx/.pdf format. Please ensure that file size is less than 5 MB.
• Team leaders can change their submissions by clicking on Submission and then Change Submission, any time before the submission deadline.
• Please make your submissions well before the deadline to avoid any last-minute hassles.

Rewards & Recognition

• National Winner gets prize amount of ₹3,00,000
• National Runner-up gets prize amount of ₹2,25,000
• National Second Runner-up gets prize amount of ₹1,75,000
• Pre-Placement Interview (PPI) opportunities for national winners, runners-up, and exceptional candidates from other teams, subject to final placement criteria.

Terms and Conditions

Participants are required to go through the following Terms & Conditions before registering for the event:

• All decisions in matters of eligibility, authenticity & final judgments will be with Capgemini.
• The format, structure & timelines of events are subject to change before the actual beginning of the event or during the event.
• If a team fails to submit an entry before the timeline, Capgemini holds the right to disqualify the team from the competition.
• All decisions related to the event taken by Capgemini are final and no correspondence/ communication would be entertained from any entrant in this regard. Capgemini has the right to disqualify an entrant if it has reasonable grounds to believe that the entrant has breached any of the competition rules.