Competitions Week – RMA Case Comp

Last week was very heavy for case competitions and presentations (hence the lack of posts).

On Wednesday, we had the Rotman Marketing Case competition. The case was based on the Pan America (Pan Am) games, where we were asked to create a strategy for how to engage university students to participate in the Toronto 2015 games.

One key insight from our team was that the university students of 2015 are currently high school students, so we took a two pronged approach:

1. Engage high school students now and use their 40 hours of volunteering to instill a culture associated with sport based mentorship.
2. Create the university infrastructure that would allow these students to be received into such post-secondary institutions.

We proposed that as the system developed, this program could follow PanAm games host cities and was modeled similar to "Right to Play" and eventually leverage the Olympics brand to become international and increase the sense of legacy of the games beyond just physical infrastructure.

While we didn’t place in the competition, it was interesting to see what other teams pitched as it was a fairly open ended question and there were plenty of unique solutions proposed by the other groups.