Eureka Case 30 min Undergrad

The Labs48 Question

You are Lorena Echeverri-Sansegundo, 39, VP People & Innovation at Inteligo Cloud, a Madrid-based enterprise-SaaS scale-up. You launched Labs48 three years ago. The fourth cohort opens in nine weeks and you owe the CEO a redesign by Friday.

The situation

Inteligo Cloud sells vertical ERP to mid-market European manufacturers. 480 employees. €72M ARR. Series D closed last September at a €640M post. Labs48 is the firm's intrapreneurship program: a 48-hour hackathon, followed by an 8-week incubation runway, with engineering credits and exec mentorship for the winners. Three cohorts have completed.

Last Tuesday, Pablo Gómez-Trujillo — the engineer whose project won Cohort 3 — handed in his resignation. He's raising €1.8M of seed funding to build the same idea independently. He is the third Labs48 winner to leave for an external founding role in eighteen months. Marc, your CEO, asked the question over coffee on Wednesday: "Are we running an innovation program or a pipeline for our competitors?"

Your job in this case: read what the three completed cohorts actually produced, model the retention levers the board has authorised, and commit to a Cohort 4 design. The next cohort starts October 14. If the design isn't credible to Pablo's former teammates, the program is dead.

The decision

What shape is Cohort 4?

  • A · Pay up
  • B · Role-pivot guarantee
  • C · Pivot + spin-out hybrid

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