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Go-to-market, positioning, business modeling, growth — the work an exec asks for on a Monday.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Yield Management for a Boutique Hotel Chain
Your task is to create a yield management strategy for NordicStays. You will analyze historical booking data (provided) to identify demand patterns, price sensitivity, and booki…
- Yield Management
- Revenue Optimization
- Forecasting
Pricing and Revenue Management - StrategyIntermediateNew
Choose Between Microservices and Modular Monolith for a Scale-Up
Audit the codebase: lines of code per Rails engine, deploy frequency, change-coupling between engines (using git co-change analysis), per-engine on-call burden. Survey the 4 squ…
- Architecture Decision
- Team Topologies
- Modular Monolith
Software Architecture - StrategyBeginnerNew
Responsible AI Policy for a HR-Tech Scale-up
Working as a cross-functional team, produce a Responsible AI Policy that addresses: permitted/prohibited use cases, human oversight requirements, data minimization, vendor due d…
- Ai Usage Policy
- Ai Governance Frameworks
- Stakeholder Management
AI, Ethics and Society - StrategyBeginnerNew
Go-to-Market Strategy for a Munich D2C Cosmetics Brand
As a marketing consultant for Glow Naturals, develop a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for their new 'Zero-Waste Serum' line. The budget is €500k for the first year. Success…
- Go To Market Strategy
- Customer Segmentation
- Brand Positioning
Marketing (MBA) Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Migrate a Local-Government Records System from MySQL to PostgreSQL
Audit the MySQL schema (around 60 tables) for incompatibilities (case-folding identifiers, ENUM types, TIMESTAMP semantics, character sets). Plan a migration using pgloader for …
- Database Migration
- Postgresql Or Mysql
- Postgresql Or Mysql
Introduction to Database Systems - StrategyIntermediateNew
CMMI Level 3 Process-Improvement Roadmap for a Defense Subcontractor
Read the company's current process documentation + recent CMMI Level 2 appraisal report. Run a gap analysis against the 11 additional Level 3 process areas (Requirements Develop…
- Cmmi
- Process Improvement
- Process Models
Software Quality and Process Improvement - StrategyFoundationalNew
Digital Revenue Model Canvas for a D2C Fashion Startup
Using the Business Model Canvas framework, analyze the transition from B2B wholesale to D2C e-commerce. Interview the provided stakeholder personas, map the current vs. target b…
- Digital Business Models
- Business Administration
- Online Marketing
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Spin-Out Strategy for a Robotics Lab's Warehouse Picking IP
Map each path: (1) OEM licensing (model royalty terms, time-to-deal, IP protection); (2) founder-led startup (cap table, hiring needs, fundraising path, 18-month milestones); (3…
- Venture Building
- Research To Product
- Strategic Options Analysis
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Product Manager
Ship product that solves real user problems. Combine user research, prototyping, and stakeholder alignment to turn ambiguous briefs into measurable wins — the role at the centre of modern software teams.
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Sustainable Maintainership Model for a Mid-Tier OSS Project
Read the project's last 12 months of issues, PRs, and Discord/Slack archives (anonymized). Identify: top maintainer-burnout signals, the 5 highest-friction issue categories, and…
- Governance Models
- Maintainership
- Issue Triage
Open Source Contribution and Maintainership - StrategyIntermediateNew
Corporate Innovation Pilot Design for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Audit year-1: review the 14 pilots' charters, outcomes, and sponsor commitment. Identify the structural failures (likely: no sponsor with budget ownership, no scale-up criteria …
- Innovation Management
- Pilot Program Design
- Stakeholder Communication
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - StrategyIntermediateNew
Change Management for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up Moving to Enterprise
Assess the current organizational culture using a provided survey (simulated data) and identify potential sources of resistance using Kotter's 8-Step Model or ADKAR. Design a 3-…
- Change Management
- Organizational Culture
- Resistance Management
Business and Industrial Psychology - StrategyBeginnerNew
Build a Pricing-and-Packaging Proposal for a Developer-Tools Startup
Analyze the current 80 customers (anonymized export provided: usage by metric, plan, MRR, churn risk). Pick a value-metric tied to customer-visible value (likely: monitored serv…
- Pricing Strategy & Elasticity
- Model Packaging
- Three Statement Modeling
Product Management for Software Engineers Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Diversification Strategy for a Nairobi D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to conduct a portfolio analysis using the BCG matrix or a similar tool, evaluate at least three diversification options using criteria such as market growth, synerg…
- Portfolio Analysis
- Market Research
- Strategic Thinking
Corporate Strategy - StrategyBeginnerNew
Estimate and Schedule a 16-Week Custom CRM for an Agency Client
Read the 22-page SOW (statement of work). Decompose into a 3-level work-breakdown structure (~80-110 leaf tasks). Estimate each leaf using 3-point (optimistic/most-likely/pessim…
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Work Breakdown Structure
Software Project Management - StrategyIntermediateNew
Rebuilding Trust After a Toxic Culture Scandal
Your task is to produce a comprehensive culture transformation proposal. Success means presenting a plan that addresses psychological safety, leadership accountability, and incl…
- Organizational Culture Diagnosis
- Change Management
- Employee Engagement
Organizational Behavior (Graduate) - StrategyIntermediateNew
Regulatory Strategy for a Fintech Scale-Up in India
You are a team of two regulatory analysts at PayBridge. Your task is to: (1) assess the impact of the new RBI guidelines on PayBridge's current operations, (2) develop a complia…
- Regulatory Compliance
- Public Policy
- Stakeholder Management
Business, Government and Society - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build a Business Case for a Hardware-Software Bundle at an IoT Vendor
Build a 5-year financial model (Excel or Google Sheets) covering 3 scenarios: hardware-only, SaaS-only, bundled-per-asset. Account for hardware-revenue recognition (upfront vs a…
- Business Case
- Three Statement Modeling
- Pricing Strategy & Elasticity
Product Management for Software Engineers - StrategyIntermediateNew
Recover a Red-RAG Enterprise Implementation Mid-Flight
Pull 7 months of project artifacts (Jira, status reports, change requests, meeting minutes, time-tracking). Interview 6 people across the delivery team + 3 from the client side.…
- Project Recovery
- Estimation
- Scope Management
Software Project Management - StrategyBeginnerNew
Maintenance Plan for a Donated NGO Web Platform
Run an inventory: dependencies (with known-CVE check), secret exposure, test coverage, deploy process, observability, and on-call. Author a 12-month maintenance plan covering pr…
- Software Maintenance
- Dependency Management
- Security Hardening
Software Engineering Foundations - StrategyBeginnerNew
Governance Overhaul for a São Paulo D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to draft a shareholders' agreement and propose a board structure for the startup. You must address voting rights, board composition, director duties, and conflict r…
- Corporate Governance
- Shareholders Agreement
- Gmbh Law
Company and Corporate Law - StrategyIntermediateNew
Build a 3-Year IT Strategy for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Inventory the current IT estate from anonymized exports (CMDB extract, license registry, 4 plant CIO interviews, last 18 months of incident data). Identify 5 strategic themes (l…
- It Strategy
- It Governance
- Business It Alignment
IT Management and Governance - StrategyBeginnerNew
Set Up Trunk-Based Development on a 3-Branch Workflow
Audit the current branch + merge data over 8 weeks (frequency, conflict count, time-to-green). Pick one product team for a 4-week pilot: introduce a feature-flag system (Unleash…
- Version Control
- Trunk Based Development
- Feature Flags
Software Construction - StrategyBeginnerNew
Transforming an Austin D2C Cosmetics Startup for B2B Expansion
Your task is to develop a comprehensive change management plan for Glow Naturals. The plan must include a diagnostic of the current organizational culture, a change strategy usi…
- Change Management
- Organizational Development
- Kotter Model
Leading Change and Organizational Development - StrategyBeginnerNew
Digital Transformation for a Barcelona D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to create a 12-month digital transformation roadmap for the startup. You must analyze current digital maturity, propose specific technologies (e.g., Shopify Plus, K…
- Tech Enabled Business Transformation
- Omnichannel Strategy
- Change Management
Digital Transformation
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