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Stakeholder Management & Influence Challenges
Stakeholder Management & Influence challenges put you in the room where decisions get made across teams. You'll develop skills in Active Listening, Stakeholder Communication, and Stakeholder Mapping, run Cross-functional collaboration, and clarify ownership with RACI Charts.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — Influence without authority, Conflict Awareness, Multi-party negotiation, and Structured negotiation (BATNA) — practicing real Stakeholder management the way effective operators do. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Non-Market Strategy for Boston D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a junior strategy consultant hired by Glow Naturals. Your task is to develop a non-market strategy that includes: (1) a stakeholder mapping and engagement plan, (2) a po…
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Public Policy
- Non Market Strategy
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Postmortem and Action-Item Tracking for a 3-Service Outage
Re-write the existing postmortem using the Google SRE blameless format: timeline (anchored to UTC), what went well, what went poorly, where we got lucky, action items (S.M.A.R.T…
- Postmortems
- Blameless Culture
- Action Item Tracking
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Lead a Coordinated AI Feature Launch for an HR Software Startup
Using the company background brief and the draft feature specification provided, design a six-week launch plan covering four parallel workstreams: product readiness (acceptance …
- Product Launch
- Cross Functional Coordination
- Go To Market
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Assess ESG Integration in a Family Office Portfolio
Analyze the current portfolio's ESG ratings using MSCI or Sustainalytics data (provided). Identify sectors with high carbon footprint and poor social scores. Recommend a new ass…
- ESG Integration
- Portfolio Optimization
- Impact Measurement
Wealth Management 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
- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Versioning Strategy for a Public REST API
Receive the OpenAPI spec for the 14 endpoints, 8 months of partner-support tickets tagged 'breaking-change', and the partner-mix breakdown (which endpoints which partner uses). …
- API Design
- REST
- API Versioning
API Design and GraphQL - DesignBeginnerNew
Validate a Signed Construction-Permits Requirements Document
Using the requirements excerpt (req-doc-excerpt), the anonymized permits dataset (permits-dataset), and the intake notes from the first case-handler session (intake-notes), conv…
- Requirements Validation
- Executable Scenarios
- Gherkin
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Field Investigation: Scoping a Siemens Energy Green Hydrogen Venture
Work only from the three provided materials. Start by reading the Siemens Energy strategy corpus (item: siemens-strategy-corpus) and the internal venture committee brief (item: …
- Business Model Canvas
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Corporate Venturing
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Write a Product Strategy for an AI-Native Customer-Support Startup
Conduct desk research on the customer-support automation market (TAM, growth rate, competitor landscape — Zendesk, Intercom, the new AI-native cohort like Decagon and Sierra). I…
- Product Strategy
- Market Analysis
- Positioning
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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
Negotiate a Technical-Debt Paydown Budget Into the Roadmap
Using the engineering debt case file, build a debt-paydown budgeting framework that fits the sprint cadence and committed work shown in the roadmap snapshot. For each of the thr…
- Technical Debt
- Stakeholder Communication
- Refactoring Budgets
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Field-Map Enterprise Risk for TaskFlow's First Fortune 500 Deal
Work only from the three provided materials: the TaskFlow company dossier (case-file), the official GDPR text, and the public Verizon VERIS Community Database of disclosed secur…
- Risk Management
- Compliance
- Agile Methodologies
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Draft GDPR + AI Act Data Provisions for a Training-Data Vendor
Anchor the work on (1) GDPR Articles 28 (processor obligations) and 32 (security), (2) the EU AI Regulation's data-governance article for high-risk systems, and (3) the EDPB's p…
- Data Protection Law
- Contract Redlining
- Regulatory Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Rebuild a Bank's Requirements Baseline for Audit Defense
Working only from the program case file, the current 400-entry requirements spreadsheet, and the auditor's findings note provided to you, produce a judgment and a working baseli…
- Requirements Management
- Traceability
- Governance
Open coursework Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Frame an AI Opportunity for a Mid-Cap Insurance Carrier
You receive: line-of-business P&Ls, customer-journey maps, and a list of 18 candidate AI initiatives the operating teams have proposed over the last year. Score each candidate o…
- Ai Strategy
- Opportunity Scanning
- RICE Prioritization
AI for Business and AI Product Management - AnalysisIntermediateNew
TCP Congestion Control Comparison on a Long-Fat Network
Set up two Linux test hosts in Sydney + Frankfurt cloud regions (or one host pair with tc-netem emulating 280ms RTT). Run iperf3 transfers using CUBIC and BBR at 4 loss rates (0…
- Tcp Ip
- Congestion Control
- Performance Testing
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Farm-to-Garment Traceability System for GreenWeave Cotton
Working only from the materials provided, build a feasible traceability design for GreenWeave. Read the batch case file (M1) to trace how one organic cotton lot moved through fa…
- Blockchain
- Supply Chain
- Tokenization
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Privacy-by-Design Review for a Smart-City Data Platform
Map the new module's end-to-end data flow (sensors -> ingestion -> analytics -> dashboards -> exports). Run a Privacy Impact Assessment against OECD privacy principles + per-ten…
- Privacy By Design
- Privacy Regulation
- Compliance
Information Security Management and Governance - StrategyIntermediateNew
Repair Post-Merger Collaboration at Maison Luxe and EcoDenim
Using only the materials provided, design a three-month cultural integration program for the merged Maison Luxe and EcoDenim organization. First, diagnose the friction using the…
- Cross Cultural Communication
- Merger Integration
- Program Design
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
FMEA for SaaS Platform Migration at a 40-Person Scale-Up
You are provided with a system architecture overview and a list of potential failure modes from the engineering team. Your task is to complete an FMEA worksheet: identify failur…
- Fmea
- Risk Assessment
- Mitigation Strategy
Open coursework - PresentationIntermediateNew
Run a Cross-Team Retrospective After a Failed Launch
Design a 3-hour structured retrospective using either Liberating Structures or Norm Kerr's 'Prime Directive' framing (assume people did the best job possible with what they knew…
- Retrospectives
- Facilitation
- Incident Analysis
Open coursework - 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 - ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Product Discovery Sprint for Logistics Dispatch Software
Using the company-brief and the customer-recruitment-packet, recruit and interview eight dispatchers across the five named freight-forwarder customers (the warm introduction ema…
- Product Discovery
- User Interviews
- Opportunity Solution Tree
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Application Portfolio Rationalization at a Global Bank
Receive a CMDB extract of 412 applications with cost, technology stack, business owner, and usage telemetry (anonymized). Score each application on business value (revenue contr…
- Portfolio Rationalization
- It Governance
- Cost Analysis
IT Management and Governance - StrategyIntermediateNew
5G Network Slicing Strategy for a Smart-Port Pilot
Inventory the 3 workloads with concrete numbers (e.g., 'straddle carriers: 12 ms one-way latency, 99.999 percent availability, 50 Mbps uplink'). Design 3 5G network slices (eMBB…
- 5g Network Slicing
- Cellular Networks
- Qos Design
Wireless and Mobile Networks - PresentationBeginnerNew
Pitch an LLM Earnings-Call Analyst to an Equity Long-Short Team
Pick 3 publicly available US tech earnings-call transcripts (from a free source like sec.gov filings or company investor-relations pages) and build a retrieval-augmented LLM wor…
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
- LLM Evaluation
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