Field Investigation: Scoping a Siemens Energy Green Hydrogen Venture
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Analyze Siemens Energy’s strategy and a hydrogen tracker to design a venture concept within budget and timeline. Earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
Siemens Energy is a Munich-headquartered energy technology company whose Transformation of Industry and Grid Technologies segments already build electrolyzer and grid hardware central to green hydrogen. The company has stated public ambitions to scale electrolyzer capacity, yet its large-project culture and capital discipline create real friction for fast-moving internal ventures.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
How can Siemens Energy launch an intrapreneurial green hydrogen venture that fits its publicly stated strategy, occupies a defensible market gap, and overcomes internal resistance within a five-million-euro seed budget and a twelve-month timeline to first pilot?
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Translate publicly observable corporate strategy and market data into a concrete venture thesis
- Identify defensible market white space by analyzing a real project landscape dataset
- Build a resource-constrained venture plan that respects a fixed seed budget and timeline
- Diagnose internal corporate barriers and design a stakeholder engagement strategy to overcome them
- Construct an evidence-backed, persuasive funding pitch for a corporate venture committee
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Business Model Canvas
Apply business model canvas to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Stakeholder Analysis
Apply stakeholder analysis to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Corporate Venturing
Apply corporate venturing to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Pitch Deck Creation
Apply pitch deck creation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Resource Allocation
Apply resource allocation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Corporate Venture Manager
This challenge mirrors the core of corporate venturing: turning a parent company's strategy and market signals into a fundable internal venture that survives committee scrutiny while respecting tight capital and time constraints.
This challenge sharpens
- corporate-venturing
- business-model-canvas
- resource-allocation
Innovation Strategy Consultant
Consultants advising on innovation must convert observable strategy and competitive landscapes into actionable concepts and win internal buy-in. The investigation-to-pitch arc here rehearses exactly that advisory workflow end to end.
This challenge sharpens
- corporate-venturing
- stakeholder-analysis
- pitch-deck-creation
Product / Venture Lead (Energy Transition)
Energy-transition venture leads scope opportunities against market data, plan resources, and pitch for funding. This challenge builds the muscle of grounding a venture thesis in evidence and defending its feasibility within a fixed budget.
This challenge sharpens
- business-model-canvas
- resource-allocation
- pitch-deck-creation