Foundational Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the foundational level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- AnalysisFoundationalNew
Design a Go/No-Go CVP Model for EcoWear Activewear
Design a CVP decision model and proposal for EcoWear's biodegradable activewear line using only the EcoWear Activewear Cost & Assumptions Brief and the Comparable Activewear SKU…
- Cvp Analysis
- Break Even Analysis
- Sensitivity Analysis
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Smart Street Lighting for Sustainable City District
Your task is to design a smart street lighting system for a 10-block area in Freiburg's city center. Use PIR motion sensors and ambient light sensors to detect pedestrians and v…
- Iot Architecture
- Sensor Integration
- Mesh Networks
Open coursework - ResearchFoundationalNew
Diagnose GreenBite's Plant-Based Chicken Launch Readiness
Work only from the four items in the provided materials: the GreenBite launch-readiness case file, the draft consumer survey instrument left by the previous analyst, the nationa…
- Survey Design
- Data Analysis
- Consumer Behavior
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Brand Architecture Overhaul for a D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a brand strategy intern at GlowUp. Your task is to audit the current brand portfolio, propose a new brand architecture (e.g., branded house, house of brands, or hybrid),…
- Brand Portfolio Audit
- Brand Architecture
- Naming
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Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- AnalysisFoundationalNew
Performance Evaluation of a Tech Mutual Fund
Your task is to analyze the TechGrowth Fund's monthly returns from 2019-2023, along with benchmark and risk-free rate data. You must calculate and interpret key performance meas…
- Performance Evaluation
- Sharpe Ratio
- Jensens Alpha
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Lean Launch Plan for a Sustainable Fashion App
Your task is to create a lean launch plan document. Define your target customer segment, design a customer discovery interview guide, specify MVP features (no coding required, j…
- Lean Startup
- Customer Discovery
- Mvp Design
Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation - DesignFoundationalNew
Stakeholder Workshop on AI Risk for a Public-Sector Pilot
You receive a description of the pilot (24/7 LLM chatbot answering questions on municipal services in Spanish and Catalan). Design a 3-hour workshop for around 25 mixed-stakehol…
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Workshop Design
- Responsible Ai
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - StrategyFoundationalNew
Plan GlowLisboa's Competitive Response to a Price War
Working from the company snapshot and the competitor and market readout provided to you, build a structured competitive assessment of GlowLisboa and recommend one strategic move…
- Industry Analysis
- Competitor Profiling
- Strategic Thinking
Open coursework - Browse challenges
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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.
- ResearchFoundationalNew
Ethical Stress Test of an AI Tutoring Startup
Produce a concise ethical risk register and stakeholder impact analysis grounded in publicly available evidence about AI tutors (e.g., Khanmigo studies, UNESCO AI in education g…
- Risk Assessment
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Ai Ethics
AI, Ethics and Society - ResearchFoundationalNew
Requirements Discovery for a Restaurant Inventory App
Conduct 5 semi-structured interviews (45 minutes each) across line cook, kitchen manager, bar manager, store manager, and group operations. Synthesize findings into 5 user perso…
- Requirements Engineering
- User Interviews
- Use Case Modeling
Software Engineering Foundations - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Controlling Inventory for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
Your task is to develop an inventory control system for EcoThreads. You must analyze historical sales data (provided in a CSV), identify patterns, propose KPIs (e.g., turnover r…
- Inventory Management
- Data Analysis
- KPI Definition
Principles of Management - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Production Planning for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
Your task is to build a linear program that decides weekly production quantities for each product line. Constraints include labor hours (max 400 hrs), machine hours (max 200 hrs…
- Linear Programming
- Optimization
- Excel
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Why Ewance
- AnalysisFoundationalNew
Investigate Price Sensitivity for GlowSydney's New Moisturizer
Working solo, begin by exploring the GlowSydney transaction history (provided as the dataset 'glowsydney-transactions') to summarize how prices and units sold are distributed, u…
- Descriptive Statistics
- Linear Regression
- Data Visualization
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Design a Kanban Catering Workflow for a Lisbon Bakery Chain
Using the order-flow case file describing how a catering order moves from intake to delivery confirmation, and the sample catering order log provided, design a complete Kanban s…
- Kanban
- Process Mapping
- Wip Limits
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Parallelize an Image-Processing Pipeline with Data Parallelism
Your analysis task is to take the serial pipeline module and its configuration (provided as 'serial-pipeline-module'), run it against the representative image batch described in…
- Data Parallelism
- Python
- Multiprocessing
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Competitive SEO Audit for a Munich Craft Beer E-Shop
Perform a technical SEO audit using free tools (Google Search Console data provided, Screaming Frog export attached). Analyze site architecture, page speed, mobile usability, me…
- Online Marketing
- Web Development
- Data Analytics
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
ESG Reporting Gaps for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-up
You are an ESG analyst tasked with helping DataFlow prepare for enterprise client ESG requirements. Your deliverable is a materiality matrix, a set of key ESG indicators (KPIs),…
- Materiality Assessment
- ESG Metrics
- Sustainability Reporting
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Diagnose and Rebuild a Slow Recipe Search at a Marketplace Startup
Work only from the three items in the provided materials: the current search function, a representative sample of the recipe catalog, and the fixed set of representative queries…
- Algorithm Analysis
- Big O
- Data Structures
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Set Revenue-Maximizing Prices for Glow Naturals Skincare
Using only the Glow Naturals daily sales record (provided_materials: glow-sales-history) and the executive's framing note (provided_materials: ceo-pricing-brief), prepare and an…
- Linear Regression
- Hypothesis Testing
- Data Cleaning
Open coursework - StrategyFoundationalNew
Build a Stakeholder Engagement Plan for Barcelona's Smart Traffic Rollout
Working only from the materials provided, produce a stakeholder engagement plan for the smart traffic program. Read the program charter to fix the project's scope, budget envelo…
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication Planning
- Conflict Resolution
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Digital Transformation for a Legacy Luxury Hotel
Design a digital strategy for the hotel's guest experience. Constraints: no changes to the physical property; budget of €500,000; must integrate with existing PMS. Success means…
- Customer Journey Mapping
- Digital Strategy
- Luxury Service Design
Luxury Brand Management - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Pricing Strategy for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
You are a pricing analyst at EcoWear. Using the survey data (simulated with 500 responses) and competitor prices, perform a conjoint analysis or price elasticity analysis. Deter…
- Data Analysis
- Statistics
- Data Visualization
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Redesign a Vet-Clinic SaaS Database to Third Normal Form
Using the current schema dump and the eight most-common reporting queries provided to you, design a replacement database structure for VetLedger. First, produce an entity-relati…
- Data Modeling
- Normalization
- SQL
Open coursework - StrategyFoundationalNew
Investigate How Circular-Fashion Ventures Build Their Launch Teams
Your task is to run a field investigation and then design the team. First, observe: read the EcoThreads Circular Pilot Dossier to map the four functions, their leads, and their …
- Team Building
- Cross Functional Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution
Open coursework
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