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- DesignBeginnerNew
Stand Up a Business-IT Alignment Operating Model
Map the current demand flow from intake to delivery (or non-delivery) and identify the top 5 break points (likely candidates: no triage, no prioritization frame, undersized capa…
- Business It Alignment
- Demand Management
- Portfolio Prioritization
IT Management and Governance - AnalysisBeginnerNew
CVP Analysis for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You are a financial analyst at CloudFlow. Given current PLG pricing (€50/user/month, 10,000 users) and cost structure (€200K fixed, €10/user variable), plus planned enterprise t…
- Cvp Analysis
- Break Even Analysis
- Pricing Strategy
Management and Cost Accounting - DesignBeginnerNew
Threat-Model the Patient-Intake App for a Telemedicine Startup
Working only from the three materials provided — the system architecture overview, the patient-intake data-flow description, and the SOC 2 control-mapping table — produce a STRI…
- Threat Modeling
- STRIDE
- Risk Assessment
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Build a Tiered Vendor-Security Review Program, Validated by a 12-Vendor Pilot
Using the de-identified subprocessor inventory and the twelve-vendor pilot dossier provided, design a three-tier risk program (critical, important, low-risk) with explicit, obse…
- Third Party Risk
- Security Governance
- Compliance
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CodeBeginnerNewKnowledge-Graph Recommender for a Lisbon Bookstore
Using the catalog sample (catalog_sample), build a knowledge graph whose nodes are books, authors, genres, themes, eras, and awards, and whose edges capture relationships such a…
- Knowledge Representation
- Knowledge Graphs
- Python Programming
Open coursework- StrategyBeginnerNew
Design an Inclusive Engineering Hiring Plan for a Boston SaaS Scale-Up
Using the twelve-month applicant funnel dataset and the current-process case file provided, audit where DataFlow's engineering pipeline loses underrepresented candidates and why…
- Diversity And Inclusion Strategy
- Recruitment Audit
- Bias Mitigation
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Building a Customer Segmentation Tool for a SaaS Scale-up
You are provided with a JSON file containing user data: user_id, total_logins, days_since_last_login, features_used (count), subscription_tier (free/basic/premium). Your task is…
- Python
- Pandas
- Scikit Learn
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
IP Strategy for a SaaS Scale-Up Moving Upmarket
You are an IP strategy associate at a boutique law firm. TaskFlow's CTO has asked for a strategic memo outlining how to protect their algorithm and brand. You must evaluate whet…
- Ip Law
- Patent Analysis
- Trademark Strategy
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Pricing Strategist
Set the price that captures value without leaving sales on the table. Demand modelling, willingness-to-pay research, and the disciplined experimentation that turns pricing into a competitive advantage.
- CodeBeginnerNew
Calibrate a Demand Forecast with Bayesian Confidence Intervals
You receive 24 months of weekly demand for 600 SKUs plus the existing XGBoost point predictions. Fit a Bayesian conformal-prediction layer (or, alternatively, a Gaussian-Process…
- Bayesian Inference
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Conformal Prediction
Probabilistic Machine Learning - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimizing Last-Mile Delivery for a San Francisco Grocery Startup
Your task is to formulate a minimum-cost flow problem for daily delivery routes. Use the provided order data (locations, time windows, volumes) and vehicle specs (capacity, spee…
- Linear Programming
- Network Flow
- Python
Operations Research and Optimization - CodeBeginnerNew
Tabular Q-Learning for Warehouse Slotting
You receive a Python discrete-event simulator with state encoded as a 12-dimensional categorical vector (around 8,000 reachable states) and 6 possible slotting actions, plus 2 y…
- Tabular Rl
- Q Learning
- Epsilon Greedy
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Redesign Weekly Production Scheduling for a Munich Craft Brewery
Using the historical demand dataset, the production-constraints specification, and the current-operations snapshot provided, design a single weekly production schedule for the t…
- Process Analysis
- Capacity Planning
- Scheduling
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Greening the Munich D2C Cosmetics Supply Chain
Your task is to conduct a life cycle assessment (LCA) of Glow Naturals' best-selling moisturizer, identify the biggest environmental hotspots, and recommend changes in sourcing,…
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Circular Economy
- Supply Chain Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Customer-Segmentation Study for a DTC Subscription Box
Use 18 months of anonymized data: order history, churn events, NPS responses, box-rating data, referral activity, marketing-channel attribution. Engineer features (RFM-style + b…
- Unsupervised Learning
- Python Programming
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Community Detection on a Pharma Clinical-Trial Investigator Graph
You receive a pre-fetched dump of around 15,000 trials from a public registry covering oncology over the last 10 years and a mapping of trials to investigator names + institutio…
- Community Detection
- Louvain
- Leiden
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Assessing Political Risk for a Spanish Solar Firm in Indonesia
Students must produce a political risk report for SolMadrid's board, including a country risk score (0-100) using a custom weighted index, a qualitative assessment of key risk f…
- Political Risk Analysis
- Country Risk Assessment
- Geopolitical Frameworks
Geopolitics for Business - AnalysisBeginnerNew
PIPEDA Compliance for a Toronto D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to conduct a privacy compliance audit for Glow Naturals. You must identify at least five key gaps in their data processing practices, focusing on areas such as cons…
- GDPR
- Data Protection
- Compliance Audit
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Lease Accounting for a Restaurant Chain
Your team's task is to implement ASC 842 for Taco Fresco's 50 leases. You have a spreadsheet with lease data: commencement dates, terms, renewal options, annual rent (including …
- Lease Accounting
- ASC 842
- Present Value
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design the Architecture for a Library Management System
Read the 30-page replacement RFP. Author a 15-page architecture document covering the C4 model levels 1-3 (context, container, component) for the new system: web app, mobile app…
- Software Architecture
- C4 Model
- Data Modeling
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Rebuild Motivation for a Remote Enterprise Sales Team
Using the team context dossier, the leadership strategy memo, and the quarterly engagement and performance snapshot provided to you, design a motivation system for the remote en…
- Motivation Theory
- Remote Team Management
- Goal Setting
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Introduce XP Practices to a Legacy E-Commerce Codebase
Run a 6-week intervention with the 7-person checkout team. Week 1: baseline (current test coverage, defect-escape rate, story cycle time). Weeks 2-5: introduce TDD on all new co…
- Extreme Programming
- Test Driven Development
- Pair Programming
Agile Methods and Practices - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Transfer Pricing for a Lagos D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a junior tax consultant hired by GlowLagos. Your task is to analyze the current intercompany transactions (raw material purchases, manufacturing fees, and royalty paymen…
- Transfer Pricing
- Benchmarking
- Functional Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
UK Market Entry Strategy for GlowDublin Cosmetics
Develop a complete go-to-market strategy for GlowDublin's launch in the United Kingdom, working only from the materials you have been given: the GlowDublin company snapshot (its…
- Market Analysis
- Competitive Analysis
- Go To Market Strategy
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Digital Transformation Governance for a Family-Owned Retail Chain
You are a junior strategy analyst in a consulting firm hired by the family council. Your task is to propose a governance model for digital transformation, including decision rig…
- Governance Design
- Digital Transformation
- Family Business
Family Business Management
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