Solita Business Design Masterclass gets you kick-started on the journey to re-invent your business with design. It is a tailor-made, intensive training for business leaders and practitioners to gain tools for growth and renewal. We balance theory and hands-on application and look beyond buzzwords to identify new sources of value.
David Schmidt is one of the most vocal advocates for Business Design in Europe. He has been writing and talking about the topic for more than five years. He is co-organiser of the LinkedIn community of 9000+ Business Designers.
He has 8+ years of experience in innovation and business modelling and consulted DAX companies and startups on customer centric innovation, product development and business models. He holds degrees both in mathematics and sociology.
Currently he is Business Design partner at United Peers, a corporate venture builder, where he designs business models and implements them in new companies. Read more about David Schmidt.
Mikko is a professional facilitator of innovation and also a business designer himself. He works with industry leading companies on their new business ventures and innovation capabilities building.
He talks the talk with upper management, walks the walk with teams hands-on and helps the organisations build bridges between vision and reality. Read more about the masterclass from Mikko’s blog post.
With a strong collaboration and visionary mindset Maria works as a Business Designer and Digital Ecosystem designer. She has a strong position in the data driven research and development stream within the Energy and Buildings/Housing sector, helping customers and organisation identifying potential in data, joint forces and collaborative business models.
Maria works both hands on and on a strategic level. She is totally remote and shifts from north to south, from wide scope to slim detail discussions in seconds. Maria is part of the Swedish Design and Strategy team and very proud to present the Business Design Masterclass for the Swedish market. She has participated herself in the same class earlier. Read more about Maria in her blog post, or in this recently published article: Smartare styrning av fjärrvärme med AI.
Maiju Samberg has +20 years of experience in customer-centric design and service design around the world from global enterprises to small startups. She holds a Masters degree in Psychology. She has a strategic and systematic human-centered approach to developing businesses and organisations. Currently, she is a principal service designer in Team Solita Germany and focusing connecting human insights with data-driven business to create real value. She will act as a coach and host in the Masterclass, focusing especially on customer insights for business design.
Christian is a holistic thinker who thrives on challenges and is always looking for the path to value. He has worked as a business designer and management consultant for 10+ years, focused on capturing business value in large B2B companies.
During the past three years, Christian has worked mainly with strategic data and business transformation. Working with topics like data solutions, data assets, data products, forming visions, governance models, transformation design, KPI architecture, process design and showcasing business value.
Read more about learnings from the trenches in Christian’s latest blog post.
Four online training sessions on September 12-15, 2022, 13.00-17.00 EET.
The course fee is 1485 € + VAT. (Early bird sign-up 1300€ + VAT until 1 August.)
Our curriculum is tailored to provide you with the needed knowledge, practice and stepping stones for your business design journey. You will get an understanding of fundamental concepts of business design. We will provide you proven tools for customer-centric business model generation, fast prototyping and hypothesis-driven business planning. You will also get to exchange with peer learners & business design professionals.
Four online training sessions on September 12-15, 2022, 13.00-17.00 EET.
The course fee is 1485 € + VAT. (Early bird sign-up 1300€ + VAT until 1 August.)
Business leaders, managers and strategists with complex business challenges that look for new ways to solve them. You do not need to have previous experience in business design.
”Turning innovative service ideas into real business opportunities is our task at KONE Innovation Unit. Solita Masterclass provided us with a valuable set of tools to work on business models and value creation. Furthermore, it is a great opportunity to widen your professional network.”
-Etti Seppä, Strategic Design for Innovation, KONE Corporation
“The masterclass offers a great package: You learn a complete process with actionable modules that produce tangible results. My personal highlights were modelling with numbers and visualizing a business model.”
–Sven Schneider, Head of Future Business Design, Miele
“Business development in complex ecosystems with many stakeholders can be really tricky. The Solita Masterclass was a great opportunity for me to discuss and deepen my understanding of design and collaboration methods for business and service renewal processes.”
–Vanessa Ware, Data Driven Business Development & Innovation Public Housing Sweden, Sveriges Allmännytta
Four online training sessions on September 12-15, 2022, 13.00-17.00 EET.
