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Opportunity Lab

Which market opportunity is worth pursuing?

In a half-day or full-day workshop, your team assesses what changing customer needs, market shifts and new business models could mean for your company. You leave with ranked opportunities, assumptions to test and a clear next step with a named owner.

From signal to decision

What is changing outside, and what could it mean for you?

This workshop fits when your team sees change but is not yet sure which developments matter to its market position. We bring a focused selection of external signals into the work and examine them against your strategy, customers and business.

01 · Read the signals

What is changing?

We review selected changes in what customers expect, competition, business models, rules or technology. We name sources and make open assumptions visible.

02 · Compare options

What could it mean for your business?

Your team connects the signals to its own position and compares possible opportunities by relevance, fit and what remains unknown.

03 · Plan the next check

What do you need to find out?

You record which option to pursue, the assumptions behind it, what the team still needs to learn and who will find out.

An example

From an observation to your own question.

An illustrative example, not a client case: a manufacturer notices that customers increasingly expect flexible rather than standard delivery models.

  1. Signal:Published market observations and conversations with sales and service teams point to changing customer expectations.
  2. Company question:Which customer groups matter to us, and where does our current offer still fit?
  3. Working outcome:The team compares possible offer directions, records assumptions and what it still needs to learn from customers, then assigns someone to find out.
Who it is for

The direction is open. The question is clear.

The Opportunity Lab is for strategy, product and innovation teams that want to make sense of market change and set a reasoned priority. Beforehand, we agree on the business question, existing material, participants and available sources.

What you take away

  • A ranked set of market opportunities and the reasons they matter
  • Visible assumptions and open questions
  • A next check with a clear owner

Customer tests, experiments or a technical prototype can follow, but they are separate work and only included when agreed.

Already have a defined use case, experiment or prototype in mind? Our use-case workshop and hackathon formats help teams plan the next technical or customer test.

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Start with your market question

What change should you examine more closely?

Tell us what is moving in your market and what decision is ahead. Together, we can decide which sources and perspectives the lab needs.

Discuss the lab