This business project offered by WU’s Energy & Strategy Think Tank provides students with the opportunity to work with two of Austria's leading corporations, OMV and Wien Energie.

This year’s focus is Business Model Innovation for the Energy Industry. Equipped with several state-of-the-art analysis and creativity tools, student teams will analyze innovative technologies, trends, and business models and carve out implications for the partners' business models.

After completing this interactive course, students will have advanced their knowledge of and skills in…

Strategic, Innovation, & Creativity Management
- Analyze the implications of technological innovations for business models
- Use designing thinking to systemically develop ideas into business models
- Develop roadmaps for business model implementation

Project Management & Consulting
- Manage complex and dynamic consulting projects
- Work with high-profile clients
- Know how to build industry-related expert knowledge on a complex and key industry

Team & Communication Management
- Work in interdisciplinary and international teams
- Present with impact
- Communicate complex findings in a structured and easy way

The course combines various interactive and state-of-the-art methods:

• Interactive theory and best practice inputs
• In-class discussions
• Group work
• Team and 1-on-1 coaching
• Design thinking
• Presentations in front of senior executives

40% Project Deliverables (Group Assessment)
20% Mid-term Presentation (Group Assessment)
20% Final Presentation (Group Assessment)
20% In-class Discussions and Activity (Individual Assessement)