Set a business challenge

Got a live business challenge that could benefit from fresh perspectives?

From short project sprints to ongoing live briefs, small businesses can collaborate with us for unique, student-driven insights and solutions – all while nurturing future talent.

How it works

Discovery

It starts with a discovery call. We get an overview of your small business and discuss your specific challenge to ensure it suits our students and understand how we can best collaborate with you.

Our students could help you with anything from designing a marketing campaign to analysing data and proposing a new service or product.

The brief

We provide a template for your small business challenge and match you to the most appropriate course to ensure maximum impact for you and our students.

We may suggest adapting your brief so you can work with larger groups of students or across multiple subjects. The brief can be straightforward or complex.

The execution

Students can work on your challenge in one of two ways: through ongoing, in-depth live brief projects across several weeks, or a fast-paced, exciting hackathon or sprint in a single day.

We help small businesses choose the best collaboration type, based on your needs and desired time commitment.

The outcome

At the end of the project, students present their work to you, ready for you to use, adapt or feed into future planning.

Outputs might include:

• design artefacts.
• marketing or business strategies.
• pitches and presentations.
• prototypes, games or apps.
• research findings or data insights.
• written reports.