We worked with Andrea Kuhfuß and her team from QLab for a Design Thinking Sprint as part of a business forum with the top management of Sweco Germany. The team led us through an intense four hours at breathtaking speed and with the highest level of expertise. The focus was on our value proposition: Tranforming Society Together. How can we work with our colleagues and customers to sustainably change tomorrow's society?

Empathy, curiosity, and a genuine interest in the other party's needs are needed for real change. This was vividly demonstrated to us - methodically, sympathetically and warmly. There were enlightening moments and beautiful learning effects that we can take with us into our everyday work.
Many thanks to the team for inspiring hours!

We were driven by the desire for focus and a common denominator. The QLab's experience and (methodological) expertise for teasing out ideas appealed to us - in the process, we all rediscovered an appreciation for the common cause (our common denominator).

The QLab initiated a mutual inspiration among the participants, which increased step by step during the workshop and had a lasting effect on the collaboration. Hanseatic restraint with a cosmopolitan attitude and a sense for "the moment" - while guaranteeing a high degree of directness and honesty.

The QLab proved to be the perfect partner for this. The QLab accompanied us for several months in a collaborative project with different actors from science and business. Thoroughly prepared and with a firm eye on the goal, Andrea Kuhfuß always gave us the necessary structure and energy in her positive and transparent manner and successfully coached us toward the goal.

We can recommend QLab with a clear conscience because the mix of expertise and personal commitment is a real asset. If you want to inhale an agile mindset, QLab is the right place for you.

Andrea Kuhfuß and her team at QLab conducted a primary investigation into the question of a sustainable and successful future for the Verden municipal utility and the possibilities of a climate-neutral energy supply. Within a short time, the young, innovative team developed helpful recommendations for action.

The cooperation of young people from different disciplines and countries and the open-minded and cooperative way of working have resulted in insightful findings. Many thanks for new perspectives, inspiration, and motivation!

After founding our team, we wanted to gain as much knowledge as possible about a market segment quickly. For the QLab Sprint, the focus was on this question: "How can we support companies in the German photovoltaic industry to strengthen their business operations to drive the energy turnaround faster?" The results of the QLab Sprint included a map of the solar industry players with their respective current challenges and a prototype for a website with our offering.

Working with the QLab provided us with a fundamental understanding of the market, which benefits us in our current collaboration with municipal utilities and companies in the solar industry and wind power companies. For us, the QLab is a fixed network and exchange partner with the same goal: to position companies well for the energy transition and digitalization.

The Design Thinking workshop with Ms. Kuhfuß initiated new thinking strategies and approaches. The methods learned lead away from the well-trodden paths of idea generation and are mostly easy to apply. A good side effect is that you also learn something new about yourself and your colleagues. Ms. Kuhfuß led our group through the workshop with a sure hand - very competent, flexible, and determined.

At AWATREE, we gave the QLab the question of a simplified business model: instead of our classic "the city is your customer" approach, the international team focused on citizens: insiders. We got terrific insights in interviews with experts from all over the world. The testing of the developed "minimal viable product" (MVP) in different European cities was impressive, and all findings were documented in an attractive final report.

A QLab Sprint enables a new way of looking at things, provides excellent impulses and is, in my opinion, the best recommendation for getting a "breath of fresh air" into the most diverse problems. Thank you for the great work and the professional and efficient management by Patrick and Andrea!

We are delighted to recommend QLab to others! The joint workshop with Boris and Andrea helped us to develop new business models for Michaelshof in Sammatz. Interactive tools will also help us test ideas more quickly and confidently in the future.

In our project, members from different work areas come together, including their organizational forms and ways of working. Therefore, we needed a new standard way of working that would allow everyone to work well, efficiently, and agilely. Andrea Kuhfuß approached us and our needs very individually from the first day to the last. Based on her extensive expertise and experience, she developed custom-fit solutions together with us. Her open and engaging manner and positive energy make the collaboration goal-oriented and heartwarming.

Love it, change it, leave it? When working with QLab, it's pretty simple: Love it.

The sprint positively challenged me and allowed me to apply newly learned work techniques directly. I have rarely worked on a project with such focus and forward direction - the "pressure" to deliver the first tangible answers to the question within five weeks has welded us together as a sprint team and motivated us to keep the workspace constantly high.

What else I take away from the sprint: "Action before overthinking" - in a new project, not everything has to be perfectly thought out and planned from day 1, but the best insights develop when you "hit the road" and ask, test, and learn from it—a way of working that I will continue to use in my job.

Bringing an innovation project to a successful conclusion in five weeks with young international professionals who have never met before. That sounds impossible. But it isn't. We had the courage to engage with QLab's process entirely and are thrilled with what Andrea and her team made possible. An internal project would not have produced this result, even months later.

As part of the first InnoNation Festival, we at BDI experimented with participatory formats and a new event dynamic. Andrea Kuhfuß and her team assisted us with the methodological design and the moderation of the Deep Dive Industrial Metaverse. Patrick Runge shared his expertise with the audience on the Gendered Innovations panel.

Andrea was extremely flexible and quick to flesh out abstract ideas. She immediately understood that we needed many people to collaborate. She came up with an innovative and workable proposal that included the expertise of both guests and regular participants - coupled with empathy and topic sensitivity, Andrea was exactly the right choice for our innovative event format. Gladly again!

In our talent management program, we hold regular workshops to strengthen site loyalty and promote shared learning. This time, we held a design thinking workshop to develop user-centered solutions to a problem.

Andrea guided us through the day in an exceptionally competent and structured manner and enabled us all to conduct our own design thinking workshop just two weeks later. My conclusion: the method is absolutely relevant in the context of idea development and is a lot of fun to experience together. We will definitely continue with it.

The Lahn-Dill district relied on the QLab team to organize a sustainability reception with volunteers involved in climate and environmental protection.

Andrea and Patrick provided us with wonderful support in planning the content of the event and moderated the event with great skill, empathy and fun. Their conceptual ideas and suggestions on how to bring people who hardly knew each other beforehand, or didn't know each other at all, into a profitable exchange were a complete success. We can therefore look back on a successful event that has taken us a long way towards even more targeted networking in the field of climate and environmental protection.

"As part of the transformation of our Purchasing and Procurement department, we had Andrea Kuhfuß organize a design thinking workshop. We are very satisfied with the results of the 'Create digital communication solutions for purchasers, customers and suppliers' challenge. The method we learned has a lasting effect."

Labew Bremen was a project partner in the Design Sprint, which was all about 'Finding and retaining female IT specialists from abroad'. We are impressed by how practical solutions were developed in just five weeks. A key factor here was the young and intercultural project team, which approached the complex issue with a multidisciplinary perspective. The professional support of the team and the sprint by Patrick and Andrea ultimately ensured the precision landing. Many thanks for the successful preparation and implementation of the project with the very different players from politics and business!

As part of the question "How can we support IT companies in the recruitment and integration of (female) foreign specialists?", the QLab Think Tank's team of experts addressed an issue that is highly relevant to us as a welcome service. The solution approaches are extremely valuable for us, as they were developed by an international team and thus took on a different perspective that would not have been possible through us. The needs and problems of our customers are thus brought even more into focus and accompanied by meaningful proposals. Many thanks for the fruitful collaboration.

Thank you, dear QLab, for organizing the Design Thinking workshop with over 60 participants! Andrea managed to get colleagues from two companies actively working together right from the start. The joint preparation ran just as smoothly as the workshop itself and provided us all with valuable insights and approaches for our future projects! We can recommend working with the QLab without reservation! Thank you very much!

We would like to thank Ms. Kuhfuß for professionally conducting a strategy workshop with 25 managers from the RIGROMONT Group. She supported our heterogeneous group in effectively generating a consensus on upcoming tasks, prioritizing them and developing concrete measures. Her expertise encouraged productive discussion and made it possible to reach decisions. We are very happy to recommend Ms. Kuhfuß!

Thank you, Andrea, for conducting the design thinking workshop with 25 of our colleagues from different departments who developed possible solutions for implementing sustainability measures for our customers . Your professional facilitation helped us to think outside the box and grow closer together as a team! We are very happy to recommend you!

Andrea opened our AIKA Conference 2024 with a keynote on the topic of New Work and conducted a Liberating Structures workshop. The keynote opened up valuable insights and new perspectives and prepared the audience very well for the conference program. The subsequent workshop actively involved our participants, encouraged creative thinking and developed concrete solutions. We would like to thank Andrea for her support and recommend her without reservation.

At the beginning of our collaboration in a new team composition, we wanted guidance on how to implement our collaboration in an effective, appreciative and goal-oriented manner. Andrea guided us step by step through the design thinking process as part of a team building workshop, actively involving each and every one of us. The method was not only useful for generating new ideas for our future collaboration, but also helped us to get to know each other even better. Andrea's expertise and passion for design thinking were clearly noticeable and we were able to take away a lot from the day that we can build on in our daily work - thank you very much!

We would like to thank Andrea for her professional and inspiring moderation of the Design Thinking workshop and, above all, for sharing her extensive background knowledge with us. Thanks to the focus on 'train the trainer', we can apply what we have learned directly in our dealings with external and internal customers . We would certainly recommend Andrea!

Andrea has supported us greatly in recent months with her many years of expertise and commitment. Through her customized workshops and coaching sessions, she has accompanied not only the team, but also the team leaders and the management in a process that has significantly improved our cross-departmental collaboration. Her ability to convey complex topics in an understandable way and create a positive working environment helped us to establish more efficient work processes within a short space of time and to work even more closely with our colleagues. Thank you for your professional support and your motivating, always positive manner!