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Innovation in the QLab: The PowerWeek

Full power: Design thinking meets basic research

The world is changing, and your company is facing new challenges.
High time for innovation! QLab specializes in conducting comprehensive basic investigations within one week using the world-famous Design Thinking methodology.

Read all about the QLab PowerWeek and contact us to book a PowerWeek!

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Our services

*Autumn offer: Our packages are only available this cheap until 30.11.2023!

Design Thinking Workshop

from 2.400€*

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The design thinking impulse for your team.

Analog workshop on a task from your company

Theoretical background to Design Thinking

Experience all six Design Thinking phases

Also possible at our Innovation Salon (Casino Futur, Bremen)

For 5-12 people

1 day: 09:00 till 17:00

Most popular!

Powerweek Digital

from 7.500€*

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All contents of the Design Thinking day workshop + further development

The QLab team meets you digitally for the Design Thinking Workshop and takes the developed approaches further

Tailored recommendations for action

Mockups, wireframes, user journeys

Full power: Our innovation experts, Andrea Kuhfuss and Patrick Runge, are entirely focused on solving your problem for four working days (60 working hours).

New!

PowerWeek Analog

from 9.000€*

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All contents of the Design Thinking day workshop + further development

All PowerWeek Digital features 

Implementation of the PowerWeek in the Innovation Salon of the QLab(Casino Futur, Bremen)

Optional: Implementation of the PowerWeek in your company (+3.000€)

Yes - Bali is also possible!

Procedure of the PowerWeek

The QLab PowerWeek

With maximum efficiency to
success

To produce usable results within the shortest possible time, during the QLab PowerWeek, we apply the agile methods of Design Thinking. These are based on the Design Sprint, which became internationally famous through Google Ventures.

To develop customized solutions that optimally reflect your and your customer's needs is our goal. We work closely with your team to achieve this with your future information platform.

As the name "QLab PowerWeek" already suggests, it is a week full of power in which we jointly develop solution approaches for your challenges.

The QLab PowerWeek is based on the principles of Design Thinking and is, therefore, transferable to any topic. Whatever your company urgently needs, the QLab creates the basis within one week and quickly develops excellent solutions!

  • Location: The PowerWeek can be held remotely, onsite, or as a hybrid.
  • Duration: 5 working days of 8 working hours each. (9.30 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.)
  • Moderation by the QLab team
  • Decision makers of your company (only during the Design Thinking Workshop on day 1)
  • End customers testing our results

During the briefing discussion with you, we will determine the following:

  • Exactly what the product should be at the end of QLab PowerWeek.
  • Who from your team will be attending PowerWeek. 
  • Who the test customers are whom we will acquire in advance.
  • Check-in and team building
  • Design Thinking Workshop: Sketching Problems and Solutions
  • Wrap-up

Full power: Andrea Kuhfuss and Patrick Runge, the QLab core team, focus entirely on the primary investigation, which is essential for solving your problem.

  • Check in with your team
  • Test with customers, get feedback
  • Wrap-up and specification of next steps

Testimonials

Happy Clients

Find out what our customers think about us.

Here you can go to our Project results.
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!
Juliane Plath,Head of Marketing & CommunicationSweco GmbH
Juliane PlathHead of Marketing & Communication, Sweco GmbH
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.
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Susanne von Essenautofreier StadTraum Bremen e.V.
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.
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Dirk BösickeDriversity Germany
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!
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Lutz BrockmannMayor city of Verden
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.
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Benedikt DrossartManagement Consultant, Borisgloger Consulting
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.
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Henning FriesSenior User Interface Architect, DIaLOGIKa GmbH
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!
Daniel Brand
Daniel BrandFounder and Managing Director of AWATREE GmbH
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.
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Claudia BradyBoard Michaelshof
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.
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Stefanie WiechersProject Coordinator, SKILL-UB
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.
Valeria Schlüter, Inapa Germany
Valeria SchlüterBusiness Development Manager, Inapa Deutschland GmbH
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.
Sonja Richter, Inapa Germany
Sonja RichterDirector Digitalization & Innovation & Head of E-Commerce, Inapa Deutschland GmbH
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!
Dr. Sophia Helmrich
Dr. Sophia HelmrichSenior Manager Digitalization and Innovation Project Management InnoNation Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V.
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May we introduce ourselves?
The QLab Team:

We are the QLab Team! We are supported by numerous external cooperation partners who assist us with their expertise.

Boris Gloger, QLab: We build the foundation of your one-stop-shop within a week. We make remote teams happy and successful.

Boris Gloger

CEO, Co-Founder

Boris Gloger is the maestro of agile working. He puts his heart and soul into establishing forms of learning that empower students to learn proactively, organize themselves, and ask the right questions.

Boris is an organizational developer and management consultant who is not afraid to implement visionary ideas. As a passionate cyclist and train traveler, he is convinced that we can create a sustainable future through appropriate mobility solutions.
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Andrea Kuhfuss, QLab: We build the foundation of your one-stop-shop within a week. We make remote teams happy and successful.

Andrea Kuhfuss

CEO, Co-Founder
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Andrea Kuhfuss is a traveler between different professional worlds. Her path led her from a background in art history to innovation consulting. She creates networks and connects the perspectives of a wide variety of people. Andrea is an inquisitive generalist who loves sharing her knowledge and supporting individuals, teams, and organizations to reach their full potential. Andrea is an expert in innovation, design thinking and agile working. She travels as a facilitator, speaker, coach and trainer in Germany and abroad. She is convinced that only by working together in multidisciplinary teams can we find creative solutions to personal, societal and global problems.
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Patrick Runge

Project Management, Business Development

Patrick Runge graduated in International Entrepreneurship, Management & Marketing. Already in mid-2021, he brought his interest in disruption, innovation, and sustainability to our first QLab Sprint.

As a project manager, Patrick prepares our various projects and accompanies the processes. In addition, he shares responsibility for business development at QLab itself. His goal is to advance holistic and sustainable solutions in communities and cities.

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Finn Faust

Research, Blog, Web design

Finn Faust studies psychology at Leiden University and social science at LU Honours College. He is passionate about traveling and following his vision to develop sustainable solutions for local and global human connectivity.

Finn has completed the advanced training Content Strategy for Professionals at Northwestern University, is a design thinker and storyteller. With his notorious curiosity and methodological knowledge, he is responsible for our scientific research, web design, and the QLab blog.

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Design Thinking Method Training

Online Workshop | QLab Think Tank GmbH

Language: German

Price: €450,- (€150,- for students)

November 22, 2023
09:30 - 17:30

Casino Futur, Bremen

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