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Compact Knowledge Business Development
Become a pro in business development!
Contents
New business: What, when, and why?
- What is new business: examples from different industries.
- Objectives: Promote growth, spread risk, and increase returns.
- Recognizing the optimal moment
Recognizing opportunities and risks
- Analyze markets online/offline.
- Anticipate developments and continue with scenario analyses and trend forecasts.
- Create competitor profiles and assess competitive intensity.
- Identify and assess risks on the customer side, among competitors, the government, and within the company.
Develop your new business strategy
Get to know the most important tools:
- Business Model Canvas
- Design Thinking
- Strategy Map
- TOWS matrix
Practical application: Develop your own new business idea and get feedback from the group!
Create a compelling business plan
Learn step by step:
Perform capital requirement planning.
decision makers with profitability and security.
Optimize your plan with visualizations (KPIs), sensitivity analyses, and an implementation plan.
Practical application: Create your own professional business plan!
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- Learn all about the latest methods for trend recognition and business model development!
- Develop a future-oriented strategy for your company – flexibly applicable to any industry!
- Use agile working principles for greater flexibility and customer focus!
- Work directly on your own idea during the seminar—including expert feedback!
- Present your final business plan confidently to the board or investors!
As the person responsible for new business, you are constantly faced with new challenges: climate crisis? Digitalization? Rising customer expectations? This training not only training you ways to solve such problems; it also provides you with a toolbox: from trend research to business model canvas, you will learn all the important tools – applied in a practical way in your individual project!
Methods
Trainer input alternates with practical exercises such as case studies (best practices or real-life examples from the participant group). In addition, you will work with checklists/planning templates and receive feedback from a decision-maker's perspective.
Recommended for
This training at: Business development managers (and junior talent), members of management, sales and marketing managers, and project managers. employees venture capitalists can also benefit from it.
Questions about the seminar content
Successfully developing new business areas begins with understanding new business and the opportunities it presents. In this training —using examples from various industries—how new business opportunities arise and what goals can be pursued through them. You’ll also learn how new business helps drive growth, diversify risks, and increase returns. In addition, you’ll discover which factors help you identify the optimal time to develop and implement new business ideas. This will enable you to recognize potential earlier and make more informed strategic decisions.
Tapping into new business areas is one of the most challenging tasks in business development. In this training how to systematically identify market opportunities, evaluate their potential, and develop viable business ideas based on them. You’ll explore approaches for strategically tapping into new business areas and developing long-term growth opportunities. This will enable you to capitalize on growth opportunities effectively and actively shape your company’s future viability.
A successful new business strategy is based on systematic analysis and the right methods. In training about key business development tools, including the Business Model Canvas, Design Thinking, the Strategy Map, and the TOWS Matrix. You’ll discover how these tools can be used to evaluate business opportunities, develop strategic options, and pursue new ideas in a structured way. This creates a solid foundation for building new business areas.
During training , you training directly on your own new business idea and use it to develop a professional business plan step by step. You’ll learn how to structure a capital requirements plan, present economic potential in a clear and understandable way, and convincingly demonstrate profitability and financial stability. In addition, you’ll discover how to further refine your business plan using KPIs, sensitivity analyses, and a concrete implementation plan. Feedback from the group will provide you with additional insights to help you refine your idea in a targeted manner.
Today, those responsible for new business face challenges such as digitalization, rising customer expectations, and changing market conditions. In this training , you training how to identify such developments early on and respond to them effectively. You’ll explore tools such as trend research, modeling new ecosystems, and agile project management approaches. You’ll apply these methods directly to your own project. This will help you actively shape market changes, reduce internal resistance, and drive new business areas forward more successfully.
During training practical skills that will enable you to independently drive innovation projects within your organization. You’ll benefit from a set of tried-and-true methods that will give you the confidence to present your case to senior management. The in-depth discussions and peer feedback will help you avoid common pitfalls when implementing projects within your own team and enable you to confidently fulfill your role as a business developer.
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Start dates and details

Monday, 07.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 08.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Wednesday, 10.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 11.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Monday, 26.04.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 27.04.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, September 9, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, September 10, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.