Workshop Facilitation, Consulting and Business Design
Think Data & AI Strategy and Products
We help translate your business objectives into a robust data & AI strategy, ensuring that every insight is grounded in real-world application. Through our co-creative and expert-led workshops and the Data & AI Business Design method, we accelerate data-driven decisions and ensure your competitive edge.
Why Work With Us
Empower Your Organization with a Data-Driven Strategy
Becoming a data-driven, AI-powered organization demands a fundamental shift in how you operate. The think. stage empowers your organization to move beyond surface-level strategies, enabling a holistic business design that seamlessly integrates people, processes, and technology.
- A Unique Co-Creation Model: Unlike conventional consultancies, we don’t hand you a generic roadmap. We co-create a future-proof data & AI strategy with your cross-functional teams, ensuring immediate buy-in and clarity of next steps.
- Design Thinking Meets Data & AI: With 21 specialized canvases, we systematically explore the right use cases, shape new business models, and align AI capabilities with tangible business outcomes.
- Seamless Progression: Datentreibers train. stage upskills your team to fully engage in strategic business design. Our transform. stage helps you bring these strategies to life. The think. stage lies at the heart of your transformation process, where strategic alignment and clarity take shape.
Through a series of interdisciplinary hands-on workshops and our Data & AI Business Design method, we help you bridge insights and actions to unlock the full potential of your data assets.
Build foundational skills and under-standing
Take part in our workshop series and develop a tailored data & AI strategy that aligns with your business goals.
Implement and execute your data & AI business.
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Align, Explore, Integrate: Crafting a Data & AI Strategy in Three Phases
Datentreiber´s think. stage is designed to systematically translate your business objectives into a tailored, actionable data & AI strategy. This roadmap reflects the three key phases of the think. process—focusing on aligning your strategy, exploring key business domains, and integrating consolidated findings into a tangible implementation plan. Every step is structured to ensure business value, real-world applicability, and sustainable growth.
Business Strategy Alignment
Set your data & AI strategy in motion by aligning it with your business goals and key objectives.
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Define strategic objectives and identify high-value data & AI opportunities.
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Focus on critical business domains that can drive growth and innovation.
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Establish criteria for prioritizing data & AI use cases, ensuring alignment with business impact.
Why it matters:
This phase ensures that every data & AI initiative supports your core business priorities, preventing wasted resources on non-essential projects.
Exploration of Business Domains
Gain deeper insights into the specific business domains that will benefit most from data & AI products.
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Analyze business models, processes, and user needs to find high-value areas for data & AI integration.
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Ideate and prioritize data & AI use cases based on feasibility, desirability, and business impact.
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Specify the technological, organizational, and personnel requirements necessary for each prioritized use case.
Why it matters:
By breaking down data & AI opportunities at a granular level, you can identify actionable projects with the highest potential for immediate returns.
Business Model Integration
Consolidate and integrate your findings and define an actionable roadmap that transforms strategic insights into real-world results.
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Select and prioritize next-best data & AI products for development and deployment.
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Consolidate technological, organizational, and personnel structures that support the data & AI initiatives.
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Finalize a cohesive strategy with clear steps for future implementation and measurable outcomes.
Why it matters:
This phase translates your strategic insights into a concrete plan, preparing your business for the next steps in its data & AI journey.
Choose Your Workshop Format
Our workshops are crafted to meet your organization at any stage of your data & AI journey. Grounded in Datentreiber’s triad approach—integrating business, user, and data perspectives—each workshop employs converging and diverging design thinking principles at multiple levels: across the entire series, within each individual workshop, and within every phase of understanding and strategizing.
Whether you’re seeking quick wins or aiming for a comprehensive strategic transformation, our workshops provide actionable insights and a clear, structured path forward using the Data & AI Business Design method.
Your team will take the lead in developing the strategy, while our team facilitates the workshops to guide and support the process.
The result is always concrete and actionable: a lean, flexible, and tailored strategy that fosters a shared understanding, defines specific use cases, and seamlessly integrates into your business model.
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Data & AI Quick Win Workshop
Data & AI Quick Win Workshop
Kickstart your data journey by demonstrating the immediate value of data and AI through rapid project development. This workshop focuses on identifying low-hanging fruits and delivering quick wins with minimal risk and cost. It provides a foundational understanding of the current state of your business, helping your organization to gain quick, actionable insights.
Participants Will:
- Conduct a quick assessment of the current business model, stakeholders, and data landscape to establish a baseline understanding.
- Identify one next-best-use-case with low risk and high impact to showcase the potential of data and AI in driving business value.
- Familiarize themselves with the Datentreiber methodology, setting the stage for deeper engagement and exploration.
Deliverables:
- A prioritized list of relevant use cases for one critical domain, ensuring alignment and clarity.
- A detailed next-best-project concept that emphasizes high value and low costs, enabling rapid implementation.
- A comprehensive list of critical assumptions and questions to guide decision-making and minimize risks.
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Holistic Data & AI Strategy Workshop Series
Holistic Data & AI Strategy Workshop Series
Develop a comprehensive, integrated strategy that aligns with your business mission and maximizes resource synergies. Serving as a parent framework, this workshop consolidates insights from domain-specific workshops to create a cohesive strategy.
Participants Will:
- Conduct a detailed business understanding, current state analysis, and value driver tree mapping to identify key areas for improvement.
- Identify and evaluate business domains for data and AI applications, ensuring strategic alignment.
- Consolidate domain-specific insights into a holistic strategy that guides organizational transformation.
Deliverables:
- A holistic data & AI strategy integrated with your overall business strategy, providing a unified approach.
- Alignment of data & AI strategy in finding your company’s unique competitive advantage and cross-departmental collaboration.
- Identification of synergies among human, data, and technological resources to maximize efficiency and ROI.
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Domain-Specific Data & AI Use Case Ideation Workshop
Domain-Specific Data & AI Use Case Ideation Workshop
Deepen your understanding of specific business domains by identifying and prioritizing use cases tailored to areas like marketing, sales, or production. This workshop focuses on applying Datentreibers triad approach of understanding the business, the users, and the data, to specific business challenges.
Participants Will:
- Conduct a thorough analysis of the chosen business domain, including value chains and analytics maturity.
- Identify and prioritize use cases that align with business strategy and have the highest potential impact.
- Develop a catalog of use cases, providing a structured approach to data and AI integration.
Deliverables:
- A prioritized list of domain-specific use cases aligned with strategic objectives, ensuring focus on the most impactful opportunities.
- A comprehensive catalog of use cases for the business domain, guiding future development efforts.
- An implementation roadmap detailing budget, personnel, training, and timelines for each use case.
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Data & AI Product Design Workshop
Data & AI Product Design Workshop
Transform initial product ideas into actionable plans with a focus on feasibility and user acceptance. This workshop provides the tools to design data and AI products that meet both business and user needs.
Participants Will:
- Analyze business objectives and user requirements to ensure products align with organizational goals.
- Develop a detailed concept for product implementation, focusing on technical feasibility and user support.
- Identify and address potential gaps in data, tools, and skills early in the process.
Deliverables:
- A business case and objectives for one specific data/AI product, securing stakeholder commitment.
- User requirements and solutions from a user perspective, ensuring acceptance and support.
- Technical and analytical requirements for product development, ensuring readiness for deployment.
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Data & AI Team Workshop
Data & AI Team Workshop
Enhance collaboration and refine your organizational structure, ensuring teams are aligned and empowered to execute the strategy effectively. This workshop is ideal for aligning teams with strategic objectives.
Participants Will:
- Conduct team retrospectives to gather feedback on past performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Develop team strategies and operating models that enhance collaboration and communication.
- Align team objectives with the overall strategy, ensuring cohesion and focus.
Deliverables:
- A team retrospective and prospective for critical tasks and projects, guiding future actions.
- A team strategy outlining vision, mission, and milestones, fostering alignment and motivation.
- A team operating model that clarifies roles and responsibilities, enhancing efficiency and accountability.
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Data & AI Strategy Review Workshop
Data & AI Strategy Review Workshop
Participants Will:
- Review the progress and impact of the current strategy, identifying successes and areas for improvement.
- Identify areas for optimization and adaptation, ensuring the strategy remains relevant and effective.
- Develop actionable recommendations to enhance strategy execution and impact.
Deliverables:
- An updated data & AI strategy aligned with current business strategy and market conditions.
- Reprioritization of data & AI use cases and products to exploit new opportunities.
- Identification of pain points and their root causes, providing insights for optimization.
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Data & AI Deep Dive Workshops:
Data & AI Deep Dive Workshops:
These workshops offer focused analysis and strategy design in specific areas such as data and AI architecture, organization, governance, and privacy design. They can be standalone workshops or add-ons to other stages for more detailed exploration.
Participants Will:
- Conduct an in-depth analysis of specific areas needing attention, addressing critical challenges.
- Develop detailed designs and strategies for improvement, ensuring alignment with overall organizational goals.
- Align these designs with the overarching business and data strategy, fostering integration and coherence.
Deliverables:
- A deep understanding of data & AI architecture, organization, governance, and cultural alignment.
- Enhanced interdepartmental alignment and collaboration, fostering a unified approach.
- Value-oriented, user-centered, and detailed system design ensures effective and sustainable solutions.
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Key Benefits of Our Data & AI Business Design Method
Before execution and implementation in Datentreibers transform. stage, it’s important to have a crystal-clear strategy. Our method ensures that this strategy is not just “good on paper” but deeply integrated with your organizational realities.
✔ Monetize AI Use Cases: Prioritize AI use cases with the highest value potential.
✔ Collaborative Workshops: Leverage interdisciplinary teams to build actionable, business-aligned strategies.
✔ Proven Tools & Templates: Utilize pre-designed canvases and templates for efficient strategy development.
✔ Hands-on Workshops: Address real business challenges with structured, results-driven workshops.
✔ Real-World Impact: Our methods have been successfully applied across industries for tangible results.
✔ Synergy Optimization: Maximize ROI by aligning people, technology, and data for seamless AI integration.
Enhance Your Strategy with the Data & AI Design Bench
The Data & AI Design Bench is your interactive strategic hub for turning strategic insights into action. Whether used in a workshop or independently, it provides pre-filled workshop templates, step-by-step tutorials, and our Data & AI Design Kit to ensure your data & AI strategy aligns with business goals.
It helps you map strategies, prioritize use cases, and create cohesive action plans while serving as a continuous reference throughout your journey. From Quick-Win workshops to full-scale transformations, the Data & AI Design Bench delivers practical, business-focused results.
- Library: Pre-filled workshop formats, the virtual Data & AI Design Kit, and tutorials with detailed step-by-step guidance.
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- Academy: Learn and ground your knowledge in data & AI, strategy, and business alignment.
- Community: Collaborate and share, network and learn, and discover and present new paths in data & AI strategy, with the integrated community on Miro Board.
What Clients Say About Datentreibers Workshops
We initiated a data strategy project with Martin Szugat. His clear methodology and diverse practical examples helped us formulate a data strategy and facilitated a comprehensive overhaul of our digital marketing approach, seamlessly integrating the two. As a result, we now have a ‘data-driven digital marketing strategy’ that we are actively implementing with the assistance of the Datentreiber expert network.
Head of Global Brand Experience & Digital Marketing
Weleda AG
Martin Szugat moderated an innovation workshop, helping identify and evaluate new business fields in the area of Data-Driven Business. His expertise and comprehensive knowledge of the Data-Driven Economy have given us valuable impulses for our work. Mr. Szugat structured our discussion and visualized the results. We thank him for the pleasant and inspiring collaboration.
Global Head of Data and Sciences
GfK SE
During the restructuring of the Data Consulting department, Mr. Szugat actively supported us in developing a customer-relevant service portfolio. In several workshops, he set significant impulses regarding methodology, content, implementation, and sales. His professional experience and his structured approach have proven valuable. Thanks to the resulting portfolio, we are now able to deliver true data-driven added value to our customers. We look forward to our continued partnership with Datentreiber.
Group Manager Data Consulting
TecAlliance GmbH (automotive)
Very Hands-On Approach to Solving Business Problems.
Client: Dr. Ralph Wirth
VP Data Science Solutions | Schaeffler
Meet Our Experts
Our strength lies in Datentreiber’s leading partner network of experts. No matter what challenges you face, we have the right expert for your request. Datentreiber partners cover various topics, including Data Literacy, Data Governance, Data Strategy, Data Product Design, AI, and more.
Our Thinking Capabilities – Broad Expertise in Various Disciplines
Data & AI Strategy Design, Planning and Presentation
Data & AI Product Design
Data & AI Business Models and Processes
Deep Dives into Data & AI Architecture, Organization, Governance, Privacy, Security and more.
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