Starting a business
Expert leadershipSmall businesses and compact teamsCross-team operating practice

Business idea validation

Learn to test the problem, audience, alternatives and willingness to buy in the “Cross-team operating practice” specialisation. This programme for small business teams asks you to produce a business-idea validation file, then verify interviews confirming a genuinely important problem. At expert level, you will evaluate strategic scenarios, document uncertainty and transfer the method.

Estimated workload · 16 hr 3 min · including workshops8 modules · 24 lessonsCompletion certificate

LEARN · PRODUCE · PROVE

A programme built around a professional outcome.

Start from your situation, practise a professional operation and build Business-idea validation file · expert operating standard and decision scenarios — small business teams.

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Assignment

evaluate a complex decision and document its governance while building a business-idea validation file for small business teams

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Learning case

Ateliers Nacelle — a business idea being tested against real customers

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Expected evidence

interviews confirming a genuinely important problem

Final assessment: defend an evidence-based decision and make the approach transferable using the business-idea validation file and the criterion interviews confirming a genuinely important problem. The certificate confirms programme completion; it is not a state-recognised qualification or CPF certification.

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Your working template

A blank template and completed example to download in every lesson.

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How your work will be assessed

Four explicit checks before completing your work.

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Varied activities

21 workshop minutes in the first lesson, followed by audits, simulations, comparisons, calculations and decisions according to the subject.