This summer, our new master's practice seminar ran for the first time – and it exceeded our expectations. 39 students in eight teams stepped into the shoes of digital consultants, tackling real-world challenges hands-on and building working solutions with Microsoft's low-code and AI tools. Seven organizations opened up genuine use cases and shared real-world challenges: HAVER & BOECKER, BOLLE, FIEGE, Bistum Münster, Montanhydraulik, W. Neudorff and Dr. Oetker – an exciting group of Hidden Champions, well-known family businesses and more!

The results, presented live to each partner, spanned a remarkable range of modern digital solutions: from Power Apps that digitise paper-based processes end to end, to AI agents in sales that capture customer-relationship knowledge automatically, to a multi-agent system for automated contract review and an AI assistant that resolved real support tickets flawlessly. But what set the seminar apart was less any single tool than how the teams worked. They approached each brief holistically – starting from the real business problem, understanding the process and the people behind it, weighing the economic case, and only then designing and building a solution end to end. They didn't just ship a prototype; they delivered the thinking of a digital consultant – and the partners felt the difference.

Interested in taking part in the next edition? Practice partners and companies are welcome to register their interest already now: https://forms.office.com/e/bZXsfbArXQ