Study programmes such as Business Analysis usually confront students with case studies in the exercises, which can be completed in a reasonable amount of time. Open, virtually unsolved cases can lead to topics for Bachelor's or Master's theses.
Based on the content of the lecture, case studies of increasing complexity are discussed in exercises on business analysis and similar subjects. In some cases, complex cases are analysed and systematically worked on by teachers and students for more than six hours until one or more possible solutions / approaches are available. While simple cases have to be constructed by lecturers or abstracted from the real world at the beginning of the course in order to reduce the complexity to a comprehensible level, complex cases can originate from current procedures and scenarios and be introduced into the course after preparation.
In some cases, there are scenarios in which there is currently no solution or no adequate methodology for the solution. Such scenarios are also presented and discussed by lecturers. Finally, they can serve as a starting point for jointly finding a topic for a Bachelor's or Master's thesis.
