Dr. Christoph Fuchs has reached the highest level in the expert career track for the topic of Lifecycle Management at Siemens. He is currently the Senior Principal and Key Expert in its corporate development consulting department. Serving both as thought leader and practitioner, his projects share a common focus on initiating and driving impactful architecture development for the most complex products and systems. He has a proven track record where some of his projects have humbly achieved global recognition and success, and operates across various industries. His problem-solving approach and way of thinking have deeply been impacted by experiences made early on in his professional life. Starting his career in 1996 as a Product Manager in the field of Telecommunication at Infineon Tech., he later personally experienced the disruption of Siemens' Communication Unit. From these experiences, he realized and made it to his passion to focus on the importance of holistic product development, stressing constant adaptivity to global trends and integrating flexibility into products that allow them to grow with market changes. He holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Karlsruhe. In 2004, he joined the consulting group for Innovation Management of Siemens Corporate Technology. He sees this book as a way to share his accumulated knowledge and experience on how to create successful products, by passing on what enables and helps him to move from, and transform, an innovative idea into a tangible, real product.

Explains product development using a blend of Design Thinking, Design to Value, Modularization and Agile
Provides guidance in turbulent markets, when innovation and disruption are essential.
Includes various step-by step tutorials

Introduction.- Part I: Disruptive Innovation.- Part II: Frameworks.- Part III: Framework Tutorials.- Part IV: Tools.