Design Thinking For Dummies

About the Author

Dr. Christian Müller-Roterberg has years of experience in implementing design thinking projects in collaboration with a number of different companies. He works on projects with leading international industries and service companies as well as numerous start-ups. He is a professor in the areas of technology, innovation management, and entrepreneurship at the Ruhr West University in Mülheim, where he gives lectures, leads tutorials, and holds seminars. He also advises companies and holds corporate workshops, using methods such as design thinking, the lean start-up approach, and the business model canvas. He has authored several books and more than 30 German- and English-language publications in the field of innovation management and entrepreneurship.

In his professional life, Christian has been actively involved in several start-up projects and performed the due diligence audit for the IPO of a start-up company. He has also worked at Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research, where he oversaw the funding of research projects, particularly with respect to start-ups and cooperation between business and science. Preceding this, he was in charge of technology transfer at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, where he advised corporate management and consulted on the topic of patents. He completed a correspondence course in the field of industrial property rights and is also a qualified internal auditor in the area of quality management.

Christian’s doctoral ...