[1] He has worked with global business leaders and taught many executive programs on product, process, and technology development, customer experience design, operational improvement, company turnarounds, and innovation strategy.
Thomke's research and publications have focused primarily on the process, economics, and management of business experimentation, innovation, and product development.
His work has shown how advances in experimentation have fundamentally changed how new products, technologies, customer experiences, and business models are created.
Experimentation Works was selected as one of the ten best business and technology books in 2020 by Inc Magazine and Forbes.
Before joining Harvard Business School, he worked at McKinsey & Company, The Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart, and Hewlett Packard Medical.