SSIP's T-shaped movement is about open innovation for people's knowledge (what), skills (how), attitudes (why), and networks (who) - know what, know how, know why, know who.

1. T-shape Perspectives
August 2014

2. Tsummit.org

7. Basics

8. Employers

9. Government Priorities:
Entrepreneurial Researchers

10. Academic Priorities:
Liberal Arts + STEM

11. Design Thinking:
Customer Empathy + Problem Solving

12. Expertise Theory:
Interactional + Contributory

13. Need for T-Shaped Professionals:
ICT-enabled deep expert-thinking and broad complex-communications
Science and Engineering
Math and Operations Research
Computer Science & Info. Systems
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Business and Management
Economics and Social Sciences
Business Anthropology and Design
Organizational Change & Learning
Broad
Deep
Broad across many…
Deep in at least one…

14. Changing Nature of Work:
Increasing demand for expert thinking and complex communication
ICT tools augment human performance in these two key areas
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Based on U.S. Department of Labor’ Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)
Expert Thinking
Complex Communication
Routine Manual
Non-routine Manual
Routine Cognitive
Increasing usage of descriptive terms

15. T-Shaped Professionals
Many disciplines Many systems
Deepinatleastonediscipline
Deepinatleastonesystem
Many projects, award winning in at least one
(challenge: improve a real-world system)
ICT augments human performance: problem solving (deep) and communication (broad)

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SSMED – T-shaped professionals are adaptive innovators
Social Science
(People)
Management
(Business)
Engineering
(Technology)
Expert
Thinking
Complex Communications Across Fields
Tower of Babel
“Biggest problem in business
is people don’t know how to
talk to other people in the
language they understand.”
Charles Holliday, CEO Dupont
Based on slides by Jean Paul Jacob, IBM
Across industries
Across cultures
Across functions
Across disciplines
=
More experienced
More adaptive
More collaborative
Designed together