T-Shaped professionals : adaptive innovators / Yassi Moghaddam, Haluk Demirkan, Jim Spohrer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moghaddam, Yassi, author.

Demirkan, Haluk, author.

Spohrer, Jim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations.

Inventors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Business Expert Press, 2018.

Summary:

What skills are needed for the future? This book argues for T-shaped professionals who are adaptive innovators, with broad communication skills and deep problem-solving skills. We invite readers to explore this question from the perspective of academics, educators, business practitioners, those in government, as well as researchers trying to measure more precisely just what it means to be a T-shaped professional and adaptive innovator.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Individual Perspective

Chapter 1: Introduction: Toward an ISSIP T-Shaped Curriculum and Research Framework

Part II: Education Perspective

Chapter 2: An Integrated Transdisciplinary Educational Model and an Associated Faculty Development Model

Chapter 3: Bringing T to Community Colleges

Chapter 4: Force Field Analysis: A Way to Look at Challenges Facing Universities as They Try to Produce T-Shaped Graduates

Chapter 5: Rating and Ranking Universities, What Criteria Is Most Aligned with Creating T-Shaped Faculty and Students?

Chapter 6: "T" Is for Transdisciplinary

Chapter 7: Preparing the Curriculum to Prepare T-shaped Professionals

Part III: Employer Perspective

Chapter 8: Management Perspective-For T-Employees to Flourish: Be Mindful of the Culture You Immerse Them In!

Part IV: Governance Perspectives

Chapter 9: T-shaped Professionals in Europe Today and in 2020

Part V: Defining and Measuring the T

Chapter 10: Developing the Connective Tissue of the T

Chapter 11: MyT-Me-Your Personal T-Shape Scoring System

Chapter 12: From "T" to "Π": The Other Leg That Systems Engineers Stand On

Part VI: How to Create 21st Century Professionals? T-shaped Adaptive Innovators

Chapter 13: Research-Driven Medical Education and Practice: A Case for T-Shaped Professionals

Chapter 14: Conclusions

About the Editors

About the Authors

How to get involved

Index

Adpage

Backcover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781947843165

1947843168