Who are they?
Inquisitive people willing to try new things.
I heard the term from a friend of mine (a Prof in IIT, Delhi, India) last May. I read about it this morning in "The Ten Faces Of Innovation". I was Googling for "T-Shaped People". I came across this presentation.
I found more than what I wanted. A few perls from this presentation:
Design Is Never done
My Subject Isn't my Object
Insights come from observing the Market
Map Interactions to discover new Innovations
Find Patterns that yield Ideas
[...] I picked up this term from reading "The Ten Faces of Innovation" and was inspired enough to blog about it here. You can find a discussion about it in this interview of Tom Kelley by Tom Peters. We are talking about someone who has an area of deep interest or expertise, which is the vertical part of the T, but then he is multi-disciplinary in that he has knowledge of or empathy for other disciplines. [...]
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