T-Shaped Professionals: Adaptive Innovators - Paperback

by Yassi Moghaddam (Author), Haluk Demirkan (Author), Jim Spohrer (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Yassi Moghaddam, MBA, M.Sc., is the executive director of International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, a non-profit organization that has partnered with IBM, Cisco, GE, and JST to promote people-centered innovation. Yassi has 25 years of service and product innovation experience with Fortune 500 companies like VMWare, Cisco, Northeastern University, Wells Fargo, EMC, and New Venture Partners. She holds an MBA from Columbia University, a MS in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and BS in EE from University of Oklahoma.