The New Professional
As we enter the creative age and ideas drive the world, I believe we are entering a technological renaissance, where form and function are equally important. In the past all technologies were driven on introduction of features (function). The design of the technologies are important and sometimes more important to people. Also, the addition of understanding where people fit into the process is also important. I have a vision for the new professional that I want to reintroduce -
“The new professional has deep business and technical skills, interdisciplinary expertise, and the ability to deliver the value of those skills to customers or clients.”
This statement is a pretty loaded but I want to introduce to you a 3D model of this new professional.
The new professional needs to have both business and technical skills and a context to deliver those skills in. The context can be the natural sciences such as biology, chemistry, nanotech, etc. or financial, health, gaming, movie, etc. This allows the new professional to be more interdisciplinary in nature than in the past. The context is becoming an increasing important piece to a new professionals knowledge and skillset. More and more employers are looking at professionals today to have this interdisciplinary expertise. With biotech, nanotech, chemtech, energy tech, and other applied science disciplines becoming more critical to today’s economy. In those contexts, professionals are going to need to be able to bring innovative ideas from an idea to product/service and then into the marketplace. These new professionals need to understand innovation and how innovations are introduced to a society/community. This new creative age is bringing about about a new renaissance. Anything new being introduced is going to need to have both form and function and something that will appeal to customers or clients.
