Find I-Shaped People for Innovation

Monday, 20 July 2009 07:56 by kpotvin

Bill Buxton, Principal Scientist at Microsoft, and author of Sketching User Experiences:  Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, proposes an intriguing model for innovation.  In a recent BusinessWeek column, he suggests that I-shaped people are desired for an effective cross-functional team.  Buxton explains:  “These have their feet firmly planted in the mud of the practical world, and yet stretch far enough to stick their head in the clouds when they need to. Furthermore, they simultaneously span all of the space in between.”  Buxton wrote that this idea came together for him when he asked Brian Shackel, one of the early pioneers of human-centered design, if he had noticed any particular attributes that distinguished the students that went on to do remarkable things compared with the rest.  Shackel’s answer:  "The outstanding students all had an outstanding capacity for abstract thinking, yet they also had a really strong grounding in physical materials and tools."  Do you have an I-Team?

 

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