New Ways of Working Network

Joe Ouye sent me an article from The Futurist he thought might interest NewWOW members. The authors, Bruce Tow and David Gilliam. founding partners of SynOvation Solutions, suggest that as the world becomes more and more specialized, it’s time to embrace a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.

They argue that today’s world is more and more specialized and this creates two major drawbacks:

1. Because specialization is not planned or coordinated, significant knowledge gaps occur between specialties.
   
2. The unique vocabularies developed by "specialist” and “subsepecialist” restrict their ability to communicate with others outside their fields.