It helps validate individuals as having what HR professionals refer to as "T-shaped skills" - a deep understanding of one or two areas combined with a broader, comprehensive understanding of that piece in the overall puzzle
We make recommendations based on experiences, provide feedback based on ideas that may be ours or may come from people who influence us, and connect with others in ways that sometimes make no sense (we went to kindergarten together, we both love the 80's band Kajagoogoo, we both collect urinal cakes shaped in the image of Kim Jong Il)
Duhon: Why is being a T-shaped person even better than having a 6-pack (at least in the world of information professionals?...But once we get beyond that, being a T-shaped person is a pretty important thing
SharePoint is a platform -- it can be shaped and molded. There is no such thing as a homogeneous SharePoint deployment
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The whole idea of an Information Professional, as defined by the CIP certification is, (and as Jesse Wilkins desribed it in his post " Are you T-shaped? "), someone who has a good, broad, knowledge of the different territories (knowledge domains), someone who has travelled the highways of the land, and knows enough to be able to get around each territory without the use of GPS, or SatNav
In business, this information is shaped into content that takes the shape of contracts, marketing materials, correspondence and more that is stored as documents, spreadsheets, video clips and audio files
For years, the nature and quality of digital transactions were shaped by the needs of online retailers
I am proud to be one among a group of people at AIIM who’ve shaped and reshaped our vendor activities over the past 10+ years and then delivered it, allowing us to maintain and grow important partnerships
Every time I hear that the cloud ate some bit of information that is no longer findable, the vision in my mind is that of a cloud shaped Pac Man passing across the sky gobbling up everything it can find
This mindset helped shaped every aspect of user touch-points with the innovation management environment – from idea submission, to commenting, to reviews, to technical support