Engineers need IT smarts, solid general abilities

摘要

As a common thread, engineers are going to have to be IT savvy. Depending on the industry and the application, the knowledge of IT will go up and down as a requirement to do their jobs in and effective and efficient manner. We are always going to have a need for specialists; the guys that are real focused on a particular area of the business. We will always need those people. But as a general rule, we need to have engineers that are more interdisciplinary that have the ability to touch more parts of the business, more parts of technology. They need to be really good at connecting blocks and making all that work. We will need them to be in an environment of the value chain as opposed to buckets of expertise. If you look at the future of buckets of technical knowledge, you will still need those individuals that have to go deep into each bucket. But for many of our businesses, individuals that can connect with those common threads across all those blocks will be at a premium, and you have to be IT savvy to do that. It is the way of the future.