Most Interdisciplinary Professions?

[The Grim Squeaker]

What proffessions, or fields of work/research (private or even academic) require interdisciplinary capabilities to the greatest degree in order to succeed in them?

By Interdisciplinary I mean the ability to master or learn knowledge and/or skills in a variety of fields. For example not just studying computer science, but computer science along with mathematics for working on search engine algorithms or engineering as well when designing IT centers, or architecture which requires design skills for the interior and exterior of a structure as well as the construction process.

[irishmick79]

Law enforcement investigations can involve a pretty wide array of disciplines. A little bit of psychology, finance, science, history, and engineering depending on what you're investigating.

[Dave]

You might be able to make a similar case for business.

Assuming you want to do well, you need to know psychology, finance, law, history (of your business), culture (for the international markets), the basic science/tech/engineering surrounding your product, and so on.

[The Grim Squeaker]

You might be able to make a similar case for business.

Assuming you want to do well, you need to know psychology, finance, law, history (of your business), culture (for the international markets), the basic science/tech/engineering surrounding your product, and so on.

I thought of saying management in an immense amount of businesses, since you need to know about the business, your team's specialties and to work it all together as part of the big picture, but I've had this argument with board members before and didn't want to be the one to bring it up

[Bounty]

Law enforcement investigations can involve a pretty wide array of disciplines. A little bit of psychology, finance, science, history, and engineering depending on what you're investigating.

On a similar track, archaeology. A comprehensive site study draws from several fields, both historical and exact sciences. Geography, metallurgy, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, biology, textual analysis, economy, sociology, anthropology, anything that might be useful to assemble a picture. Most of it is outsourced to specialists but you still need to have a grip on the basics of each field.

[Fleet Admiral JD]

Law enforcement investigations can involve a pretty wide array of disciplines. A little bit of psychology, finance, science, history, and engineering depending on what you're investigating.

On a similar track, archaeology. A comprehensive site study draws from several fields, both historical and exact sciences. Geography, metallurgy, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, biology, textual analysis, economy, sociology, anthropology, anything that might be useful to assemble a picture. Most of it is outsourced to specialists but you still need to have a grip on the basics of each field.

Likewise, history--to understand why and how things happened, one needs to be able to understand the conditions of the time, including geography, metallurgy, &c. not to mention politics and the rest. Understanding the past requires one to understand more than just events.

[Winston Blake]

Robotics - mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering / comp sci, control systems engineering, various AI / machine learning / data processing techniques. Also optics if you're into machine vision.

[Themightytom]

Nonprofits tend to require a lot of diverse skills because they try to fill multiple roles with a single employee.

[loomer]

Actual journalism requires a pretty significant degree of cross-over with other specialized fields - as does writing anything other than modern day, hometown based fiction. For both you're looking at history, law, various forms of science, textual analysis, general research skills, general killing skills, and proficiency with extremely high levels of intoxication and substances.

I think I got some Hunter S. Thompson in there somewhere.