The Future Belongs to Interdisciplinary Systems Engineering

From the current issue of Harvard Business Review - How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Companies by Michael Porter and James Heppelmann:

"Smart, connected products require a fundamental rethinking of design.  At the most basic level, product development shifts from largely mechanical engineering to true interdisciplinary systems engineering.  Products have become complex systems that contain software and may have as much as more software in the cloud.  That's why design teams are shifting from a majority of mechanical engineers to a majority of software engineers, and some manufacturers, GE, Airbus, and Danaher, are establishing offices in software engineering hubs like Boston and Silicon Valley."