Why we need border-less interdisciplinary thinking

In a speech at IIM Calcutta, Dr Mashlekar(ex DG, CSIR) made some interesting points that triggered some further thinking. While I reproduce those salient points below for the sake of brevity, I would suggest reading that entire speech in full there(http://nif.org.in/Mahatma_Gandhi_Memorial_Oration). His points were

1.  Explosive advances in adjacent sciences are shaping up the future of core disciplines. New paradigms of “seamless sciences” and even “seamless engineering” are emerging. 
2. We work and think in isolation. The examples are
•  Mixing is a challenge in diverse disciplines. In the case of astrophysics, one is concerned about the mixing of the interior of stars. In mechanical engineering, it is combustion. In environmental sciences, we are concerned with mixing and dispersion in the atmosphere. Oceanography deals with mixing and dispersion in oceans. Chemical engineers are concerned with mixing in chemical reactors. Physiologists look at mixing in blood vessels. Bioengineers are interested in mixing & aeration in bioreactors. Geologists deal with mixing in the mantle of the earth. All these diverse mixing phenomena occur on diverse time and length scales, differing by several orders of magnitude. However, these disciplines rarely benefit from each other, and discovery & rediscovery of concepts and ideas is common place.
• Scientists from different disciplines have turned to the study of the human mind.  These days one meets engineers who work on speech perception, biologists who investigate the mental representation of spatial relations, and physicists who want to understand consciousness. And, of course, psychologists continue to study perception, memory, thought and action. However, I have not seen a meeting of these computer scientists, linguists, neurophysiologists, anthropologists, engineers, and so on! Understanding of mind cannot be made possible without meeting of minds of all of them.
3. We need to ensure that our mind moves through diverse disciplines in a borderless way. The ability to correlate and link the non-obvious can lead to major breakthroughs. In the management context, an example is creation of  flexible management structures by using the concepts of self-organisation in chemical and biological systems- van der Waals model of Management

Prof JR Varma made a similar point in his Mar-11 IIM Ahmedabad working paper on improving MBA(Finance) education, where he sought the integration of conventional investing theory with neurology, economic history and other relevant disciplines. 

And in fact, the oft-cited fact of 'MBA broadening one's horizons/perspectives' can be attributed to the exposure to cross disciplinary functions and hearing those diverse perspectives during class discussions. But these are incremental innovations so as to say. 

The biomimicry(adapting insights from Nature to create business models) is in its infancy in India, with a few salient exceptions like Prof Anil Gupta, who devised and named an entire organization inspired by the honeybee behaviour. And in the field of organizational dynamics, this has ample potential, given that there is ample debate today about the role of and purpose for existence of corporates.