NOTE
For every complex human problem there is a well-known solution: neat, plausible, and wrong. – H. L. Mencken, “The Divine Afflatus” (1917)
What are “practice essays”?
This is the place for more personal writing: less lesson, more thinking out loud. Some are analytical and some are my personal view, with no scientific evidence behind them, and I say so myself. To me, practising writing means writing first to see what you think, and then correcting it.
Essays
- A model of software transformation, from MIS to ERP: a five-stage model for recognising when an organisation is ready for ERP.
- In praise of seeing the gourd: benchmarking and the danger of going blind to the roots; let us see the “gourd”.
- MCDM does not understand love: why multi-criteria decision methods work poorly in emotional choices.
- Without keeping your ideals, selling your location ends in shame: the East-West and North-South corridors and their cultural effect; when income decides the ideals.
- Diplomacy, my love, where are you?: why the case of Haj Ahmad Motevaselian stays open, and a new metaphor for the language of diplomacy.
- Philosophising about marriage today: the reason for marriage to exist when its old needs can be met elsewhere.
Related: Lipstick on a Pig and Analysis and systems analysis.