Books: Utopia for Realists: and How We Can Get There

Books: Utopia for Realists: and How We Can Get There: A New Source of Hope.

A NEW SOURCE OF HOPE Some might say that the title of this book has an oxymoronic quality: can a realist believe that a Utopia is achievable? By the end of the argument I remained uncertain, but there is no doubting the author’s command of his evidence or his degree of commitment to his cause. Bregman is described as ‘one of Europe’s most prominent young thinkers’, and this book became a bestse...

Vertical Alignment of Process Models - How Can We Get There?

There is a wide variety of drivers for business process modelling initiatives, reaching from business evolution and process optimisation over compliance checking and process certification to process enactment. That, in turn, results in models that differ in content due to serving different purposes. In particular, processes are modelled on different abstraction levels and assume different persp...

Flexible learning: how can we get there from here?

The term “flexible learning’ has been used by many institutions with regard to their methods of course delivery, particularly by those seeking to attract external students. In almost no cases is the use of the term justified, since the flexibility concerned relates only to certain very limited components of the learning process. This paper outlines the very real problems that are faced by insti...

Can We Get There From Here?

To evaluate libraries' public services and public services personnel, the library profession as a whole must agree about the purpose and role of public services.

We can get there from here.