What is really being lost in wormholes?

Strategic Alignment: What Is Really Being Aligned?

Over the years, aligning IT and business strategies has remained an important, but sometimes elusive, challenge for executives. At the same time it has garnered quite an interest among the research community. This paper seeks to provide one explanation why alignment efforts struggle. The paper first addresses the distinction between strategies as plans and strategies as patterns in decisions an...

What Being a Successful Principal Really Means:

This paper presents an international perspective on successful principals. Data from the International Successful School Principals’ Project, now in its sixth year and presently in eight nations and over sixty schools, along with a critical review of the international literature on successful principals provide the basis for a discussion of both similarities and dissimilarities across nations. ...

Rediscovering what is never lost.

What is complexity science, really

The need for a special issue of Emergence on the question “What is complexity science?” is disturbing on several levels. At one level, one could be forgiven for thinking that the voluminous literature generated in recent years on chaos and complexity theory must contain a clear exposition on the definition, mission, and scope of complexity science. That this exposition has not been forthcoming,...

What is Text Analysis, Really?

In which the author revisits the question of what text analysis could be. He traces the tools from their origin in the concordance. He argues that text analysis tools produce new texts generated from queries through processes implemented on the computer. These new texts come from the decomposition of original texts and recomposition into hybrid new works for interpretation. The author ends the ...