Global warming, contemporary politics and the principle of least disruption (journal article)
by Tony Lynch and Bert Jenkins
from AQ, Vol. 79 No. 4, July - August 2007, pp. 30-35
"We must appreciate the intertial power of the Principle of Least Disruption, the depth of its grip on us, and then do all we can to overcome that inertia."
The benefit to the economy of early climate change action (journal article)
by Roger Jones
From Ecos, No. 137, June-July 2007, pp. 11-13
Climate change policy debates have been preoccupied with the economic cost of taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet recent assessments have reframed the question, focusing instead on the cost of inaction. In fact, the damage caused by unmitigated climate change may be the bigger threat to the global economy.
ARIS design platform : getting started with BPM [book]
Davis, Rob & Brabänder, Eric
Pessimism, computer failure and information systems development in the public sector (article)
by Shaun Goldfinch
from Public Administration Review Vol. 67 No. 5 September/October 2007
The majority of information systems developments are unsuccessful. The larger the development, the more likely it will be unsuccessful. Despite the persistence of this problem for decades and the expenditure of vast sums of money, computer failure has received surprisingly little attention in the public administration literature. This article outlines the problems of enthusiasm and the problems of control, as well as the overwhelming complexity, that make the failure of large developments almost inevitable.
