Terry, the ideal of applied learning, applied research is to "bridge" theory in concrete practice. You do this here very well. You define the terms, or theory, and then you detail how to implement them in the workplace. It works.
Your humble servant here read an assigned research article for his Ph.D. on incrementalism in public policy, politics. For some reason, the author's name escapes this writer right now.
Howevere, the author contrasted incremental change with "root-branch" change, deep top-to-bottom overhaul, or what we would call transformational change today.
Incrementalism triumps as a rule because in Newtonian physics "for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction." This creates gridlock or allows only incremental changes, a nibble here, a nibble there.
The Internet on the other hand is a transformational, root-branch change, and it is reorganizing how we live and work from top to bottom, unless we are Amish or Mennonites who live happily beyond, outside the modern technological structures that upend us.
Your humble servant here just experienced such a "reaction" by a state agency in Wisconsin against his proposal to improve management information systems in the criminal justice and health agencies.
Forget logic. Turf rules as a rule.
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