Excessive reliance on fashionable solutions to problems

For responses to problems to appear credible, especially to government agencies and funding agencies which have established methods and procedures for the problems within their mandates, there is considerable pressure for solutions to conform to a pre-existing pattern. Alternatively, when some new approach has received wide publicity as being successful, it becomes fashionable as a way of demonstrating that fresh approaches are being used. In neither case are the agencies capable of exploring new solutions on their own merits and in terms of their appropriateness to the problem. Innovation is thus severely inhibited whilst creating the impression of openness to it.

1. Over-reliance on convenient beliefs
2. Inadequate research on proposed solutions to problems
3. Excessive emphasis on fashionable problems
4. Dependence on intellectual fashions

1. Fashionable operations
2. Fashionable mental disorders

1. Simplistic technical solutions to complex environmental problems
2. Exaggeration of merits of particular solutions

1. Unfettered liberalism
2. Lag in policy conceptualization
3. Institutional preoccupation with obsolete problems
4. Failure to integrate knowledge to empower humanity in response to the global problematique

1. Proliferation of management theories
2. Misguided advocacy of fashionable values

1. Relying on fashionable solutions to problems
2. Promoting social innovation
3. Problem-solving
4. Addressing unfashionable solutions to problems

1. Unfashionable
2. Self-reliance
3. Reliance
4. Problem
5. Overreliance
6. Excess