“Step one is to let go of old narratives and find inspiration in everyday intersections, overlaps, and patterns.” (Doorley & Carter, 2024, p. 199).
Survival of a field of study (e.g., human performance technology, HPT; performance improvement, PI), depends on the field’s ability to sustain its long-term relevance. The concept of relevance relates to how information produced from a field of study can address and help resolve real-world problems. Bastow et al. (2014) explained this in the following:
“For any societal [social science] research to be successfully applied in public or organizational decisions it must be


