6. Our advice

Morphological analysis is based on an Aristotelian ontology. A form (i.e. a solution) either has this or that characteristic, or it does not. By virtue of the principle of the excluded third, no hybrid is possible.

To put it another way, morphological space is a partition of forms, and therefore of solutions. What's more, these shapes are fixed; they don't change over time.

Is it relevant? If we take the morphological box shown in Figure 1, what place should we give to the hybrid vehicle? None. The trick of adding the value "hybrid" to the morphological parameter P5 is not informative.

If we now look at solutions associated with software, we can see a growing hybridization of solutions. Today's Web-oriented ERP has little in common with its ancestor from the 1990s. It is no longer morphological analysis that should...