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Ladies! I appologize if you felt excluded from my Gentlemanly greeting. As the spouse of the first female chemical engineer to not be a librarian in DuPonts corporate engineering department among other firsts, I am quite familiar with the role of the female in a male dominated professional world. I ...

Gentlemen! I feel obligated to surface an alternative perspective to the role and future of system dynamics. I am troubled by the concept of System Dynamics and the System Dynamics Society defining itself in a way which isolates them from the broader (and less rigorous) community of "systems th...

>what I am calling here reverse modelling: given the simulated faulty >output of a simulator, can one reverse the process of simulation to >identify the faulty component in the model ? (e.g.: a given physical It sounds as though you are saying, "If the model draws the right line then it must be...

Hi Donella! I will honor Bob Eberleins request to quiet the ownership issue and respond to you directly offline. However there is one item you raise which I would like to address within the listserve. >How can we direct more excellent systems analysis and change-expertise to= the >big systems (where...

>Perhaps thats why I do agree with much of the "sell at the top" approach. >Those at the top will have the real problems which need addressing, wont >necessarily have the time to come up with a technical solution, and have >few above them to change their priorities. The problems of those i...

A short addendum to Jim Hines comments to mine regarding "selling" ideas: We should probably distinguish between the "team" involved in the modeling process and the entire organization of the client. My comments regarding selling are specifically targeted at the team. I do not fe...

Jim Hines identified several key issues regarding corporate-wide SD. My company responded to Van Bowen privately, sending him a copy of our most recent paper on Systemic Leverage (TM) which addresses broad corporate perspectives. It is my belief that unless we internalize the models we build and the...

Hi Fabian! Fun topic! No! (in the Spanish meaning of No) My responses >Is SD a Software ?=20 No >Could SD be taught/mastered in a 5 days course? No >Is SD self contained ? No >How would be defined a competent SDist ? Inadequately. Academics have tried to make SD a science IMO. But companies and orgs...

As a first step I must comment that I echo many of the sentiments of Nelson Repenning regarding accreditation. Academically degreed SD professionals are but a very minor fragment of the practicing SD community. As a degreed "futurist" (more formally "Studies of the Future") I am ...