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Silly assumptions in spreadsheets lead to silly forecasts. Silly assumptions in system dynamics models produce silly results, too. When a bunch of people act foolishly, its not a methodology driving the foolishness. It might help to find out what causes sober people to act like fools, but knowing th...

Bill Braun wrote: "Does this leave room for the self-directed learner?...I wish to continue to learn, and going away to school at this juncture in my life is not feasible. Id like to know where I am deficient and continue to hone my skills in those areas." I took 15.982B, Advanced Techniqu...

Good question from Daniel; I hope everyone with direct involvement will respond. Applications at Cigna: business process reengineering planning, project management policy design, service office capacity planning, project management training games, product introduction planning, service office site r...

Steve Cavaleri is professor of management at Central Connecticut State University. He uses a microworld I developed for his undergraduate courses in management systems for a couple of years and may still be using it. The microworld, called WellDone!, is written in commercial and student versions and...

Jim Hines asked, "What do you (and others) make of the many queries in this list asking for models on this or that topic?" I have a directory on my hard drive called OPM (Other Peoples Models). When I cant express a dynamic the way I want, theres always something in my OPM library that ins...

There are time-series data about the growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web that you can access at <http://www.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html>. In addition to the data on the site, there is a list of sources for the data including the volume of emails, Usenet groups and posts,...