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Greetings, I was just assigned to a government systems software development, acquisition, and support organization. Since Ive arrived, I have noticed the inter-relationships and feedback between the systems engineering, software development, configuration mgt, test/QA, and (my own division) customer...

Peter, have you looked at Gerald Barneys and the Millenium Institutes "Threshold 21" model. It isnt a completely perfect match (and they use Vensim, not iThink), but its darn close in intent. You can see it at: http://www.igc.apc.org/millennium/t21/index.html You can even download a run-ti...

Hi,

I saw your press release. Whats an "Animated Interstitial" and how do
you employ a web-based simulation to effect one???

enquiring minds want to know.

Robert Glitz, USAF
From: Robert Glitz <rglitz@erols.com>

Dan, you might want to check out this website: http://www.uia.org/uiademo/vrml/vrmldemo.htm It has "SD-like" descriptions of problems that are graphed in 3-D and viewable with a VRML browser. Its kind of neat being able to walk through a graph and look at it from all sides, but I havent qu...

Hi Bill, We just finished an SD model to study diversity levels in an organization (actually, within our org, the Air National Guard) and it relates various intervention strategies to their effect on levels of minorities and females. It doesnt address racism directly, but some of the effects can be ...

Greetings, has anyone built a model showing the inter-relationships between the stocks of Org Learning? Im thinking of something that can evaluate investment (time, effort, money, people, etc.) in, maybe, the stocks and converters that represent the Five Disciplines or something like that. Were tryi...

Jay Forrest wrote: > Once high-influence > (leverage) points are identified, we further classify them as either having > high exposure to other variables (relatively difficult to control) or > limited exposure (relatively easy to control). It is our experience that > highly exposed "levers"...

Greetings, The next meeting of the Washington, DC System Dynamics Interest Group will be on 22 May, 1997 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Location will be GDSS, Inc.: 1000 Thomas Jefferson Ave, NW, Suite 100, DC. Agenda will include a presentation of a new CD-ROM learning environment for System Dynamics. This...

> Does anyone know of any literature on the application of systems thinking > and systems dynamics as management tools in education administration? Interesting, I was just doing some "surfing" during a coffee break and noticed this link: http://www.connection.se/cogwheelschool/ It is entit...

Greetings, I was approached recently by a staffer for the foreign policy section of the national Catholic Church here in DC. They have received a semi-promise of some semi-funding from a may-be donor who is interested in sponsoring some simulation models to help focus church policy on "predicti...

jimhines@interserv.com wrote: > Did each sub-group have its own modeler, or was there a single modeler/modeling > team for the entire effort? How large was each subgroup? Did you have to > divide the model up into sectors in order to assign a "portion" to each > subgroup? Jim, We divided t...

Jim Hines wrote: > An effective team size might be six to eight. If more people are > interested you might set up a couple of levels in the team: The Team > includes everyone, the "core" includes the most interested six or eight > people who meet most frequently. (Incidentally, one way to ...

Greetings, when we set up our teams, we looked mainly for subject matter experts (SME), who were: highly experienced, well respected by peers for their professional knowledge, good communicators, and had access to senior leaders. The only SD training that we provided was "Just Right" train...

John Wolfenden wrote: > Can anyone tell me of other examples that I can use to reassure people? > Perhaps we could have a register of current and recent projects? John, This is a good project. I can use the examples also. We are trying to instill SD methods in parts of the US Dept of Defense. So far...

Greetings, The monthly meeting of the DC Systems Dynamics local interest group has been postponed to 23 January. The location will be the Virtual Reality Lab at the National Defense University. Call Prof. John Saunders to RSVP. Details from John follow: ###################################### Reminde...

Greetings, The second meeting of the Washington, DC System Dynamics special interest group (until we decide on a name for ourselves) will be: Date: Monday, 02 December Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm Where: GDSS, Inc. Suite 100, 1000 Thomas Jefferson Ave NW (Georgetown), Washington, DC 20007 Who: Mr. Fred Af...

Greetings, At the recent System Dynamics Society conference in Boston, we met a number of people from DC who expressed an interest in meeting regularly to swap war stories, share expertise, and advance our own personal mastery in the field. There will be an informal meeting of anyone interested in p...

Greetings, We are getting ready to bring together a team of subject matter experts for a modeling project and wed like to send out some read ahead material to "prime the pump" on some aspects of the project. Does anyone know of or have access to a good primer on SD that we can mail out? It...