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Jerry Winston said: >Around the world, consultants are advising governments that it is >important to optimise the "performance" of every sub system. This is >often given as one of the main reasons for "performance measurement": >to allow the performance of every sub system to be ...

Jon Noble asked for the "best prediction for a complex system, say a commodity price for the next 6 months". What an SD model can do is incorporate the effect of your actions, based on your prediction, on what that price will be. Does best prediction mean "most likely result if I just...

For those of us not familiar with the acronym, could someone please
tell me what FWIW means, or point to a glossary where such symbols
are explained?

[FWIW - For What its Worth - interesting that noone has complained
about CLD (Causal Loop Diagram) ]

Pelham Barton
mme5pmb8@novell5.bham.ac.uk