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Jim Hines wrote >Cant you also compare model structure to observed structure? Could we also get properly grounded on such issues? In language that works in the Strategy field ... - resources (i.e. stocks in SD) determine performance in a well-established manner ... customers, staff, capacity ... thi...

I did not mean to imply (and tried not to say) that feedback doesnt matter - it is clearly as universal in the real world as accumulation. But feedback without accumulation is close to meaningless, too. So my fear is that eliminating the powerful and unavoidable maths of integration in order to simp...

Two observations 1 - in spite of all the good reasons Bruce mentions as to why governmental policy making is likely to be far from optimal, we do seem to be creeping forward into an era of increasing administrative competence - economic crises and inter-national conflicts between developed nations a...

Whilst it may be an impossible aspiration to be completely objective, there is a worry if our model-building efforts are so unavoidably subjective as this discussion suggests ... it would be good for SD to be seen as, if not exactly a science, then at least something of a profession. One characteris...

Thanks for this. I have heard others remark at conferences that the population of SD-awares has proved pretty tough to drive forward (if we take everyone as our aspiration). In our activities at London Business School, John Morecroft and I are having some success with the Strategy field by what I th...