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Posted by George A Simpson <gsimpso4@csc.com> I'm interested in models of innovation - why are some organizations successful and others unsuccessful at end-to-end innovation. And of course how does one move from the latter to the former. Does anyone know of relevant SD resources on this topic? ..geo...

Posted by George A Simpson <gsimpso4@csc.com> I recently hit yet another barrier my internal ""SD selling"" campaign, and on a second thread got a green light for development of a signficant SD application. This suggests that it is not ""SD"" that sells, but r...

Posted by George A Simpson <gsimpso4@csc.com> I am considering writing something about how business process simulation (discrete simulation) and business performance simulation (systems dynamics) complement one another in the domain of business strategy. Does anyone know of previous work on this top...

Posted by George A Simpson <gsimpso4@csc.com> I just have some sketchy thoughts which might be of interest for this thread; musings from a couple of weeks walking in the mountains of north Wales. The underlying question here is ""what is value?"". Value is what the economy create...

Posted by George A Simpson <gsimpso4@csc.com> Paul points out some interesting factors that may relate to growth of technologies, which may help us to define a model. I wonder about the reference behaviour pattern - can we look over the whole of history, asking when technology growth occurred and wh...

Posted by George A Simpson <gsimpso4@csc.com> The BBC Reith Lectures this year have the provocative title ""Triumph of Technology"" which started me wondering about the systems dynamics of the engine of technology growth. Clearly we have been on an exponential phase of growth for...

Posted by George A Simpson <gsimpso4@csc.com> WAS Problem Solving versus Optimization (SD5226) Responding to points by Jack Homer and Bob Cavana: I didn't see the points about ""Limits to Growth"" as an implied criticism of the field at all. In fact, they are suggesting that the ...

Posted by George A Simpson <gsimpso4@csc.com> There is an article in the April 2005 Scientific American that addresses your point: ""Shaping the Future"" by Steven Popper, Robert Lempert, and Steven Bankes. The point they make is that real decision-making is more sophisticated th...

Posted by George A Simpson <gsimpso4@csc.com> This is a fascinating thought on a topic I have been thinking about for some time. However the idea would need to overcome some barriers to be workable: Electron distributions are not like planetary ones - in that they are spherical, not circular (for th...