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Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> http://blog.mint.com/blog/finance-core/a-visual-guide-to-the-financial-crisis/ ...a guide to the current financial crisis which pretty much resembles of a CLD ;-) . Cheers, Ralf -- Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> posting date Wed, 19 Nov 2008...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Dear Friends, via the THENEXOM network the following has reached me and I think there i= s some connectiveness to our field of interest. Perhaps some of you are interested to participate or shape new connection= s. Best regards Ralf Dear colleagues and fr...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Dear Systemdynamicists! Reading the German version of Jay W. Forrester's ""World Dynamics"" I ever = more think whether this could have been written today without changing a word? Reflecting on that question I stepped across the articl...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hello Valerie, you are giving a good point about the culture and non-translation (of major works) of SD work - to be true the same in Germany. Another point that I hear often from people (either academics or business): ""This stuff is really old...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Dear fellow system dynamicists! Bringing the field into the open public seems to be hindered by our own actions (endogenous!) as I could learn just minutes ago. There are already some pages at wikipedia (in English and other languages) and this afternoon ...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hi everybody, in his talk ""System dynamics - the next fifty years"" Jay W. Forrester is clearly stating (page 361 of System Dynamics Review Vol. 23, No. 2/3) that we ""must focus debate in newspapers, blogs, ... Have there b...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hello everybody, the discussion that momentarily is going on reminds me very strongly of a similar discussion on how to implement a ""lean management system"" in corporations (similar to what Toyota is practicing for the last several d...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Jay - you are making a very good point and we all -coming from very diverse eductional and business backgrounds- see system dynamics in very different light. How to get these views together into one single-route strategy (doesn't have to single-laned as a...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Dear Systemdynamicsts! As you have seen I am very interested in applying Lean methods in connection with System Dynamics and have posted some requests/comments on that here in the group. There still is -to my knowledge- not much connection but recently I ...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Kim, you have made an interesting point that struck my thinking. > Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> > > Thanks Jack - I guess I'm questioning the assumption that we always build models > *because* there is 'a problem...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Dear Johann, dear all, as a non-engineer working together with engineers (production, logistics, computing) for the last couple of years in the rail and automotive field I would like to share some different experiences. My educational background is econom...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hi everybody, Zahir has made an excellent point in questioning whether ""5-Whys"" lead to a goal. Isn't that rather a VISION that we have to set in comparision to CURRENT REALITY? This makes a totally different point as we have to get ...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hi Jack, hi discussion participants, I have been really struck by the interest this first posting initiated amongst the system dynamics community. Thanks a lot for starting it:-)) As I moderate a group on the questions around ""Lean Thinking&quo...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Jack's comment just has triggered new thinking about the modeling process. It seems -especially to SD newcomers as myself- specifically difficult to dive into the nice areas of modeling. As some of you already have pointed out earlier in several other dis...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Fred, you just have triggered one of my personal drivers why I got into SD last year: personal curiousity how to solve complex problems in which I am sometimes a direct active part of. Especially in large organizations, large scale projects (acted as a pr...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hello everybody, thanks a lot for your hints insights on speeding (or not) the beer game in class :-) . At the moment I am taking all your advices into account. As came already several times in your answers is the necessity to run it smoothly -especially ...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hello together, I have been asked to conduct several Beer Game sessions in order to show the shortcomings of of disrupted supply chain (bullwip effect, lack of trust, communication shortcoming, time delays, etc.). The challenge is to do the workshop (incl...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hello all, Due to growing interest I have initiated a new group on the above field: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SDS_SIG_Business I have the feeliing that the decisions managers take today in a growing globalized world have more and stronger uninticipate...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hello all, Due to growing interest I have initiated a new group on the above field: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SDS_SIG_Business I have the feeliing that the decisions managers take today in a growing globalized world have more and stronger uninticipate...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hello John, I can understand your concerns and perhaps the ""Systems Thinking Play Book"" (http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0966612779/102-0166930-2642508?SubscriptionId=0VJDVJ14KM0P0VXDCQ82) by Dennis Meadows and Linda Booth Sweeney is ap...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hello, Jean-Jacques makes a really good point as it is essential to get down to the same level concerning the problem articulation with your client (this could be your boss, another department's boss, plant manager, etc.). At 7:56 Uhr -0400 09.09.2007, SD...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> It seems to be that Jean-Jacques has started an interesting and challenging question on getting a good problem statement in order to work out a sustainable solution. > Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> ... > And to do that one...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Organizations have a tendancy to stay in their given paths, even when they face real and pressing problems, this can be called policy restistance as John Sterman calls that phenomen. Everywhere on the planet companies want to follow suit Toyota as this co...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hello everybody, just coming back from the ISDC in Boston a few days ago I have got a message this morning that the National Institutes of Health do publish some lectures (in video format) about the use of system dynamics in the healthcare sector. On Marc...

Posted by Ralf Lippold <ralf_lippold@web.de> Hello everybody, as I am trying to get off with my first causal loop diagram I am wondering whether there are general models around (on the internet?), that I can have a look at. Especially everything around production would be the kind of thing I am look...