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Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Ilker asks: ""I would like to know the criteria that might be used to select among 2 competing Distributors or Wholesalers in a Beer Game setting."" He goes on to ask, ""If I have 1 Point-of-Sa...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Bill Braun wrote: Causal loop diagrams are a good tool start that conversation. I ask students to state the problem as they perceive it (their mental model of the problem symptom) and then to form an hypothesis of what is g...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Isn't ""all models are wrong"" a reduction of a complicated set of conditions to a descriptive assertion, as in ""Model = FALSE""? If so, it's not too useful. Posted by ""Ji...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Leonard Malczynski asks, ""What has happened to the application of the methodology in social science?"" Here are a couple of references that might help answer the question. David Lane, Operational Resear...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Justin Lyon wrote, ""...we are at the tipping point for system dynamics (what I like to call 'simulation science')."" Even though computer simulation is important in the system dynamics methodology, it i...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Ines Winz writes: ""Is someone aware of a very good qualitative/phenomenological PhD thesis on Systems Thinking/System Dynamics?"" In published book form: Group model building as mutual persuasion by Eti...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Chander Chawla writes: ""I am new student of System Dynamics...I booked half an hour meeting with an executive to share with him what SD is and how it is used in decision making. Does anyone of you have a PowerPoi...