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Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> I have just received a worrying personal email that gives cause to build on Bob's comments below. It comes from one of the many young, expert, committed and highly enthusiastic members of our community, and says in summary that ...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Good proposal Jack - I did not include explicitly at the start the step of asking where we currently are, because I anticipated that anyone offering a view of where SD should aim for in the future would start from their own know...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Just a small correction - many academics have, and continue to have, very substantial involvement in serious real-world challenges. 10-seconds' thought identifies Peter Milling's work with Lufthansa and Volvo, Andy Ford on major...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> thanks Stefano and others who replied - I have since been contacted by someone involved, who seemed to know all about Jay Forrester and Limits to Growth, but not about anyone currently in the SD field - at least I did not recogn...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> I have added the mind map for this project to the download at www.gsdoffice.co.uk/isdc-strategy.zip . You should be able to view this map, which includes the notes added to each topic from each contributor's list-serve post, wit...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> We are way behind where we should be by this point, for which I apologise. I hope there will be a chance to share a little more on the work, and get some additional input, in Athens and afterwards. I have synthesised the respons...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Quite by accident I happened to hear of this initiative, which seems to be somehow backed by the European Commission and a number of weighty-sounding bodies, ... Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, Centre national de la Recherc...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Thanks Jack - I know there are great processes for brainstorming with groups, and were it possible both time-wise and physically to do it, they would be great. However, the challenges I mentioned before remain. I have asked 3 ti...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> This is indeed helpful Jack. It is very close to the process we attempted to initiate in April. It is of course complexified by the diffuse and distributed nature of our community, but the principles are still sound [even though...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Although responses to our call for aspirations for the field have been few in number, some have addressed various of the issues raised in Jay's paper on the next 50 years. Different contributions have expressed, for example, a n...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> thanks Bill - seems like two level answers to this question. If we regard the members of the community as the customers for this study, then that is exactly what we are doing by asking them [you] to tell us of their aspirations....

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Thanks Richard - my impression from diverse conversations over the years is that many would agree with these challenges. I have used force-field analysis for many years, and it certainly has a role to play. However, that role co...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Sorry this process has been quiet for some weeks. I was somewhat taken aback that we had only a short flurry of responses to the original request to hear people's aspirations for the field, after which the trickle of ideas dried...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Thanks for your wise guidance Jack. I'd just ask, though, that we not discourage people from resurrecting old questions [and answers]. First, there is a continuing risk that sound guidance be misunderstood or misapplied. In the ...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Thanks for all the responses on this. Maybe my thinking is too simplistic, but I thought the implied distinction concerned [a] trying to solve a specific, if complicated challenge at a point in time [though it may recur] vs. try...

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' - surely people commonly want models [of whatever kind] to help understand and better-manage something, in the absen...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> SDMAIL Dr John P Weldon wrote: > The 'rule' therefore needs to be substantially redefined along the lines > below. > > If a genuine 'problem' can be identified of smaller content and > scope than that of the system in which it r...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> As I recall my limited physics, temperature is something to do with the amount of heat divided by the quantity of matter amongst which the heat is spread ? If so, is it not the heat that accumulates, rather than temperature - to...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Jack has the purpose here just right. The ultimate aim is to end up with the widest possible set of plausibly achievable outcomes, along with some equally plausible actions and policies to bring them about - rather different tha...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Thanks everyone for the replies received so far - folk are clearly giving the issue some serious thought. There seems some reluctance, though, to address the question as posed, as Jack does well with his suggestion 'to have deve...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> I am pleased to announce that the new textbook Strategic Management Dynamics from Wiley should now be widely available, following its European launch a couple of months ago. See www.wiley.com/go/smd <http://www.wiley.com/go/smd>...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Sorry jack - My reply was not as clear as it could have been ... and maybe I'm not as clear about 'root-cause analysis [RCA]' as I should be either ... I am assuming we are trying to understand the deep, underlying reasons why s...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> This may be a slightly different take on the question, and I don't know about its theoretical validity, but some principles from an SD depiction of how things work seems to produce the following line of reasoning - at least in t...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> A small tip, but one I have found immensely useful I believe should be credited to Geoff Coyle .. A model should do what the real world does, and for the same reasons. The first clause hits the 'goodness of fit' criterion, but t...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> I am pleased to announce that Part 2, Chapters 5-7, of 'Strategic Management Dynamics', to be published by Wiley at the end of November, have now been released in PDF form. Chapters 1-7 are available at www.strategydynamics.com/...