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Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Frequently, part of the =91fundamental solution=92 requires stopping the =91symptomatic solution=92 in order for the fundamental solution to gain traction. Some = concrete examples drawn from observable situations would be ...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Distilled to its essence Jay Forrester wrote, the current crisis started with the Federal Reserve holding down interest rates to less than the inflation rate in housing, which produced a perverse incentive for investment an...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> The threads on Society Strategy Development have included much to do with the course of system dynamics methodology, which is another matter entirely. Why does the Society need a strategy? Its policies – its structure – det...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Kim Warren asks, ""How is it possible that such an important initiative could be started with apparently no knowledge or involvement from the top people in our community who have worked on this for decades?!"...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Gints Ozolins suggests a strategic target for SD could be to become officially accepted/recommended methodology for policy impact assessment in the national and international policy making institutions. Doesn't the Internat...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> >There was an extra piece in the printed version of this Guardian article >that didn't make it to the website and is even more interesting. Although interesting, the extra piece may have been edited out because Keynes died ...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> For more information and connection to today's system dynamics methodology, see ""Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Forrester and a Foundation for Evolutionary Economics"" by Michael J. Radzicki; Journal of Economic Iss...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> John Morecroft envisions celebrating success of system dynamics evidenced by a growing cadre of PhD faculty, graduates and students twenty years on. His vision is inviting and raises the question of how the Society might pa...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Jack Harich wrote: > Is this or related research available? How current and relevant >is it? I spent a large chunk of the past seven years trying to understand how and under what conditions clients (as individuals, not grou...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> The literature of management science provides potentially useful insight from experience in the development and use of simulation models for learning and for helping to resolve complex dynamic problems. Two a rticles german...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Bill, Have a look at the Strathclyde management science Web site and http://www.dmem.strath.ac.uk/~pball/simulation/simulate.html. It's not precisely what you asked but it may kick start your search. Strathclyde has extensi...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Monte Kietpawpan writes: You can modify your own plane as much as you want, but you cannot modify the social system, because it is not yours. Some notable recent exceptions to this rule include Ghandi, Mandela, and King. Al...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> >Dave Baker writes: I would like to use a model to help identify the ideal >number of [non urgent surgery] cases to schedule on various days of the week >to keep inflow smooth and relatively predictable for the unit staff. ...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Jim Hines wrote: >> In biological systems the probability of a change (mutation) is about >> one in a hundred million. In organizations, however, it's the rare >> person who doesn't want to try something new. In my high sch...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> If clients knew how to solve the problem at hand, they would hardly be inclined to engage a consultant in the first place. During a system dynamics consulting engagement, clients learn to solve problems with system dynamics...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Paul Holmström suggests that the International System Dynamics Conference should allow sessions where we cast aside the academic rigor in order to showcase good presentations of real world problems. While I agree with Paul ...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Jaideep Mukherjee writes: ""I strongly feel that SD got stuck with, and enamored by, its ability to create unexpected simulation-based insights."" I interpret the rest of that posting to be an argument f...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> System Dynamics is a population model -- skilled people who practice a methodology. We need to pay closer attention to our reproduction activities and breeding stock. People who profess system dynamics methodology are in gr...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> David Corben wrote: ""...I have never understood the affection that the SD community seems to have for climate models, models which do not pass some of the key tests of what we believe as system dynamicists consti...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> The listserv moderator mentioned the MIT System Dynamics Literature collection DVD. A review of the d-memo collection on DVD by George Richardson, Joel Rahn and me appears in System Dynamics Review, 21:1, 91-94. As we indic...

Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Dr. Bastani askes, "" Is there, at any level, a system dynamics model of human body structure and functions?"" The Archimedes model at Kaiser Permanente is developed with significant anatomy, physiology ...