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Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> Jack Harich wrote ""A terrific organizational learning experience has just occurred"". Maybe Jack is right, but not necessarily in the way he thinks. Can we be sure that the problem is that 1160 people did not respond? What if we just ha...

Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> Kim, you have done a great job in categorizing and summarizing all the thoughts and sugegstions in this thread. Just ""collapsing"" the outline and reading the headlines says a lot. My opinion is that we have reached the stage where we s...

Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> My vision for the conference in 2028 is that of ordinariness, where system dynamics has become so mainstream that sd-simulation is almost as widely used as spreadsheets and a natural part of office packages. The tools have been made useful and democratized,...

Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> I have 15 years experience as a manager in industry, 18 years as a management consultant working mainly with change and organizational development. My interest in SD came 12 years ago when I read ""Learning by modeling"" and realized tha...

Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> Touchy subject. Asking about income does have a touch of rummaging in somebodys drawer with underwear. The present Facebook debacle is very much about where we draw our privacy lines. Jack suggestion with ""Voluntary amount"" and "&...

Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> I think it is marvellous that we have this list. We should not be to hasty in migrating to another format. With a mail list everything turns up in your mailbox. In many web forums you have to be active and remember to check if there is anything new. My expe...

Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> I am glad that Bob moderates this forum, so that it does not turn into flaming as on many unmoderated sites, which I have turned away from. Maybe we should allow us to discuss the moderation policies. Bob is doing a difficult job, with a difficult balance t...

Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> Requisite Organization Theory also known as Stratified Systems Theory offers a rigorous approach to organizing, with a specificity which might appeal to many system dynamists but also for that reason is abhorred by many organizational and behavioral academi...

Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> I just did a quick scan of one-tenth of the members of the society. About 45% seem to be non-academics. So far most of the practitioners have in this thread said that they want to participate in a conference embracing academics and practitioners. More acade...

Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> Jim Hines asks ""Why not have a ""professional conference"" that's separate from the existing conference?"" A separate ""professional"" conference is more of a commercial risk, requires a hard sell...

Posted by Paul Holmström <ph@holmstrom.se> Obviously there are senior managers who operate in their own self-interest. Fortunately there are enough of the others, who could be our potential clients. I have consulted to upper management for 19 years and have yet to come across anybody with dubious mo...