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- Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:02 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: QUERY Limits to Growth Plan B
- Replies: 26
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QUERY Limits to Growth Plan B
Posted by ""Saeed, Khalid"" <saeed@WPI.EDU> Mike’s summary of past patterns of population growth and other concomitant trends is very helpful. When it comes to formulating a dynamic hypothesis, my observation is that we tend to tap again the historical information that creates an...
- Sun Dec 16, 2007 7:56 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: QUERY Policy paradox and SD
- Replies: 21
- Views: 36816
QUERY Policy paradox and SD
Posted by ""Saeed, Khalid"" <saeed@wpi.edu> Implementation is an important aspect of any policy design. Without attention to implementation process, policy recommendations would only issue a moral statement. A modeling exercises excluding policy implementation mechanisms may, how...
- Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:02 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: QUERY Getting a Good Problem Statement
- Replies: 36
- Views: 51895
QUERY Getting a Good Problem Statement
Posted by ""Saeed, Khalid"" <saeed@wpi.edu> Jim makes a good point. Defining a problem as a reference mode allows one to develop at least a preliminary mental model subsuming the phase relationships between the various trends in the fabric we call a reference mode. Several years ...
- Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:57 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: QUERY How to promote good work
- Replies: 26
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QUERY How to promote good work
Posted by ""Saeed, Khalid"" <saeed@wpi.edu> I'd like to add a word about the idea of a System Dynamics Institute, which was discussed by the President's Committee at the 2007 Boston conference. I and my WPI colleagues have volunteered to develop a concept document outlining its r...