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by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.mai
Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:59 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: QUERY Shifting the Burden CLD Quandry
Replies: 10
Views: 18142

QUERY Shifting the Burden CLD Quandry

Posted by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.maine.edu> Gene, I found your web pages very interesting. My only issue with what you did with the Shifting the Burden archetype came at the very end, when you said the following: With this structure the effective strategy of implementing the s...
by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.mai
Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:26 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: ANNOUNCE PCT and an economic emergency
Replies: 9
Views: 16156

ANNOUNCE PCT and an economic emergency

Posted by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.maine.edu> Bill Powers's noticing of positive feedbacks in the economy is not exactly news. Similarly, his call for a working model of the economy is, what, 20-30 years behind the times. The National Model at MIT has probably already done many ...
by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.mai
Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:29 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: QUERY Modelling price determination
Replies: 2
Views: 4136

QUERY Modelling price determination

Posted by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.maine.edu> Richard, I believe the Vensim ""Molecules"" include several (at least three) that relate to pricing in much the way that you suggest. Perhaps Jim Hines, who wrote his SD dissertation on this topic and I think was ...
by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.mai
Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:26 am
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: QUERY SD model of the US Economy
Replies: 3
Views: 4018

QUERY SD model of the US Economy

Posted by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.maine.edu> I'm pretty sure that the folks at MIT have been developing and refining what they call ""The National Model"" for years. I don't know what kind of access they provide to other scholars. I know that there have been...
by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.mai
Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:50 pm
Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
Topic: QUERY "Flawless Consulting" and SD
Replies: 17
Views: 12215

QUERY ""Flawless Consulting"" and SD

Posted by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.maine.edu> I have found this discussion's emphasis on data to be interesting. I have taught from Peter Block's ""Flawless Consulting"" for many years, and one of the things he emphasizes is the emotional aspect of consulting...