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Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Bill Braun"" <bbraun@hlthsys.com> writes: > I am involved in a project where I may need to contrast SD and discrete > event simulation. I want to avoid significant investment until the > future path becomes clear...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Bill Braun"" <bbraun@hlthsys.com> writes: > I am involved in a project where I may need to contrast SD and discrete > event simulation. I want to avoid significant investment until the > future path becomes clear...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Bill Braun"" <bbraun@hlthsys.com> writes: > > Forgive me for taking a single sentence out of context. I think you are right > > on the mark and it summarizes my mental model succinctly. Your observations > > matc...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Bill Braun"" <bbraun@hlthsys.com> writes: > > I wonder if our concept of accountability would benefit from a mental > > model change? Accountability is commonly taken to be something expected > > by others (by vi...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL nickols@att.net"" <nickols@att.net> writes: >Just out of curiosity, where, how and when does an SD practitioner acquire > the knowledge, skills, insight, wisdom and competencies associated with > effective implem...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Jean-Jacques Laublé"" <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> writes: > Up to what point is it in interesting to explore a problem with successive > more and more elaborate questions, starting with a very simple questio...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL BalaporiaZ"" <BalaporiaZ@schneider.com> writes: >> information. After introducing myself, the manager's first statement was, >> and I quote; ""Zahir, I know how this works. You ask for my watch and >> t...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Bob Eberlein"" <bob@vensim.com> writes: >> A short comment on this. There is a lot of discussion of data in this >> thread but as I understand from the original query data was intended >> to mean all information ...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> writes: >> My take on this is that SD provides a rigorous up-front architecture >> for how things actually work, so that data collection seeks the >> appropriate informatio...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> [ OD Organizational Development SSM Soft Systems Modeling SD System Dynamics ] I've been thinking about this for a while, but recent threads (perhaps especially comments from Fred, for he and I and perhaps others of you are on an OD mailing ...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Tom Fiddaman"" <tom@ventanasystems.com> writes: >> A few more wishes for discussion 2.0 expressed: Tom, Thanks for aggregating the comments people have suggested. I'd like to add a few: - - No rewriting of header...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL"" <Richard.Dudley@attglobal.net> writes: >> I agree with Paul (below). A web only format would draw less >> participation, I believe. However, the ability to include diagrams >> within postings would be a plus. I...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> writes: >> In his Keynote address at the Society conference, Professor Forrester >> made a persuasive argument that the progress of SD's influence might >> be accelerated i...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> >> Posted by Bob Eberlein <bob@vensim.com Jay was troubled by the lack >> of thoughful responses by experienced people, and so am I. Mr. >> Stevenson has not put forward any proposal about what should be done, >> but simply leveled criticism...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Jean-Jacques Laublé"" <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> writes: >> Sounds good too. But is group modelling enough to avoid the risk of >> loosing the support of people who control the resources or fail to be >> im...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> Mike, I won't disagree with your premise. I am curious: are you talking about new ways to show the results (which I take from your Rosling example -- Gapminder is a very interesting tool, well worth exploring -- see also http://gapminder.org...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> > ""SDMAIL Jean-Jacques Laublé"" <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> writes: >> The only explanation I can find about this fear of naming SD, is that >> there must be, or must have been a lot of studies pretending to use >> ...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> >>""SDMAIL Jean-Jacques Laublé"" <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> writes: >> I could find where I am living a consultant that could have saved me >>years of hard work, or eventually found a student if SD was taught in >>t...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> >""SDMAIL James Melhuish"" <james@melhuish.org> writes: >> (3) What I am concerned about, and why I wrote the original post, is >> the awareness or recognition of our *field* by the general population >> (scientific or la...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> ""SDMAIL Erling Moxnes"" <Erling.Moxnes@geog.uib.no> writes: >> I have not seen any reactions to Monte Kietpawpan's suggestions to >> change the name from ""system dynamics"" into ""systemdyn...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> One more set of points, and then I'll stop. First, will we be consistent, or is System Dynamics above Programming (which, for computers, is different than programming for a TV network -- or will the TV networks want the capitalized version?)...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> Well, the title may be a bit misleading, but it's stimulated by the recent discussions here about the use of SD in business and government. I sometimes sense we make out SD to be a big deal: something one does after a lot of education or tra...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> >> Posted by ""Jim Thompson"" <james.thompson@strath.ac.uk> Each >> engagement involved one or more SD practitioners working for more >> than 250 hours within an organization, usually with a team of three >> to thirty ind...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> Jaideep, It's good to see you here again, even if you are from the dark side now. :-) For the last 10 months, I've been using a free simulator professionally and for fun. I've made a well-received presentation regarding its use at a conferen...

Posted by Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> >> The idea that the field has been growing at a rate of 10-20% per year >> sounded like an old estimate to me, so I decided to look at some >> actual Jack, Of course, there's the question of how to measure growth. Assuming that SDS membersh...