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Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Your key point that 'value' is generated by the whole system implies, as you say, that it is meaningless to value any individual element - intangible or tangible - in isolation from the system of which it is a part. The exceptio...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> It may be my fault that the thread went down the 'data' path - apologies. Bob's questions below are dead right. I noticed afterwards that Bill's original post was angled towards SD's contribution to consulting specifically on or...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> 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 information. My impression is that others who use SD also place heavy emphasis on t...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Seems to me that SD offers a particular kind of solution to a particular kind of problem, but one that is near-universal - something is changing over time in a way we would prefer to be different from what is actually occurring....

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Whatever one thinks of how well the 'establishment' serves this community, we should recall that virtually all that commitment is voluntary and done for the love of it - a point I know Richard himself has made before. [I permit ...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> In his Keynote address at the Society conference, Professor Forrester made a persuasive argument that the progress of SD's influence might be accelerated if it were not hampered by its status in relation to most Universities' es...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> My apologies - there was an error in the URL for the sample chapter of this book. It should have read www.wiley.com/go/smd. Kim Warren Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> posting date Sun, 17 ...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Richard is puzzled why a separate business conference or day is needed. < Why should academics feel they are immune from practitioners, or vice versa? > .. the fact is that relatively few practice-based presentations are *offere...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> I can recommend a few managerial articles about the need for rigour in strategy .. Kevin P. Coyne and Somu Subramaniam, ""Bringing discipline to strategy,"" The McKinsey Quarterly, Volume 4 (1996), 14-25. Cla...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> Perhaps I don't understand important subtleties of the debates we keep returning to about models being 'right' or not and theories of structure and behaviour. But does this tendency reflect a lack of confidence in what we do and...

Posted by ""Kim Warren"" <Kim@strategydynamics.com> In an effort to gauge at least a piece of the invisible part of the field here in the UK, the UK Chapter recently tried searching for anyone claiming to teach anything SD-related in University courses of any kind. [We wanted to ...