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It seems to me that earlier this year there were postings about 3 SD conferences to be held in the USA this summer. As I recall, one was more directed towards educators, one towards practitioners, and one towards academia. When looking around the Web, I can find information only about the upcoming 9...

Jay wrote: >It appears to me that the "boom" in popularity since Senges book has >resulted in a lot of different descriptions of the field - some of which are >somewhat in contradiction. As the field becomes "muddy" from confusion Yes. I see an increasing number of people who cla...

A while back, someone was looking for material on SD and churches. I had seen an article, but I didnt know the reference. Over the weekend I found it. It is "Long Range Planning and the Church" by the Rev. David Wasdell in "Long Range Planning", Vol. 13, June 1980 (pp. 99-108). R...

> >For my research I seek models (here, systems dynamics) of product >development processes. I had a paper done by folks at DEC which looked at There is a book by Pugh, I believe, on system dynamics which is built around a Dynamo model of a product development process, as I recall. I have that book ...

George Richardson wrote that we can view our models as discrete samplings on continuous processes (Moderators Paraphrase) : Im not by any means an expert at this, but I have often viewed the world the other way around: we do continuous modeling in system dynamics because its easy. However, birth and...

David Lane wrote: (Hosts paraphrase: That system dynamics tends to focus on closed systems and this gives rise for disagreement. Hosts note: I think Davids purpose here was to focus on different uses of terminology and not give legitimacy to an oft cited criticism of system dynamics.) This is perhap...