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Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> Hi Mike and Richard Mike noted that there was already a Business S.I.G.. There are actually 28 members in this group that is not very active; One post now and then, with answers sometimes. Many members have given neither their curriculum...

Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> Hi everybody I think that Jim Hines is right, but that there should be three manifestations. One for the academics and practitioners interested by more theoretical papers, one for practitioners that are looking for more practical papers ...

Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> Hi everybody. I think that there is an ambiguity about the words 'professional conference'. In a conference there are people who present their work or ability to other people who listen. In the actual conference, people who present their...

Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> (was Future Development Directions) Hi everybody. Jim Hines is certainly right when proposing a professional conference. I was only a three hours drive from Nijmeegen and nearly went to the conference. But I was afraid of having not much...

Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> Hi Bill Large companies are more public than private and their boards have generally only a small percentage of the shares. They function more like political systems. Being egoistic like everybody, they will find their advantage elsewher...

Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> John Gunkler writes : > But business isn't about politics, ultimately, and we should not > confuse the two."" Having been in a boardroom (or two hundred > plus) myself, with respect I say that is simply wrong. To me very simply...

Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> Hi Kim What do you mean by policy-holders? The people, their preoccupations, their mentality, their positions etc. or the alternative policies they may choose which are directly related to the model in question. You write about the diffi...

Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> Keith Linard writes: < Despite the < work of giants such as Checkland, Coyle, Wolstenholme, Senge etc, there is < still no rigorous ""front end"", no ""business process methodology"" which < provid...

Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> Hi John About your agreement, you say that we must be disciplined. I agree with you that SD as a methodology needs a very high level of discipline. Unfortunately until somebody entering the profession knows what sort of discipline is req...

Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> Hi Richard Following your remarks that are a bit hard, but sometimes it is necessary if one wants to be heard. One first remark about the last thread. All the ideas where very personal and not based on facts. It seems strange that no one...

Posted by Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble@wanadoo.fr> Hi everybody. In the last thread, the word growth has been often used. But what kind of growth must we consider? Obviously the growth considered is a simple growth. But in the period considered about 50 years, the world population has be...