2002 SD Conference Workshop Schedule

[Bob Eberlein]

Tentative Schedule for Workshops
2002 International System Dynamics Conference, Palermo, Italy

If you are planning to attend the conference, the following information
may be of interest to you. We are sending this information as it may
influence your travel plans.

This year, to accommodate the growing interest and attendance in
workshops, all workshops are scheduled for the last day of the
conference,
Thursday, August 1. The workshops will run in parallel sessions between
8
am and 1 pm. The titles of the Thursday workshops are listed below. In
addition to the Thursday workshops, the second annual Modeling
Assistance
Workshop is tentatively scheduled to take place in the exhibit area for
the duration of the conference. A post-conference workshop the "Third
Annual Strategy Dynamics Workshop" is scheduled for Thursday afternoon
and
Friday until 2 pm. Details on all these workshops will be posted on the
web in the near future. For all up-to-date information on the
conference,
please visit the conference website at: http://www.systemdynamics.org/

Best Regards,
The 2002 ISDC Program Committee

== THURSDAY WORKSHOP TITLES:
*Strategic Clarity: Driving Systemic Transformation
*How to inject system dynamics successfully into your curriculum
*Fast Track Strategic Modelling
*Digest Workshop: Automatic detection of most influential structure in
system dynamics model
*Introduction to the Feedback Phenomenological Method (FP)
*Starting a System Dynamics Program in your school for students in
grades
K-12
*Developing Causal Loop Diagrams Using Group Model Building Methods
*Where the Model Meets the User: An interface design workshop for
creative
learning environments
*Modelling Complex Enterprises: Combining the strengths of Cybernetics
and
System Dynamics
*Introducing/Using System Dynamics in Six Sigma Programs
*Creativity Workshop: introducing the method of unlearning

== The SECOND ANNUAL Modeling Assistance Workshop will run from Monday
to
Wednesday.

== POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOP scheduled for Thursday afternoon and Friday
until 2 pm. (July 31 - August 1):

Third Annual Strategy Dynamics Workshop

For information and reservations for this event contact Andrea Albertson
by email <andrea@strategydynamics.com>, phone +44-01844-275518, or fax
+44-01844-275507

Strategy Dynamics will be offering a workshop again this year on the
fundamentals and application of the Strategy Dynamics approach, led by
Kim
Warren and Rod Brown. We expect to change the format of this event by
adding some new material, rendering it of interest to the many that have
attended in the past. Innovative and practical, the Strategy Dynamics
approach has received praise from practitioners, educators and trainers
alike. Topics will include: an overview of Strategy Dynamics, the
resource-based view, creating strategic architectures, and pedagogical
issues regarding Strategy Dynamics. This year we will be offering a
break
out session in an effort to accommodate issues confronted by both
practitioners and educators in the application of Strategy Dynamics. The
workshop will immediately follow the System Dynamics annual conference
in
Palermo; the first session will be on the afternoon of August 1, and the
second session will be the following morning. As a word of warning,
please
do not hesitate in signing up, as with the release of Kims new book
Competitive Strategy Dynamics prior to the conference, this workshop is
likely to fill up quickly!

This workshop will accommodate up to 60 participants. There will be a
participant cost to cover operating expenses at the conference site. The
hours of this workshop are Thursday 1:30 pm - 6 pm, Friday 9 am - 2 pm.

Participants should bring laptop computer (if you have one). This course
is classified for "everyone," no special prerequisites required.
Participants will receive the slide deck and demonstration materials on
CD.

Please note: The conference organizing committee reserves the right to
change the program without notice.









Roberta L. Spencer system.dynamics@albany.edu
Executive Director phone (518) 442-3865
Jennifer I. Rowe fax (518) 442-3398
Assistant Director
SYSTEM DYNAMICS SOCIETY
Milne 300, Rockefeller College
135 Western Avenue
State University of New York at Albany
Albany, NY, 12222, U.S.A. http://www.systemdynamics.org/