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Dear Jean-Jaques, you are surely right when you write that my purpose is not clear. It may even be that I should not be engaging in a modelling effort on this: I'm not the "owner" of the hypothetical problem of SD growing slow, and speeding this grow does not depend on decisions I can take...

Hi Jean-Jaques, sorry, I'm off on a vacation for one week, so I did not visit the forum regularly! The starting-point for what now starts to look like a modeling effort was my uneasy "feeling" about what the SD-commuinty undertakes, the worries about slow growth, together with professor Fo...

Dear Jean-Jaques, thanks for the critical questions in the three posts. I think the apparent dificulty in quantifying the variabels in the "sketch" (diagram) has to do with: 1) units of measure have not been defined; 2) many of these variabels will need quita de deal of "guessing"...

Dear Jean-Jaques, thanks for both posts. What first started out as a much smaller diagram to visualize aspects of the mail message I sent, started to grow throught he interaction with Stefan Groesser. I think we will go on trying to convert the diagram into a "real" model. So the questions...

Sorry for the confusion with the "iThink" file. I attach an image of the diagram for those who do not use "iThink/STELLA".
Martin

I try it again. In the meantime, there was some interaction with Stefan Groesser, and the model has evolved a bit. Hopefully now it will work.

Martin

I may be forgiven for borrowing the “designing the future” word; some of the recent discussion about the death, future and growth of system dynamics, about the “profession” and about the design o better organizations seem to move around a common theme. The “system dynamicist” has been compared with ...