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As SD practitioner interest grows in bringing the benefits of SD to organizations, some have chosen to involve increasingly large groups of people in the modeling process. In these instances, then perhaps the process (and associated large number of roles and responsibilities) suggested by Bob Glitz ...

Bob: This message seems to imply the SD Society has located to SUNY Albany. Is this the result of the Society decision that was to have been made by last November regarding a funded, "real" office for the Society? Just curious. Paul PKucera@aol.com [ For others who may also be curious, Rob...

Bob: You might consider "Systems Thinking: Lets Just Get On With It" authored by HPS Managing Director Barry Richmond. It first appeared in the SD Review, Volume 10 Summer-Fall 1994. Its available at the HPS web site: http://www.hps-inc.com. You may also request a reprint from HPS Customer...

Ed: In your message to the SD List Server (SD0306), you attributed a stock flow model to me though it was not my handy work. But I did want to respond to your post with the attached, very simple ithink model ("Ed_Drain.itm"). In your discussion of draining water/drug absorption adioactive ...

Gene: The reality of systems is that everything is connected to everything else. When building CLDs, there is a tendency among many folks to not pay enough attention to the boundaries of the system under examination. CLDs may quickly turn into spaghetti; the ESSENCE of the process/system is often lo...

Bill Cutler wrote: "The antidote to spaghetti-itis is hierarchy." I am not convinced that hieracrchies and decompositions of the ilk described are necessarily helpful in generating the insights SD practitioners typically seek. Folks (most often BPR types) apply reductionist decomposition a...

William Steinhurst wrote: (SD0231) "Its amazing how much light a little history can shed on a semantic debate! I am often startled and disappointed that so many disciplines fail to teach the historical evolution of their theories and practices." To a point, I would agree that there is valu...

Lutz: I noted with particular interest your comment about the relationship between system dynamics and game theory. As a graduate business student a few years back, I saw some synergy there, but even now Im unable to articulate it very well. Id be very interested in knowing more about how others vie...