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This has been a very interesting dialogue so far. I wanted to add one observation. No one has explicitly mentioned the distinction between single- loop and double-loop learning. The former is when an organization learns better how to hit its targets and goals. This, implicitly, is the form of learni...

Im placing a query on behalf of a USM colleague, Jack Jensen, who is looking for any information from the Systems Dynamics world into modeling that has been performed on the drivers of an individual’s tendency to file a long-term disability (LTD) insurance claim. For example, he is interested in see...

Jay Forrest makes a valuable point: "1) There is a difference between deriving a model from text and developing a model in an interview process." As Jay Forrester and others have argued, perfecting the art/science of sufacing mental models (as the precursors to SD models) is a worthy goal....

I guess that, even though I agree that his first argument would be easy to implement, I find Bills second argument a bit more compelling. Anyone who finds information requests from non-members to be intrusive and burdensome can simply ignore them. People who want to help others, whether or not they ...

One place to start might be Wrightson, M. (1976). "The documentary coding method." In R. Axelrod (Ed.). The structure of decision: The cognitive maps of political elites. Princeton, NJ: The Princeton University Press. <FontFamily><param>Arial</param> Axelrods book is all about how to creat...