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Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <jim@ventanasystems.com> >>>> The organization has a problem: who is contributing Tom's point is important. In many organizations, hardly anyone makes a contribution as an individual. Rather the contribution is made as part of a group. One way around this ...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <jim@ventanasystems.com> George's posting concerning how constraining a reference mode is, is quite right. My only nit would be that I'd define the term ""system dynamics"" more expansively than he implies. So, at least some of what he ...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <jim@ventanasystems.com> Wade, 1. Too much mutation prevents evolution of complex structures (this is what I said in my original posting). That point is just not controversial - a mutation in a complex structure is more likely to be harmful than beneficial...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <jim@ventanasystems.com> Jean-Jacques, You're right that defining a problem in terms of reference modes pre-supposes that people have already decided to use SD. But in the absence of that decision, it's unlikely that you'll get a problem statement that sub...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <jim@ventanasystems.com> Wade Schuette brings evolutionary processes into the discussion of why organizations don't function better. It turns out that evolution (toward something fitter) has a few requisites that are probably not well satisfied by most org...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <jim@ventanasystems.com> Jim T., The ""one in a hundred million"" means one error for every one hundred million nucleotides replicated. Jim H., Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <jim@ventanasystems.com> posting date Sat, 8 Sep...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <Jim@ventanasystems.com> Richard Stevenson asks the key question, why separate conferences? a. First, they CAN be separated because they are not meaningfully synergistic. The orientation of a professional conference is what's established in the field; the ...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <Jim@ventanasystems.com> A couple of people have mentioned practice-based presentations at our annual conference. Here's a more radical thought: Why not have a ""professional conference"" that's separate from the existing conference? A ...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <Jim@ventanasystems.com> A couple of people have mentioned practice-based presentations at our annual conference. Here's a more radical thought: Why not have a ""professional conference"" that's separate from the existing conference? A ...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <Jim@ventanasystems.com> A couple of people have mentioned practice-based presentations at our annual conference. Here's a more radical thought: Why not have a ""professional conference"" that's separate from the existing conference? A ...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <Jim@ventanasystems.com> >>>> A small field...if it is to succeed [must] publish collaboratively >>>> with people from other fields... I think Jack is encouraging us to do good work. But to avoid possible misinterpretation: 1) We must have grown much faste...

Posted by ""Jim Hines"" <Jim@ventanasystems.com> A comment and a question: 1. Comment: A long time ago, I complained to Swami Chetanananda that system dynamics grew slowly while other approaches seemed to grow like weeds (in 1988 the example was expert systems, which had come fro...