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We believe employing a systems perspective provides individuals, groups and organizations a greater likelihood of creating the future they desire with fewer unintended consequences. The endeavor is to promote further awareness and understanding of the power and value of employing a systems perspective and create content essential to enable one to develop and evolve the skill and ability to think and act systemically. Join us on LinkedIn...
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Ackoff Virtual Inqiry Center (AVIC)

There is a discussion underway at Systems Community of Inquiry focused on developing the concepts for a network of Ackoff Virtual Inqiry Centers (AVIC) located around the world. Early on, the original vision for AVIC, offered by Dr. John Pourdehnad, was that AVIC serve as a nervous system for the Systems and Design Community in Dr. Russell Ackoff’s name. With this belief, Dr. Pourdehnad also made clear the need for AVIC to be designed Ideally and created by the stakeholders themselves. Drop by the Ackoff Virtual Inquiry Center (AVIC) development page and see how it's going.

Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM)

An embedded model which is a global model of the sustainable development process to explore the trade-offs between economic and human development was developed by Luis Gutierrez. SDSIM builds on the foundation of the LIMITS TO GROWTH models developed at MIT by Donella and David Meadows from 1972 to 2004.

SystemsWiki Delicious Bookmarks

The URLs that were previous listed in this segment have been migrated to the Delicious. Over the next few weeks the majority of the bookmarks in SystemWiki will also be migrated to Delicious with links to show specific cross sections of the bookmarks.

SystemsWiki Model Library

There are 200+ models in the library in various forms including Casual Loop, Stock & Flow and Simulation Models and there are simulation models in numerous modeling applications.