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Understanding What You Already Know

Experience, on an on going basis, represents something between complete novelty and boring confirmation. Between those two extremes experience connects, to different degrees, with past learning and where that experience extends our understanding it represents learning. And much of that learning we are simply not aware of because it happens in the background while our focus is on other things. With an improved awareness of the learning that has already happened you can substantially improve your capacity to create the future you desire with far fewer unintended consequences. This paper is intended to support that improved awareness. More...
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Ackoff Virtual Inquiry 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. Drop by the Ackoff Virtual Inquiry Center (AVIC) development page and see how it's going.

SystemsWiki Delicious Bookmarks

URLs previous listed in Reference & Resources segments have been migrated to Delicious. The majority of the bookmarks in SystemWiki will also be migrated to Delicious with links for 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.

Virtual Systemic Inquiry (VSI) How to leverage dialogue, discussion and debate?

We believe there is greater potential for creating value from our dialogues, discussions and debates within Systems Thinking World, or any other discussion group, on LinkedIn than we are currently realizing. As such Virtual Systemic Inquiry is an endeavor to understand the situation and develop an approach to improve the value created in this environment.

Virtual Systemic Inquiry (VSI) Projects

While the Virtual Systemic Inquiry (VSI) approach is far from complete it is considered to be at a point where further refinement is likely to be best uncovered though the use of the approach itself rather than simply continuing to noodle it. As such this is a VSI project to determine future VSI projects. I know it makes my head hurt also.

Productivity Tools

A set of web based tools that have been found to significantly enhance personal productivity.

Design Thinking

A set of general principles associated with Design Thinking from Dibyendu De, a set of principles that one should always consider when thinking systemically about a situation.

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.