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The System Dynamics Society is an international, nonprofit organization devoted to encouraging the development and use of system dynamics and systems thinking around the world. With members in seventy countries, the Society provides a forum in which researchers, educators, consultants, and practitioners in the corporate and public sectors interact to introduce newcomers to the field, keep abreast of current developments, and build on each other's work.

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General issues in the field - The purpose of the forum is to make it easier to communicate, and especially to follow different discussion threads. To access the forum follow this link.

News

Future International Conference of The System Dynamics Society
          2012, July 22 – 26, St. Gallen, Switzerland
          2013, Dates To Be Announced, Cambridge, MA

Symposium: Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the launching of Limits to Growth, the first report to the Club of Rome, a joint symposium entitled “Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet” will be hosted in Washington, DC by the Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institution’s Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet. Please see the attached program statement.
 
The symposium will be held on Thursday March 1st, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. in the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian at 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW on the National Mall. A reception will follow. If you are interested in attending, please contact Consortia@si.edu for more information.

New Scientist Features Article on Limits to Growth -- 40 years later

A preview of the article titled “Boom and doom: Revisiting prophecies of collapse” is available online at the link below. The article was published in the Jan.7-13 2012 New Scientist magazine. It is a brief survey and appreciation of The Limits to Growth, 40 years after its first publication. The full article is accessible to subscribers.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328462.100-boom-and-doom-revisiting-prophecies-of-collapse.html

Announcing an important change to Society members' online access to the System Dynamics Review

Membership Services at our publisher, John Wiley & Sons, has implemented changes in online access to the System Dynamics Review. This year Wiley is migrating to a new access method, so there will be a fundamental change to access to System Dynamics Review works via the publishers’ website. New registration instructions will be sent directly by Wiley to all members. Please note that this applies to all System Dynamics Society members, even if those who have set up their access in the past under the old system. (The old access arrangement will be discontinued soon.)

The email message from Wiley will have the subject line: “Wiley Online Library Activation Instructions for Society Membership Online Access”). In order to continue online access to the System Dynamics Review, each member (as they renew or join) will receive a message directly from Wiley (“wileyonlineaccess”) describing how to migrate to this new access method. Please follow the new activation instructions it contains.

In case of further query about the migration instructions or online access issues, please contact Sharon Brooker, Membership Services Specialist: sbrooker@wiley.com. Or, please feel free to contact the Society office.

Jay Forrester

Jay Forrester has been inducted into the 2011 IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame
December 14, 2011- Jay Forrester has been inducted into the 2011 IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame. This honor recognizes Jay’s pioneering work in digital computer development, and particularly his research that helped provide the foundation of modern supply chain management principles. The very first system dynamics model was Jay's model of GE's appliance supply chain, which then became the basis for his book, Industrial Dynamics.

The 10 Hall of Fame manufacturing executives and thought leaders are featured in this month’s issue of IndustryWeek.
In past years, inductees have included Steve Jobs, Lee Iacocca, and Joseph Engelberger, the father of robotics.
There is a profile on Jay Forrester available as well.

Congratulations to Jay!

To revisit a biography of Jay Forrester titled "The power of the bond between cause and effect: Jay Wright Forrester and the field of system dynamics" by David C. Lane, published in the System Dynamics Review Special Issue: Exploring the Next Great Frontier: System Dynamics at 50, Volume 23, Issue 2-3, pages 95–118, Summer-Autumn (Fall) 2007 go to Wiley Online Library.

SD Case Repository Now Available

It is our pleasure to announce that the first version of the SD Case Repository project is ready and on the web! The system dynamics case webpage <http://cases.systemdynamics.org/> provides a collection of consulting projects that were performed after 1990 and used system dynamics as their method.

Directed by the VP Member Services, Etiënne Rouwette, the project aims to help clarify to (potential) users how system dynamics was successfully used and applied to public and private organizations, and to promote applied system dynamics studies. This website is an ongoing project. Currently information about 36 cases is collected.

We hope to expand the collection by including more cases. If you have been involved in a consulting project, please submit a summary of your case, in less than 1,000 words, and with the proper citation to where it was originally published to office@systemdynamics.org. For a case to be accepted it must meet the following three criteria:

- It was a contracted project (with funding or in-kind support) by a private or public organization;
- It was published in a peer-reviewed journal, book, or conference proceedings, 1990 or after; and
- It reports on a fully-developed simulation modeling analysis.

We would like to thank everybody who has been helping the VP Member Services in this project including Bahri Khairul, Fleur van den Elzen, Jack Homer, David Lane, Kim Warren, David Ford, Bob Eberlein, Navid Ghaffarzadegan, and many others.

The October 2011 Newsletter is available.
           Link to the newsletter page

New updates on the website

01-26-2012: SD Career Link 12-08-2011: Conference Page
01-26-2012: Conference Sponsors 12-08-2011: System Dynamics Review List
01-19-2012: Home Index 12-01-2011: Distance Learning
12-28-2011: Courses in SD-Canisius 10-31-2011: Newsletters
12-15-2011: Society Sponsors  

Link to the news archive page.

Contact Information

For information contact Roberta L. Spencer, Executive Director:

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