REPLY Separate Professional Conference (SD6302)

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Posted by  "Radzicki, Michael J" <mjradz at WPI.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

Currently, the best entities for organizing conferences (and other
activities) dedicated to system dynamics and its practical application to
business and consulting (within the System Dynamics Society anyway) are the
"Chapter" and the "Special Interest Group" (SIG). The System Dynamics Society
already has a "Business" SIG, and nothing prevents it (or perhaps a newly
created chapter) from organizing conferences, publishing papers, creating web
sites, organizing threads at the annual SD conference, etc., etc., etc.

My own experience with the Economics Chapter of the System Dynamics Society
is that organizing Chapter sessions and activities at economics conferences
(and NOT at the annual System Dynamics conference) has been a VERY successful
strategy. We talk to the right kind of economists and are able to quickly get
deeply into issues of interest to everyone: economic dynamics. Moreover, some
of these economists have become so interested in SD that they have started to
apply it in their research.

I firmly believe that the chapters and SIGs are the future of the System
Dynamics Society and that they should be used to bring system dynamics to
those who might otherwise never be exposed to its potential benefits.

For more information on chapters and SIGs, point your browser to:

http://www.systemdynamics.org/society_activities.htm#SocietyChapters

Cheers.

Mike Radzicki
Past President
System Dynamics Society
Posted by  "Radzicki, Michael J" <mjradz at WPI.EDU>
posting date  Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:27:40 -0500