REPLY Society Strategy Development (SD7094)

[SDMAIL Swanson, John]

Posted by  "Swanson, John" <John.Swanson at sdgworld.net>

Thanks to Kim and others for trying to pull this discussion back on
track.

>From my point of view, some aspirations for a successful future would
be:

- when commissions are set up to investigate issues of major importance,
experts on the subject area with a system dynamics background are
routinely invited to join, precisely because of the perspective SD gives
them. 
- simlarly, there would be no surprise among observers that such people
are involved (as there might be no surprise now if economists with
specialised knowledge of the subject area are asked to contribute).  
- even more, serious commentators would be surprised if such people were
not asked to contribute.

Or, to put it more succinctly, commentators and observers, both
professional and the informed lay-person, would know, without having to
think about it, that SD had a serious contribution to make and they'd
expect to see that expertise being used.

John Swanson
Associate
Steer Davies Gleave
28-32 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PD
Posted by  "Swanson, John" <John.Swanson at sdgworld.net>
posting date  Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:41:12 +0100