John writes:
>I confess that I don't understand what you're saying, Winfried. I seem to
>have lost the context. I'm going to guess at one meaning and respond to
>it, but if I'm missing your point please let me know.
Hallo John,
Thank you for your answer, which was very clear. I think I understand the
problems of modelling a system as well a the problems arising from the
dynamics of the system modelled, like instability and the various kinds of
attractors.
I was trying to make another point. I hope I am able to make it a little
bit clearer now:
My starting question was: Why should managers, decision makers, model
systems? The answer seems so obvious: To make better decisions. But why
then is it so difficult to convince managers to participate in such a
process? This is really puzzling for a system thinker as I am. And may be
we can find reasons for this in our discussion here.
Additionally, I believe that no modelled system can come close to human
intuition. I need to be more precise: I am not speaking of the objective
knowledge of the development of some parameters over time, but I am
speaking of the impact or back action, that such a model has on the
system.
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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