System Dynamics 101

  What are some of ethical concerns of building group participative models?  What if a “member” of the group is a generative AI?

What horizons, system boundaries, do we include to validly, robustly, examine our assumptions, and interpret our results?

Whence does  vulnerability   arise?  Find a definition of workplace or organizational vulnerability.  Using this definition describe your observations and/or experiences of vulnerability in the workplace, especially management response.

  An innovative product or service turns the corner and is no longer innovative. What have you observed managers might do in response? What are the key drivers of innovation in your experience?

In this week's share we consider extreme projects. These might be the ongoing series of all-nighters with team furiously working to a very hard deadline. They might be that one project which we all would like to forget, as it collapsed all around us, spectacularly failed  by all accounts. The one we could never bring back from the brink. There there might be that one project where everything went right! How did that happen? Recalling all of the Non-Disclosure Agreements, and good sense too, you have signed, be sure to anonymize any references to projects, people, even events. Name the myths, mind-sets, paradigms, worldviews you encountered during your best, and worst, days on a project. Consider how would you represent the paradigm. Why might you want to keep it the way it is, or find a way to topple it? In your example of your worst-case project experience, who were the most vulnerable participants in the project? Is there a leverage point in the project you might use to produce