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- Type:
- Document
- Fecha de Creacion:
- 2005 July 17-2005 July 21
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 3c582e6f5cf305ef0030c7471b499022, and cc5bb0ac12a5b68b26b1583548898dae
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- A policy for rapid deployment of fiber-to-the-home may be in direct conflict with the health of the transceiver component supplier industry. The interests of consumers, regulators, and even service providers are in conflict with the industry that provides a critical component necessary for the service. The industry needs to recognize this conflict and explore strategies to keep itself viable in light of these conflicts. A system dynamics model is used to explore the effects of government policy on the deployment of fiber-to-the-home as a broadband technology. Specifically this article investigates the effects of a policy for rapid broadband deployment on the component supplier that is farthest from the consumer in the value chain.
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- Type:
- Document
- Fecha de Creacion:
- 2005 July 17-2005 July 21
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 3c582e6f5cf305ef0030c7471b499022, and cc5bb0ac12a5b68b26b1583548898dae
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- This paper proposes a model that gives deeper insights into the dynamics of interorganizational learning at the example of an alliance of two partnering firms. Current alliance research often tends to neglect a feedback-perspective which might be the reason why certain behavioral effects cannot be explained. However, we identify some major feedback-loops that influence interorganizational learning dynamics based on literature-based alliance research. Here, we focus on the concept of common and private benefits. According to literature findings the dilemma between the two kinds of benefits determines how many resources the parent companies invest in the alliance. We show how gatekeepers might lead a learning alliance to common success. We also show how short-term views of potential private benefits might not only lead to failed common goal attainment but also ruin a firms collaborative reputation in the industry.
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- Type:
- Document
- Fecha de Creacion:
- 2005 July 17-2005 July 21
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 3c582e6f5cf305ef0030c7471b499022, and cc5bb0ac12a5b68b26b1583548898dae
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- The paper explores the application of loop eigenvalue elasticity analysis (LEEA) to three models in order to reveal the potential of the method for generating insights about model behavior and to uncover issues in developing the method further. The results indicate that the utility of the method depends upon the character of the model and dynamics involved. In models where the transient behavior is of interest, the method yields insights on par with the pathway participation method, though better tools to link the method to time paths of particular variables is needed. In models involving near-equilibrium oscillation, LEEA is clearly the most powerful, though more efficient computer programs are needed to handle large-scale models. In highly non-linear models exhibiting deterministic chaos, LEEA, being based upon linear concepts, does not appear to yield any insight because the eigenvalues may change substantially even when the mode of behavior appears constant. The paper also describes the set of tools and processes that we have developed and the design for a web-based toolbox to make the methods readily available to a wider audience in the hope that others will join the efforts to develop analytical methods for interpreting model behavior.
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- Type:
- Document
- Fecha de Creacion:
- 2005 July 17-2005 July 21
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 3c582e6f5cf305ef0030c7471b499022, and cc5bb0ac12a5b68b26b1583548898dae
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- Many companies, especially in high tech industries, are facing shrinking product lifecycles and increasingly complex production and product technologies. Selling many products in semiconductors, disk-drives or products in telecommunications has shrunk has shrunk to a time span less than a year. These market dynamics pressure production facilities to begin full scale production at a point when the underlying process technology is still ill understood. Consequently companies suffer from substantial yield losses, which can dramatically affect the economics of the product, production facility, and business. The production ramp-up will be defined as the time span equal to the difference between time to market and time to volume. A major goal of innovators is to reduce the time to market, but they cannot evaluate the effects on the time to volume. This paper will give insights in these interdependencies and compare two policies for the management of changes during production ramp-up.
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- Type:
- Document
- Fecha de Creacion:
- 2005 July 17-2005 July 21
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 3c582e6f5cf305ef0030c7471b499022, and cc5bb0ac12a5b68b26b1583548898dae
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- For many organisation going on line in an eBusiness venture is often fraught with difficulties in discerning the strategy and value in such a venture and the possible outcomes. Organisations are revisiting their services and/or products and developing eBusiness systems that are capable of exploiting the organisations business supply chains. Central to any development of this nature is the managers understanding of the implications of an Internet eBusiness venture to the organisation and industry they wish to compete in. This paper outlines an insight into a framework for mapping business process models onto service and product based business models.
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- Type:
- Document
- Fecha de Creacion:
- 2005 July 17-2005 July 21
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 3c582e6f5cf305ef0030c7471b499022, and cc5bb0ac12a5b68b26b1583548898dae
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- Regularly generating innovative products is a key success factor in established industries. Major companies frequently outpace each other with innovations and product offensives. But what are the effects of such initiatives? And how can companies organize their innovation pipelines in order to successfully manage such ventures? The process in which innovations are developed and integrated into marketable products is highly complex and can be organized in various ways. An important distinction introduced by this paper is to separate between product development processes and processes for innovation generation. In established industries the first ones regularly initiate product development projects and strive to meet certain launch periods. The latter are problem-solution oriented and driven by the search for new, innovative concepts. They are characterized by risk and a high degree of uncertainty regarding success und completion time.This paper introduces a work-in-progress-model of such innovation pipelines oriented at the typical structures in the automotive industry.
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- Type:
- Document
- Fecha de Creacion:
- 2005 July 17-2005 July 21
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 3c582e6f5cf305ef0030c7471b499022, and cc5bb0ac12a5b68b26b1583548898dae
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- Residual values are considered of major importance for an automotive product/brand in various aspects. They are believed to have a major influence on attributes such as: new car sales, pricing options, buyback risk, and image perception. The presented paper refers to a work in progress model developed for the analysis of residual values in the automotive industry. It is designed to analyze how an automotive company can support and take advantage of residual values. Among others, the following questions are addressed: -What are leverages/policies that effect residual values? -Which leverages/policies are particularly effective/sensitive? -What effects/consequences regarding the new car business are to expect by changes in residual values? Although the model is designed and developed for practical use in the automotive industry and can not be revealed in detail, it provides important aspects that are worthy of discussion with experts in the field of System Dynamics. It represents a new approach to the subject of residual values and connects to previous work such as Sterman (2002). The developed model realistically reproduces the course of residual values in relation to specified market cycles and given exogenous factors. It has proven valuable for questions regarding effective leverages and policies to residual values.
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- Type:
- Document
- Fecha de Creacion:
- 2005 July 17-2005 July 21
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 3c582e6f5cf305ef0030c7471b499022, and cc5bb0ac12a5b68b26b1583548898dae
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- A system dynamics model of individual performance is developed and simulated. Performance, a behavioral factor, depends upon and influences emotional and cognitive factors: stress, mood, and motivation. Activation, found in both stress and motivation literatures, is treated separately. Each causal relationship is assumed to be simple and unambiguous. Analysis of the model output under a range of work conditions shows that ambiguous or complex relationships would be supported by traditional research. Complex relationships between stress, motivation, and individual performance emerge from model structure and interactions, rather than from assumed causality. This work demonstrates the benefit of simulation in theorizing when multiple factors operate in tandem.
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- Type:
- Document
- Fecha de Creacion:
- 2005 July 17-2005 July 21
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 3c582e6f5cf305ef0030c7471b499022, and cc5bb0ac12a5b68b26b1583548898dae
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- We model the dynamics associated with evolution of the core and the periphery of a social-network. The model is based on an existing behavioral theory of the inter-firm (Baum and Ingram 2002). The formalization allows us to refine this existing theory through the introduction of a target setting process. Allied analysis documents the efficacy of exploration and exploitation policies within the core and across the periphery of a social network. Our results show that the competitive advantage accrued through exploration and exploitation is crucially affected by the behavioral biases, imitation and the target setting associated with the evolution of key constructs.
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- Type:
- Document
- Fecha de Creacion:
- 2005 July 17-2005 July 21
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, 3c582e6f5cf305ef0030c7471b499022, and cc5bb0ac12a5b68b26b1583548898dae
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- This paper, through two separate teaching fragments in the delivery of chemistry education, is to demonstrate the use of system dynamics and the subsequent research process by using software STELLA, which clearly reflects the system thinking. As to the decomposing reaction of H2O2, students encountered some unexpected reaction phenomenon. With the help of the STELLA, they conducted in-depth research on the causes that lead to such phenomenon mentioned above. The final modeling process clarifies the reaction for the students. Whats more important, it also helps them form the initial concept of system thinking. When studying molar volume of gas, the teacher took as the starting point the four famous Chinese ancient inventions and then moved further to the study of rocket propeller. From the viewpoint of a student at secondary school, they gradually uncover the underpinning theories of rocket propeller. This process brought to them a great sense of achievement and joy. Such a process is beyond any imagination in our traditional teaching conduct. It is not only a harmonious combination of system thinking and the studying of chemistry theories, but in addition, it brings the fundamental reforms in the chemistry education at secondary schools.