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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- b83f2ce2912343b559f967dd985da515, 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, and 12420ec6bd5f758d2b4dea59aabd75a9
- Description:
- In the contemporary era, the subjects of technology transfer (e.g. a nation or an enterprise) exist as a non- linear open system of disequilibrium. However, while we step into the 21st century, the environment in which the said system operated will take place great changes. There are some new features emerged from technology transfer and it will encounter with a range of new problems. The traditional theories guiding technology transfer will have met lots of challenges. This paper brings forward a new theory that is adaptable to need of the new century. In this paper, we view the opportunity as its core.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- b83f2ce2912343b559f967dd985da515, 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, and 12420ec6bd5f758d2b4dea59aabd75a9
- Description:
- The CC- STADUS project has trained more than eighty pre- college science, mathematics and social science teachers in the basics of computer modeling and system dynamics. In the process of teaching these teachers to build single content area and cross- curricular models, the project has experience some major successes and a variety of problems. More than twenty- five major cross- curricular models and many more single discipline models have been developed by the participants, working both individually and in teams. The training which was provided has evolved continuously in response to feedback from the teachers and formal evaluation. Most major difficulties were eliminated in the second year, allowing consideration of other less obvious problems. The third and final year of the program includes substantial revisions in the focus of the initial training, topics presented by guest speakers, the formation of modeling teams, and the amount of time dedicated to construction of cross- curricular models. Similar changes have been planned for the assessment and support of participants in the year following the training. Consideration of the successes and problems encountered by the CC-STADUS staff can provide valuable insights to those attempting training of pre-college teachers in modeling or system dynamics. A variety of key factors have been identified that can enhance the effectiveness of the training and the subsequent support provided during the academic year.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- b83f2ce2912343b559f967dd985da515, 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, and 12420ec6bd5f758d2b4dea59aabd75a9
- Description:
- This study aims at exploring the polices for the order arrival rate from decision making bodies in order to smooth down the activities of production by lowering the set up time of machines. The impact of scheduling techniques is examined and production and market operations are observed carefully in order to solve the problem of reduced proportion of machine running time. Everything seems to be okey but the proportion of machine running time has the declining trend. Especially, the production and market operations are considered with the positive and negative feedback loops that influence the proportion of machine running time. Ultimately, the decision is made to solve the problem by the construction of formal System Dynamics Model to analyze the interaction of different components of the company. The model provides a detailed, integrated framework among separate facets of the issue addressed representing the past behavior of the production sector. Experimentation with the model attempts to identify the appropriate policies concerning proportion of machine running time.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- b83f2ce2912343b559f967dd985da515, 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, and 12420ec6bd5f758d2b4dea59aabd75a9
- Description:
- Population is an element in the social system. There are a number of elements in the social system which will influence the population growth rate. On the other hand, population growth will, in turn, exert influence on other social elements. We can, therefore, apply the system dynamics (SD) model to dealing with the problems of population control. The paper, based on the investigations carried out in Anhui Province of China, conducts a study of the policies concerning population control in China by use of the system dynamics model.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- b83f2ce2912343b559f967dd985da515, 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, and 12420ec6bd5f758d2b4dea59aabd75a9
- Description:
- The average nurse turnover rate in Taiwan's hospitals was 31.56% in 1988. High turnover rate has a detrimental effect on costs, staff morale, and patient care. Nursing staff turnover is a critical personnel problem for nursing administrators and top hospital management. In order to understand the underlying dynamic structure which causes such a high turnover rate of hospital nurses in Taiwan, we developed a system dynamics model. The results of computer simulation showed that the key solution to the hospital nurse turnover is not a quick-fix, but rather a long- term committed and supportive hospital administration to make improving in the nursing working conditions.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- b83f2ce2912343b559f967dd985da515, 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, and 12420ec6bd5f758d2b4dea59aabd75a9
- Description:
- Literature on competitiveness is numerous. In the field of business administration, strategic management and marketing management focus on how to compete in the markets. This paper begins with a review on the development of key concepts in strategic management. Next, an interpretation from the view of systems thinking on the concept of the experience curve and resource-based view of the company will be provided and made into casual-loops diagrams. Then, with system dynamics simulation methods, there will be quantified studies on the pattern of behavior occur in those casual-loops structures. Finally, based upon these findings and observations, suggestions for strategy will be discussed.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- b83f2ce2912343b559f967dd985da515, 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, and 12420ec6bd5f758d2b4dea59aabd75a9
- Description:
- The problems of video game syndrome has been an obstacle to prove the value of Management Flight Simulators. This paper proposed a theoretical perspective of cognitive strategy to explain this phenomenon: that is, due to the reasons of (1) rational allocation of limited cognitive resources, (2) passive generation alternative methods when failed, (3) faulty mental model to represent the dynamic complexity, the cognitive strategies used by subjects, e.g., feedback control, feedforward control and memory control, are different from the cognitive strategy of mental model simulation expected by researchers. Task salience and transfer-oriented task setting were manipulated to facilitate learning with provoking the appropriate cognitive strategy. The effects of these two learning aids are tested by one laboratory experiment, and tested by multiple index with multiple measurement methods. Experimental results support the proposed theoretical perspective. The mental model simulation strategy seems not the natural cognitive strategy used by subjects. The learning aids had significant positive effects on inducing the cognitive strategy of mental model simulation, on the learning of cognitive skill of systems thinking, on the improvement of task's performance, and on the transfer performance in two transfer tasks.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- b83f2ce2912343b559f967dd985da515, 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, and 12420ec6bd5f758d2b4dea59aabd75a9
- Description:
- The so-called culture gap, between information systems professionals and organisational management, is often cited as, either a reason for system failure, or the cause of lack of perceived success. This paper presents the view that organizations get the systems they deserve, since information professionals in an organisation are no more able to buck the prevailing organisation culture, than any other professional. This leads to the thinking that is not so much a culture gap as culture trap, suggesting that top management need to be considering the organisational culture which impact upon change, if success with organizational information systems is to be improved. This matter has been become one of considerable concern as organizations seek to reengineer their business processes, using the power of information systems. The case study which prompted the thinking is presented. The associated research was undertaken using action research with a soft systems approach, which itself prompted some useful learning. A method of extending the use of rich pictures as a means of developing influence diagrams is suggested. The aim being a rich but soft qualitative SD model.
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- b83f2ce2912343b559f967dd985da515, 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, and 12420ec6bd5f758d2b4dea59aabd75a9
- Description:
- This paper presents the case study of a management information system which is seen in some parts of the organisation it serves, as problematic. This was the typical trigger for a soft systems approach intervention. The research for the case study provided an important methodological insight, which is equally relevant to other systems thinking; the perceived need to find a novel communication method to overcome management resistance. A major cause of conflict, had been the attempted use f data flow diagrams as a communications device with senior management. The blow to managerial pride this techno-speak presentation has caused, left deep and enduring scars which might best be thought of as negative appreciative settings (after Vickers). Such is the antipathy that in some minds, the system had almost become the 'scapegoat' for any problems in this part of the organisation. Yet there was a very clear organisational need for the system to be used satisfactorily. During the intervention a rich picture, in the style of a data flow diagram, was constructed once more as a communications devices, for use with technical specialists. This had limited success, even to those familiar with complex diagramming techniques, unfamiliar symbols and conventions were seen as problematic. This can be equally true where influence diagrams and ithink type diagrams are to be used. This reinforced the view that often the real value of rich pictures lies in the process of their production, rather than the end product. Yet the question of how to communicate and share perceptions with both sides still remained. Ideas from Morgans Indigenization led to perceptions of the situation resembling a mythical kingdom and the idea of a fairy story as an alternative rich picture, or a management toy (after De Geus), perhaps from this, a novel means of communication is possible. The story does not have an ending happy or otherwise, that will be added by the participants in the experiment. If it causes some learning in those involved in the situation, it will have been a success. Children use fairy stories to learn about the world why should managers not use them to help make the transition into successful systems thinking about the world?
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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1995
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- b83f2ce2912343b559f967dd985da515, 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, and 12420ec6bd5f758d2b4dea59aabd75a9
- Description:
- This study aims to examine the regional impacts of the construction of a long submerged floating tunnel across the bay. This study has been motivated by the apparent scant data and research works on the likely regional consequences of such a large-scale project (Alex 1989; Thirumurthy 1987). The main concern is with the department of techniques to predict likely regional impacts. The main premise is that the construction of submerged floating tunnel across the bay will result in changes may initially affect the immediate surroundings of the project site but eventually they are likely to have widespread effect. Ideally, these changes may be advantageous to some organism but disadvantages to others. From this view-point, we purpose an System Dynamic Model for the regional impacts. The actual simulation is examined using the example of the Volcanic Bay of Hokkaido in northern Japan.