Quanjel, Marcel M. H. with Ivo Wenzler, "Innovations in Conceptual Modeling", 1994
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In this paper we describe the process of building a conceptual model of a guided missile base of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, a complex organization in the middle of transformation. Based on this conceptual model, we developed a policy exercise that is used by the Air Force to explore their future organization, focusing especially on the communication structure. We will describe the steps made in developing the model and explain the choices that lead to some methodological innovations in communicating complexity through a conceptual model. We will also describe this model, which consist of 28 actors and actor groups, and between them more than 350 relationships of nine different types, including five specified types of communication. Furthermore we will look shortly into the possibilities of transforming our qualitative model of actors and relations between actors into a system dynamic model, thus broadening the scope of system dynamics by giving an input from the system analytical approach we use in developing policy exercises.
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