Results of the Asynchronous Meeting on Expenditure Priorities

Key Investments in the Field of System Dynamics

 

MOST STRONGLY ENDORSED IDEAS

 

make the Executive Director a full-time position

 

develop an on-line preprint archive (like the Los Alamos physics archive)

 

website with answers to frequently-asked questions plus bibliographic links

 

online discussion to develop answers to difficult frequently-asked questions

 

produce/compile/maintain Web resources to answer "What is system dynamics?"

 

create a world-class website to introduce the world to the Society

 

create a web repository of reviewed public domain models

 

develop and maintain on-line library of published models

 

put interfaces on general interest models with Web access to assist teaching

 

set up booths at INFORMS and other academic conferences

 

strengthen links with other methods and disciplines

 

more outreach to mainstream societies in related fields, e.g., AOM, INFORMS

 

promote linkages to the Systems Thinking community

OTHER WIDELY ENDORSED IDEAS

 

create and maintain a web-based directory of members

 

cash prizes for best work by university students (undergrad, grad, Ph.D.)

 

sponsor a student paper competition

 

prize for best student paper presented at the annual conference

 

yearly award for best masters and/or doctoral thesis

 

college scholarships for high school students interested in the SD field

 

scholarships for Ph.D. students

 

travel and living expense supplements for Bergen exchange students

 

greatly reduce student rates for our conferences

 

greatly reduce student subscription rate for the SD Review

 

support conference travel for students and junior faculty with low incomes

 

develop "tried and true" curriculum materials for primary/secondary/college

 

invest in advancing the teaching of SD in high schools

 

compile teaching material

 

yearly prize for best SD Review main article

 

yearly prize for best SD article published outside the SD Review

 

prize for best paper outside the SD Review on a SD application

 

prize for best paper in SD Review of interest to readers outside the field

 

prize for best SD application that solves real-world managerial problem

 

prize for best paper connecting SD to related fields

 

target specific topics for work/papers with annual awards plus publication

 

increase the financial award given with the Forrester prize

 

create yearly awards for the best SD consulting projects

IDEAS WITH MODEST SUPPORT

 

sponsor "Seminars for Beginners" at the annual conference

 

subsidize conferences/meetings/workshops aimed at expanding the SD field

 

publish methodology/technology reviews with critiques

 

publish a collection of the best work every five years

 

subsidize "ghost writers" for publication of best managerial applications

 

fund George Richardson to write an intellectual biography of Jay Forrester

 

sponsor a scholarly book series

 

sponsor yearly publication of at least one book on specific SD topics

 

develop new products/educational games (like beer game) for Society to sell

 

license run-time software for search/display/print sent out with bibliography