Re: Text vs. Pictures? LO2466

Orbis (74363.3637@compuserve.com)
19 Aug 95 15:02:39 EDT

Replying to LO2405 --

Michael Bloomenfeld recently commented/asked
> I've not heard of a facilitator with the strong emphasis on graphic
>thinking that you are developing. and
>Does computer graphics animation give us new or different tools as we pass
>through the analog to digital threshold?

In response, I would point folks to the work of Graphic Guides. David
Sibbert, its President, is one of the co-authors of "Leading Business
Teams" - a groupware book in the Addison-Wesley OD series. It includes a
case study of change that used large scale graphic representations as part
of the process.

On the computer graphics animation front, I have not kept up to date with
sustems dynamics modelling software, but in the past I used a package
(Stella) to represent a company's financial system. It did a nice job of
modelling the flow aspects and illustrating the counter-intuitive dynamics
of inventory management.

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Host's Note: Stella is still available, but the business version is
called iThink and is available on Mac and Windows from High Performance
Systems, Hanover NH, hps@valley.net

-- Rick Karash, rkarash@world.std.com, host for learning-org
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