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Release of Dynaplan Smia version 1.0

yngve@dynaplan.com (Mr Yngve Mellingen) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:22:13 GMT

Dynaplan is proud to announce the release of Dynaplan Smia version 1.0 on November 8, 2011. Users with a valid service and maintenance agreement can install and upgrade to this version at no extra cost. Watch the video presenting this new release. With this release Dynaplan enhances its input functionality with a full-diagram spreadsheet and a floating spreadsheet window that displays the current selection in editable tables.

Be glad if you are not a programmer

magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com (Mr Magne Myrtveit) — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:22:33 GMT

Last Sunday I spent the whole day trying to figure out why the 64-bit version of Smia showed different results than the 32-bit version. To my big surprise, the error was due to a design decision by Microsoft.

Smia project receives award

magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com (Mr Magne Myrtveit) — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:04:58 GMT

The forum "Managing demographics" was held in Frankfut am Main September 22, 2010, addressing demographic challenges from different angles. Together with six other participants, Evonik received the best practice award for its Plan@HR project.

Why is system dynamics used by so few when it is so good?

magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com (Mr Magne Myrtveit) — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:35:04 GMT

System dynamics solves difficult problems with ease, but it cannot deal with simple ones.

ASCO-Award for HR-dynamics project

magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com (Mr Magne Myrtveit) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:57:40 GMT

June 1, 2010 the Swiss Association of Management Consultants (ASCO) awarded the certificate "Excellent Business Transformation" to the project "Plan@HR - Strategische Personalplanung mit Weitblick". The project improves the balance between the global personnel planning and the business needs of Evonik Industries AG. "The right worker at the right time at the right place" is the objective for this strategic personnel planning project. The project relies on Dynaplan Smia for scenario simulation in combination with systemic methodology for gaining an holistic perspective on personnel dynamics. After an initial project phase from January 2009 until February 2010 the implementation of the strategies for maintaining the correct employee portfolio turned HR from an operational service center into a strategic partner for the corporation.

Use case - Workforce Planning project at Deutsche Bank

magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com (Mr Magne Myrtveit) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:39:08 GMT

Deutsche Bank has together with Malik Management used Dynaplan Smia as the simulation technology for creating what they label an "Intelligence Amplifier for Business Partners". Read the full article by clicking on the image at the right. Text is in German.

How some real-world spreadsheet errors could be avoided using Smia

magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com (Mr Magne Myrtveit) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:21:52 GMT

For some years now I have been monitoring the postings of the EUSPRIG. It strikes me that many of the risks of using spreadsheets would be greatly reduced or even completely removed if spreadsheets would use built-in quality measures similar to those found in Smia. Obviously, many spreadsheet models fail due to human mistakes. The pity is that spreadsheets allow users to make mistakes that modelling software could have - and should have - prevented automatically.

Selected papers on simulation and modelling

magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com (Mr Magne Myrtveit) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:13:44 GMT

Here is a small collection of papers dealing with technical and conceptual aspects of simulaton and modelling. The papers are written prior to the development Dynaplan Smia. Smia supports many of the concepts introduced and described in these papers, and adds many more.

Strategic personnel planning with scenario simulation

magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com (Mr Magne Myrtveit) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:18:24 GMT

The current global financial situation has impacts on most companies. It is no longer possible to plan for the future by making small adjustments to the figures from last year. With Dynaplan Smia customers can develop and test out strategies for dealing with changes in the business and its environment. Together with Malik Management Zentrum, St. Gallen, Dynaplan As offers the technology, methods, and services businesses need for assessing short-term and long-term consequences of different strategies for dealing with the current crisis.

Using Smia with a Mac running Vista

magne.myrtveit@dynaplan.com (Mr Magne Myrtveit) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:23:19 GMT

Some language versions of the MacBook Pro keyboard do not provide easy access to some of the keys used by Smia (and other modelling/programming tools as well). If you experience this problem, here is how you can fix it.