I dream of OPM becoming my standard modeling tool.
It is my belief that nothing is more useful than a good model, even though all models are are incomplete and capable of misleading.
Description
System Modeling is one level more explicit than System Thinking.
A first pass at the long term curriculum for ReLocalize Creativity and See the Systems. From this work we hope to develop a grade school and highschool offering: Systems as a Second Language.
In addition to See the Systems we should be able to Speak System Language It became apparent to me this morning that schools could/should offer Systems Language as an alternative or addition to "second" languages.
# There are more relationships than causal relationships:
Robin Asby's model of Processing and its relationships from OPCloud 
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Current instance of available behaviors for stateful parts (objects in OPM).
Here we explore how OPM and CLDs relate to one another.
This is another version of the neighborhood database schema represented as a workflow; whereby, people and places produce goods and services that they care about, agree upon, and are able to produce in order to take care of their ideals and needs.
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# Model Based Systems Engineering.
We have placed each of Vester's 18 Complex System Criteria into OPM to see how the logic matches.
Resources, events, agents (REA) is a model of how an accounting system can be re-engineered for the computer age. REA was originally proposed in 1982 by William E. McCarthy as a **generalized accounting model**, and contained the concepts of resources, events and agents (McCarthy 1982).