What do activities of these images have in common?

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

How we know what we know.

This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

The structure responsible for rabbit population growth.

All you wanted to do was put a bird feeder in your yard to attract birds and make for a more pleasant morning. And...

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

Rich Pictures, Causal Loop Diagrams and Stock & Flow Simulation Models are the three types of models most commonly used.

Are there environmental/physical limits to humanity? Based on the Are There Limits? blog post by Tom Fiddaman.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

What do activities of these images have in common?

There are about fifteen known archetypes with an interesting set of relationships among them.

LinkedIn, YouTube

Clone of IM-752 map for working simulation model This model is derived from "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement" by Nelson P. Repenning and John D Sterman. An expanded map is at IM-1918.

To develop insights regarding a situation of interest there are a number of things should be considered to ensure a view of the relevant influences.

Influences which work in opposition to sustainable capitalism and influences that might work to further promote it.

If we pay close attention to our actions and the typical outcomes of those actions it would be evident that there are frequently occurring patterns that develop. And there is a relation between the patterns.

Simplest Innovation diffusion model from Sterman's Business Dynamics Ch 9

What do activities of these images have in common?

The Home Heating System can be used to demonstrate how we get caught in dilemmas and become victims of ourselves.

This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

What do activities of these images have in common?

Simplest Innovation diffusion model from Sterman's Business Dynamics Ch 9

What do activities of these images have in common?

This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."