Rich picture version of Causal loop diagram based on Jack  Homer's paper Worker burnout: a dynamic model with implications  for prevention and control System Dynamics Review 1985 1(1)42-62 See IM-333 for the Simulation model and IM-2178 for a related Causal Loop Diagram of Project Turnover

 

How the Lean Startup method, developed by Eric Reis, works as a business system.

The need to spend time doing chargeable work, in balance and/or conflict with the need to spend time doing marketing to ensure a continuing workload into the future.

Rich picture version of Causal loop diagram based on Jack  Homer's paper Worker burnout: a dynamic model with implications  for prevention and control System Dynamics Review 1985 1(1)42-62 See IM-333 for the Simulation model and IM-2178 for a related Causal Loop Diagram of Project Turnover

 

​The Problem: 

Whether you are a start-up business or a business that has been standing for quite a while, your reputation as a business is critical for the functioning of it. Not just your reputation but the image of your business or brand is also very important; the people or the customers must be able to visualize your business when they think of it and it is your duty as the owner to build this image, a positive and radiant image that will stand out from the rest and remain in their minds long after their encounter with it. So the big question is, how can one go about doing this? At first it may sound daunting and seem like such a big feat, I mean think about it, the responsibility of building a powerful image in the minds of many different types of people sounds scary. But really, if you look at it more prospectively you will learn that this is not quite true and is also easier than it sounds. The key is to pay attention to little things rather than only the bigger picture.

By following some of these the problem can be resolved. And there will be growth in the business development.

This is a model which attempts to replicate a simple reinforcing loop described by Dennis Sherwood on page 75-87 of his book 'Seeing the forest for the trees - a manager's guide to applying systems thinking.

This is not a realistic model but I just wanted to reproduce it as practice of implementing causal loop models.

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Model of growth from diffusion from John Morecroft's Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics Book Ch6 p174-191. A discussion of a bigger model of People's Express is in http://bit.ly/HdaGy4 for a related You Tube video by John Morecroft on Reflections on System Dynamics and Strategy

This simulation mimics the flow of projects through an organization. The organization consists of teams that idependently or collaboratively work on projects. Many of the projects have a mulit-team dependency.

​A model of viral growth. Based upon:

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121011190820-18876785-how-to-model-viral-growth-simple-loss

Simple Bass diffusion modified from Sterman Business Dynamics Ch9. Compare with the SI infectious disease model Insight 584, to which we added churn and duplicated it to model a 2 sided marketplace..

In this 2-sided market model -- take etsy for example --  the adoption rate of end users is also a factor of how many vendors the company has on-boarded.  You can control the impact on end user adoption via the Choice Impact Factor.

Conversely,  the rate at which vendors will be on-boarded is a factor of the perceived opportunity they have to sell their wares.  You can control the rate at which suppliers are on-boarded via the Opportunity Impact Factor.

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​A model of viral growth. Based upon:

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121011190820-18876785-how-to-model-viral-growth-simple-loss