Machine sequencing model for Gary Ramages.

A Growth and Underinvestment structure is simply an elaborated Limits to Growth structure where the growth inhibitor is part of another Balancing Loop with an external standard and some delay. The real nasty thing about this structure is that the two Balancing Loops form a single Reinforcing Loop which inhibits growth.

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A model for unfolding the story about how stw videos are created.

Hypertension Generic Patient Flow CLD.

Model in support of an article being written about the relationship between investment and austerity. See Version 2

See also:
* Inv vs Aust Sim [IM-2736]
* Inv & Output 1 [IM-2740]
* Inv & Output 2 [IM-2741]

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

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Network Magic can be considered to have four primary stakeholders, the company, Support, Other Organizations, and Customers.

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What do activities of these images have in common?

Image from "All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist" by John Sterman.

All the following have a common characteristic.

An example using custom units to convert a flow from one units to another.

This is the demo project used for the 19.05.21 introduction to Insight Maker Simulation internet session.

Simple reinforcing loop causal loop diagram.

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When we address situations we tend to do so with myopic limited awareness of the real nature of the situation and our actions tend to produce unintended consequences which make the situation worse or create other problems that have to be dealt with by us or others.

This is a definition of the Systems Thinking Interactive Learning Environment (STILE) development process which was used to create Beyond Connecting the Dots (BCtD).

This is the sample model used as a demo for enfolding and unfolding a model. This is what we had to do before the Storytelling feature was developed. Save this one for posterity!

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A Tragedy of the Commons situation exists whenever two or more activities, each, which in order to produce results, rely on a shared limited resource. Results for these activities continue to develop as long as their use of the limited resource doesn't exceed the resource limit. Once this limit is reached the results produced by each activity are limited to the level at which the resource is replenished. See also Archetypes.

Newtonian Cooling is an example of the exponential decay of a stock with the decay rate dependent on the environment.

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

What do activities of these images have in common?

We often set out to solve a problem or accomplish some particular result and things seem to go as planned. As time progresses it seems that progress becomes more and more difficult, if not impossible, and things may actually become worse than when we started. When this happens it is typically a Fixes that Fail structure that's operating. See also Archetypes.

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

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

The limits to growth structure is based on the basic growth structure. And, as should be obvious, nothing grows forever as growth requires resources. Those required resources become a limits to growth. See also Archetypes.