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

SystemsWiki's Musings

This model is derived from the paper "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement" by Nelson P. Repenning and John D Sterman. See Insight 752 for a causal loop version of this model.

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This is a template which one might use as a basis for creating Insight Maker Relationship models. Links have default style of the blue ones in the diagram. The easiest way to get the red dashed links is to CTRL+d to duplicate them and then connect where appropriate.

The goal seeking structure endeavors to bring a balance between a current state and a desired state. This is one of the two foundation archetypes. The other being the growth structure. See also Archetypes.

Just some thoughts for Runy.

Based on a dialogue on the System Dynamics mailing list regarding the current level of acceptance of System Dynamics after it has been promoted for over 70 years I dredged up the following set of influences as a thought exercise. This is an example of a Drifting Goals Archetype.

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The boundary defines the extent of the system.

Consider the following "Sustaining the Forest" model intended to provide another example of how unexpected the behavior of a web of extended interactions can be.

Little Red Riding Hood walking through the woods to Grandma's house. How long will it take?

Model is created by Gene Bellinger. Original model can be accessed from https://insightmaker.com/insight/2249/Adjusting-the-Shower-SFD.

Often times there are a number of parameters in a model you want to set to specific values and run the model to demonstrate a particular behavior. When there are several variables involved remembering the setup is often difficult and takes time. And can you demonstrate the behavior when you're not there? Developing scenarios with Button scripts is a quick way to overcome these difficulties.

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

Examples of Systems.

Population Growth in an Agrarian Society with the addition of agriculture.

A map of the elements associated with Systems Thinking as defined by different sources.

A spatially aware, agent based model of disease spread. There are three classes of people: susceptible (healthy), infected (sick and infectious), and recovered (healthy and temporarily immune).

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Demo of changing vector length on the fly.

Population Growth in an Agrarian Society with the addition of agriculture.

Once the strategy has been developed it's up to the Stakeholders who own the segments of the revised model to implement it so a new pattern of behavior is created thus effecting the desired situation.

Cloud example. If you really want clouds a sources in your model it's pretty easy to create one.

Model is created by Gene Bellinger. Original model can be accessed from https://insightmaker.com/insight/2249/Adjusting-the-Shower-SFD.

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

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A map of the elements associated with Systems Thinking as defined by different sources.

Examples of reinforcing and balancing loops enhanced with images to maybe them more visually engaging.