When the relevant interactions are identified it's appropriate to identify which elements are the responsibility of which stakeholders, which elements are part of the addressable interactions and which elements are part of the environment.

Joe P. is currently managing a project that's behind schedule and he's experiencing substantial pressure to get the project back on track.

Insight Maker is web based multi-user modeling and simulation environment which enables distributed virtual collaboration.

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Drifting Goals archetype for pressure to lower standards impacting efforts to reduce pollution and improve current air quality.

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This Loan Cost Model is the second in the series. It takes into account the potential cost of student loans in the case that the student does not manage to graduate college or does not succeed in their career.

• Traditional Career Model
• Savings Model

WIP Ideas from Science Special Issue May 2014

Comparison of scalar and vector version of the rabbit population model.

This Savings Model is the third in the series. It illustrates the difference in savings over time for a doctor or for a skilled worker who went to a trade school.

• Traditional Career Model
• Loan Cost Model

Reinforcing Loop/SFD Simulation allow one to experience the explicit implications of the interactions.

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Because our problem solving approaches in today's reality don't produce very good solutions we end up continually dealing with unintended consequences which make the original problem worse or create new problems to be dealt with.

Development of a model to understand why we don't all get rich from investment accounts.

Demo of population growth with distinct agents.

This is a sample model to demonstrate the Insight Maker Optimization function.

The approach is to investigate the US Economy from a macro perspective, then the Public Sector in more detail and then expand out to the World Economy.

You've probably heard the comment "It's the economy stupid!" Well I've finally concluded that when it comes to the economy "It's stupidity stupid!" might be a more appropriate phrase.

Use a bathtub model to investigate the manner in which inflows and outflows govern the quantity of a stock. Extend the structure to create and investigate the relationships of a goal seeking balancing loop.

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This model is an element of the effective problem solving program.

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The situation Big Box Distribution considers to be a problem is an average accounts receivable period which is considered unacceptable as it is costing them money.

Purpose: Employ the Mono Lake model adapted from "Modeling the Environment" by Andrew Ford as a basis for developing a set of guidelines to support asynchronous multi-user model development.

Mono Lake is an ancient inland sea on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. From a policy point of view Mono Lake is the story of how a handful of people began a campaign to save a dying lake

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

This is an example of how to use Folders to enfold insights so others can unfold them later and develop an understanding of the relationships.

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Drifting Goals Stock & Flow Simulation model.

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How Systems Thinking World came to be where it is and where it's seems to be heading at present.

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Faced with a performance gap the two most obvious responses are to work harder or work smarter. There are trade offs associated with each, some obvious, some not so obvious.

Derived from Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement by Repenning and Sterman.

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