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

If you mouse over an item and an "i" is displayed there is a note attached. These are on some nodes and some links.

This diagram presents the valid relationships between stocks, flows, and parameters. Ghosts of Stocks, Flows, and Converters can be created as needed.

It is now appropriate to investigate the possible leverage points for the current situation in an attempt to understand the most appropriate components for the strategy.

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

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Folders allow one to hide the detail complexity in certain places.

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Model supporting research of investment vs. austerity implications. Please refer to Modern Money & Public Purpose Video.

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The delays associated with adjusting the shower is a very common example of the Balancing Loop with Delay Systems Archetype. 

Our actions are based on our beliefs and the results of those actions are the basis for our beliefs. The difficulty we create for ourselves is that we make assumptions as to how to interpret the results we select based on our beliefs. As a result we are often operating on a flawed perspective of reality.

A System is a matter of perspective.

Two goal seeking structures attempting to resolve and based on the delay one may tend to settle for less. See also Archetypes.

The Sensitivity Analysis option allows you to develop a sense of the extent to which some part of the model is affected by changes in some other part of the model. I think you'll find the approach to implementing Sensitivity Analysis rather straightforward and powerful at the same time.

The meaningful relationship between a business and its customers should be a reinforcing structure.

Success to the successful archetype represents two reinforcing structures which may be in a delicate balance though as soon as one gains a small advantage the resource allocation favors the more successful and the result is then rapidly skewed in the direction of the more successful. See also Archetypes.

When endeavoring to develop an understanding of the nature of something it is generally useful to create a model of some type to aid in surfacing that understanding.

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

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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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From Jay Forrester 1971 book World Dynamics, the earlier, simpler version of the World 3 Limits to Growth Model. Adapted by Geoff McDonnell from Mark Heffernan's ithink version at Systemswiki.org.

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It's relatively well understood that you can't be all things to all people. Somewhere one has to make choices. An Attractiveness Principle Systems Archetype is essentially a Limits to Growth Systems Archetype with multiple limits, all of which can not be addressed equally. See also Archetypes.

Derived from a model at the Meadows institute. http://bit.ly/zI4axo.

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Enabling a Better Tomorrow is a systemic approach for developing a systemic strategy which may be employed to intervene in a current situation to effect the desired results while minimizing the likelihood of creating new problems in the process.

Depicts a behavior over time graph.

Escape behavior often results in more stress than one escapes from.

Rich Pictures are simply pictorial representations of the relations between a number of relevant elements. The strength of rich pictures is that they're free form without any formal rules, which also tends to be the shortcoming of rich pictures.

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