This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

All you wanted to do was put a bird feeder in your yard to attract birds and make for a more pleasant morning. And...

If we are to develop a strategy for dealing with a situation we must first understand what has caused the situation to be the way it is. If we don't know why it is the way it is then any action we take is little more than meddling and unlikely to produce the desired result.

Depicts a behavior over time graph.

If we pay close attention to our actions and the typical outcomes of those actions it would be evident that there are frequently occurring patterns that develop. And there is a relation between the patterns.

Diagram from CDC conference.

When one undertakes to create a model there are a number of guidelines that are considered essential for consideration if there is to be a success with the model.

All you wanted to do was put a bird feeder in your yard to attract birds and make for a more pleasant morning. And...

Part 1 demonstrates Picture primitives and Links to create representations of interactions. These are made visually attractive because the Picture primitives are overlayed with images.

The Home Heating System can be used to demonstrate how we get caught in dilemmas and become victims of ourselves.

A description of how Systems Thinking World came to be and where it's seems to be heading at present. There is a video for this at About Systems Thinking World

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

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

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

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.

The generic stock & flow form for a balancing loop.

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.

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

CLD of Eric Wolstenholme Syst. Dyn. Rev. 23, 371–389, (2007) See IM-1008 for a stock flow version.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

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

A quick example for creating a simulation in Insight Maker.