Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

Clone of IM-752 map for working simulation model This model is derived from "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement" by Nelson P. Repenning and John D Sterman. An expanded map is at IM-1918.

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

Based on 1990 SDR Article. Control systems act to make their own input match internal standards or reference signals. Competent control systems create illusions of stimulus response causality. Stimulus-response theory can approximate the relationship between disturbance and action, but it can't predict the consequences of behavior. These consequences are maintained despite disturbances. See also Double loop learning and Nurse Thinking Insights

The structure responsible for rabbit population growth.

Rich Pictures, Causal Loop Diagrams and Stock & Flow Simulation Models are the three types of models most commonly used.

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

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.

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

There are about a dozen known systems archetypes with an interesting set of relationships among them.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

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 9781 for a simulation of this model.

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.

Simplest Innovation diffusion model from Sterman's Business Dynamics Ch 9

There's actually more to filling a swimming pool with water than you might realize.

Influences which work in opposition to sustainable capitalism and influences that might work to further promote it.

What do activities of these images have in common?

Influences which work in opposition to sustainable capitalism and influences that might work to further promote it.

New Learning tend to reduce Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning though our Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning inhibits new learning. The question is then how do we break this cycle. Adopted from "An Introduction to Systems Thinking with STELLA" by Barry Richmond.

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

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

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

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.