What do activities of these images have in common?

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...

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

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

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

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

What do activities of these images have in common?

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

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

We create the future as a result of the manner in which we choose to engage with situations which concern us. There is a also a video for this insight.

This is a more Traditional Career Model of how education works, with an increased lifetime earnings from going to college. The following are links to the other two models in the series.

• Loan Cost Model
• Savings Model

To develop insights regarding a situation of interest there are a number of things should be considered to ensure a view of the relevant influences.

All the following have a common characteristic.

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 purpose of this model is to have the user change the value of stocks, flows and converters to experience a variety of different graphical results. Understanding this generic model is important pre-requisite to learning about intravenous drugs in the body, radioactivity, self-esteem, water flowing from a drain and many other basic natural systems.

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

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

All the following have a common characteristic.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

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.

How we know what we know.

What do activities of these images have in common?

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