WIP to explain iterative modelling of linkages over space and time see also causal pathways IM
Linkages among objects
Summary of Ray Pawson's Book The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto See also lse review 2013
The Science of Evaluation
A model of the ladder of inference which shows how we short circuit reality based on the assumptions and beliefs we develop IM-351. Combined with the cyclical scientific process described by Gary An.
Ladder of Inference and Cyclical Scientific Process
From SDR Jan 2012 article and 1988 killian award lectures Youtube
Mental Models of Dynamic Systems
Based on a book chapter by Rosemarie Sadsad based on her PhD Thesis. See also other Insights tagged Multiscale and Realist ( IM-3546 and IM-3834 are embedded here)
Multiscale modeling process
WIP based on Mascia2017 Analyzing conservation strategies article and other mostly private insights. A more detailed form of structure agency IM-1163
Intervention Types Mechanisms and Effects
Aim: To gain insight into what map and model representations in applied systems methods in IM-1267 can assist identifying and explaining the improvement strategies (leverage points) described by Donella Meadows Places to Intervene Article. The context is social learning for collective action to improve real world events. Information Sources are adapted from IM-920
Systems Methods for Interventions
From Stephen Toulmin's Book The Uses of Argument Cambridge University Press 2003. See wikipedia Also Francis Miller Claim Hexagon 2025 web article
Toulmin and Miller Argument Models
Clone of In-24664. One question that I seem to be getting more and more often is "Should I do this in Insight Maker or Kumu?" At one time that was an easy answer, and still is for certain things, for others it's becoming more and more difficult. There is a also a video for this insight which is a component of the Certified Systems Thinker Course.
Clone of Insight Maker or Kumu
WIP ideas for group model building representation See later Australian Version Hybrid Insight
Saskatoon Context for Group Model Building
From MIT ESD work (de Weck Ilities ) esp on Survivability (Medecki) http://bit.ly/HVsceb and Unarticulated Value (Ross) 2006 PhD pdf
Clone of System Change Value and Ilities
Based on G.P. Cimellaro et al. Framework for analytical quantification of disaster resilience Engineering Structures 32 (2010) 3639–3649 paper
Facilities Disaster Resilience
Some insights from Albert O. Hirschman's Book. THe use of Jeopardy, Perversity and Futility as Stories to justify either progress or the status quo. See also Toulmin IM-1175 and The Passions and the Interests IM-12444
The Rhetoric of Reaction
WIP based on Nate Osgood's Motivation for Dynamic Simulation Models in System Science Lecture see Youtube video at 20:34
Clone of Explaining and Intervening in Complex Systems
Diagrams from Greene 2017 nejm article Putting the patient back together Social Medicine, Network Medicine, and the Limits of Reductionism
Network medicine
Clone of IM-806 modified to integrate AnyLogic Real world, Model World with Van de Ven Engaged Scholarship and Land Use Modelling approaches. See also Complex Decision Technologies IM
Real World and Model World
Adding change over time to relative risk, odds ratio and population attributable fraction epidemiology concepts see
wikipedia and
examples .
Could also add deaths and competing risks
Relative Risk dynamics
From Werner Ulrich's JORS Articles Operational research and critical systems thinking – an integrated perspective. Part 1: OR as applied systems thinking. Journal of the Operational Research Society advance online publication (14 December 2011). and Part 2 :OR as argumentative practice.
See also insight on Boundary Critique
Critical Systems Thinking
Overview of Evaluation Approaches from Pawson and Tilley's Book comparing Realist, Constructivist, Experimental and Pragmatic Evaluation Approaches. Combined with Van de Ven's Alternative Philosophies of Science in his Engaged Scholarship book. See also Burrell and Morgan's research paradigms video
Realistic and Other Evaluation Methods
From MIT ESD work (de Weck Ilities ) esp on Survivability (Medecki) http://bit.ly/HVsceb and Unarticulated Value (Ross) 2006 PhD pdf
Clone of System Change Value and Ilities
From blog entry understandingsociety
Meaning and Causation. Expanded from IM-1163
Social Mechanisms
based on Kolb 2005 article and 1984 publication on Experiential Learning and Pepper World Hypotheses via John Barton. See also The Art of the State IM and Social Relations Worldviews IM and The Educated Mind IM
The Structure of Learning and Knowledge
Hybrid conceptual mapping of relationships involving system causal loop diagram linked with ABM. Output of the problem conceptualization phase of the modelling process prior to developing a computational hybrid model in AnyLogic. Includes Nate Osgood's O PARTIES extension of Ross Hammond's PARTE. See also earlier Canadian version Insight
Conceptual map of hybrid CLD and ABM
From Am J Public Health April 2015 Article Relates to Service Identification in the Health Service Network Improvement Matrix IM
Health Care Delivery Framework
