Summary of Thorstein Veblen's 1916 Book The Higher Learning in America pdf

Diagrams from Greene 2017 nejm article Putting the patient back together Social Medicine, Network Medicine, and the Limits of Reductionism

From SDR Jan 2012 article  and 1988 killian award lectures Youtube

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)

WIP ideas for group model building representation See later Australian Version Hybrid  Insight

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

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.

From Stephen Toulmin's Book The Uses of Argument Cambridge University Press 2003. See wikipedia  Also Francis Miller Claim Hexagon 2025 web article

Based on G.P. Cimellaro et al. Framework for analytical quantification of disaster resilience Engineering Structures 32 (2010) 3639–3649 paper

From MIT ESD work (de Weck Ilities ) esp on Survivability (Medecki) http://bit.ly/HVsceb and Unarticulated Value (Ross) 2006 PhD pdf

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

From Am J Public Health April 2015 Article  Relates to Service Identification in the Health Service Network Improvement Matrix IM

WIP based on Nate Osgood's Motivation for Dynamic Simulation Models in System Science Lecture see Youtube video at 20:34

Adding change over time to relative risk, odds ratio and population attributable fraction epidemiology concepts see wikipedia and examples .

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

From blog entry understandingsociety

Meaning and Causation. Expanded from IM-1163

From MIT ESD work (de Weck Ilities ) esp on Survivability (Medecki) http://bit.ly/HVsceb and Unarticulated Value (Ross) 2006 PhD pdf

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

Summary of Ray Pawson's Book The Science of Evaluation: A Realist Manifesto See also lse review 2013

Improvement Science as one of the clusters of interacting methods for improving health services network design and delivery using complex decision technologies IM-17952

WIP based on Mascia2017 Analyzing conservation strategies article and other mostly private insights. A more detailed form of structure agency IM-1163

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

Clone of IM-806 modified to integrate AnyLogic Realworld, Model World with Van de Ven Engaged Scholarship and LAnd Use Modelling approaches. See also Complex Decision Technologies IM