This is just a sample to use for describing the Scratchpad feature in Insight Maker.

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Purpose: Employ the Mono Lake model adapted from "Modeling the Environment" by Andrew Ford as a basis for developing a set of guidelines to support asynchronous multi-user model development.

Mono Lake is an ancient inland sea on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. From a policy point of view Mono Lake is the story of how a handful of people began a campaign to save a dying lake.

• 10.06.04 v1.0 created and documented by Bellinger. Initial problem with the reference mode has been fixed.

A model of the collaborative model development process.

​Example of using a Macro as a counter. See the comment on Counter for a definition of the Macro then run the simulation to see the counter in action.

It is now appropriate to investigate the possible leverage points for the current situation in an attempt to understand the most appropriate components for the strategy.

Basic Stock & Flow models for use in Systemic Perspective video.

Initial causal loop diagram for the influences leading to the acceptance of Systems Thinking.

One of the four basic model forms presented by Hannon & Ruth in Dynamic Modeling.

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Simple bathtub model to show the difference between Stock and Flow. Run the model with various values for filling and draining to see the implications.

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Relative Control is one of the four generic archetypes developed by Eric Wolstenholme and maps to the Balancing Loop with Delay, Indecision, Limits to Results, Drifting Goals and Escalation Systems Archetypes.

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This model represents an elaboration of the Savings Account model to investigate the implications associated with intending to save money for retirement so an amount may be withdrawn monthly for living expenses.

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A Conveyor is just a special type of a stock.

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

Success to the successful archetype represents two reinforcing structures which may be in a delicate balance though as soon as one gains a small advantage the resource allocation favors the more successful and the result is then rapidly skewed in the direction of the more successful. See also Archetypes.

Thoughts on why storytelling is critical for enabling others to understand relationship models once they're developed. This was done for Deeanna Burleson Topics in Systems Science Apr 2019.

Faced with a performance gap the two most obvious responses are to work harder or work smarter. There are trade offs associated with each, some obvious, some not so obvious.

A model for unfolding the story about how stw videos are created.

A simple Susceptible - Infected - Recovered disease as a stock and flow model.

A Growth and Underinvestment structure is simply an elaborated Limits to Growth structure where the growth inhibitor is part of another Balancing Loop with an external standard and some delay. The real nasty thing about this structure is that the two Balancing Loops form a single Reinforcing Loop which inhibits growth.

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This model depicts the relationship responsible for a declining sales goal scenario. This is an example of a Drifting Goals Systems Archetype.

Keep as an example of what we had to do before Storytelling?

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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

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.

Relative Achievement is one of the four generic archetypes developed by Eric Wolstenholme and maps to the Success to the Successful Systems Archetype.

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An escalation structure results from two or more competing entities with the competition taking them to somewhere none of them want to be. See also Archetypes.

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