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

Example of a Bathtub overflow without using an If-Then-Else statement.

Just some thoughts for Runy.

Model is created by Gene Bellinger. Original model can be accessed from https://insightmaker.com/insight/2249/Adjusting-the-Shower-SFD.

A model of the influences for Congress Creating Legislation.

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Bill Braun's version from the HPSIG wiki.

A spatially aware, agent based model of disease spread. There are three classes of people: susceptible (healthy), infected (sick and infectious), and recovered (healthy and temporarily immune).

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

Our actions are based on our beliefs and the results of those actions are the basis for our beliefs. The difficulty we create for ourselves is that we make assumptions as to how to interpret the results we select based on our beliefs. As a result we are often operating on a flawed perspective of reality.

A spatially aware, agent based model of disease spread. There are three classes of people: susceptible (healthy), infected (sick and infectious), and recovered (healthy and temporarily immune).

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The typical problem solving cycle.

Population Growth in an Agrarian Society with the addition of agriculture.

How to create  fixed random variable which is set at the beginning of the simulation.

My first relationship map which demonstrates the build out of the relationship options for a project which is behind schedule.

The boundary defines the extent of the system.

Cloud example. If you really want clouds a sources in your model it's pretty easy to create one.

Once the strategy has been developed it's up to the Stakeholders who own the segments of the revised model to implement it so a new pattern of behavior is created thus effecting the desired situation.

Model is created by Gene Bellinger. Original model can be accessed from https://insightmaker.com/insight/2249/Adjusting-the-Shower-SFD.

Demo of changing vector length on the fly.

This is a template which one might use as a basis for creating Insight Maker Relationship models. Links have default style of the blue ones in the diagram. The easiest way to get the red dashed links is to CTRL+d to duplicate them and then connect where appropriate.

Model is created by Gene Bellinger. Original model can be accessed from https://insightmaker.com/insight/2249/Adjusting-the-Shower-SFD.

Some people have found it easier to communicate interactions and their implications with Connection Circles rather than Causal Loop Diagrams.

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The typical approach to dealing with situations. We simply want them to go away.

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Yesterday's actions are responsible for the world we experience today. And today's actions are responsible for the world that we will experience tomorrow. The "Creating the Future" model is intended to provide a better sense of the common process associated with the unexpected unfolding of the future..