Part 1 demonstrates Picture primitives and Links to create representations of interactions. These are made visually attractive because the Picture primitives are overlay'd with images.

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

Consider the following "Sustaining the Forest" model intended to provide another example of how unexpected the behavior of a web of extended interactions can be.

Just some thoughts for Runy.

There are about fifteen known archetypes with an interesting set of relationships among them.

SystemsWiki's Musings

Demo of changing vector length on the fly.

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

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

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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The boundary defines the extent of the system.

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

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.

Little Red Riding Hood walking through the woods to Grandma's house. How long will it take?

Investigations into the relationships responsible for the success and failure of nations. This investigation was prompted after reading numerous references on the subject and perceiving that *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Acemoglu and Robinson seem to make a great deal of sense.

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

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

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

There are about fifteen known archetypes with an interesting set of relationships among them.

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A map of the elements associated with Systems Thinking as defined by different sources.

Aapted from The Dynamics of Identity Theft: A Comparison of Symptomatic and Systemic Solutions by Mary Lou G. Bourne and Michael L. Deaton

The goal seeking structure endeavors to bring a balance between a current state and a desired state. This is one of the two foundation archetypes. The other being the growth structure. See also Archetypes.

Investigations into the relationships responsible for the success and failure of nations. This investigation was prompted after reading numerous references on the subject and perceiving that *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Acemoglu and Robinson seem to make a great deal of sense.