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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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.

Drifting Goals Stock & Flow Simulation model.

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Population Growth in an Agrarian Society with the addition of Deaths and Food Consumption.

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Simplest Innovation diffusion model from Sterman's Business Dynamics Ch 9

Demonstrate that the same diagram is appropriate whether the interest rate is positive or negative.

The delays associated with adjusting the shower is a very common example of the Balancing Loop with Delay Systems Archetype. 

The Home Heating System can be used to demonstrate how we get caught in dilemmas and become victims of ourselves.

Demo of population growth with distinct agents.

This model is derived from the paper "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement" by Nelson P. Repenning and John D Sterman. See Insight 9781 for a simulation of this model.

Examples of Systems.

While all things are related for a particular situation all things are not relevant. We need to develop a simplified model of reality which depicts those interactions which are responsible for the patterns of behavior and current situation. We want the simplest model which enables the requisite understanding. This is no easy task though.

OK, we have a problem. Yet, do we really know what the problem is? More often than not we look at the symptoms, consider them the problem and attempt to fix them. This actually dooms us to failure because they're only symptoms.

This model introduces the S/O and +/- notation for depicting the relations that might exist between two elements along with why the +/- notation is preferred.

The issue of increasing private and government debt to banks is a major concern after the financial crisis of 2008 (see Figure at link given below). In order to understand why our society and government is increasingly indebted to banks we need to understand how our current money system works and why we need a continuous infusion of new money in a growing economy. “Why We Are Increasingly Indebted To Banks?” investigates the reasons behind this and suggest a possible solution.

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 is a model used to generate the historical patterns of behavior for the Network Magic example.

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Reinforcing Loop/SFD Simulation allow one to experience the explicit implications of the interactions.

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Are there environmental/physical limits to humanity? Based on the Are There Limits? blog post by Tom Fiddaman.

A simple agent based foraging model. Consumer agents will move between fertile patches consuming them.

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All the insights you create will be with components from the Add Primitive menu and they will be connected together with Flows/Transitions or Links.

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.

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

The model construction process is actually a balancing loop which endeavors to employ an abstract version of real events to form a model which produces conclusions and behavior which mimic the real events.