The simple diet SFD simulation elaborated to indlcue calories, calorie reduction and metabolism.

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This structure show the potential benefit from the development of a knowledgebase to support performance. With this potential benefit why is it so difficult for it to happen. What loops might be missing here.

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Storytelling allows you to build a display sequence for an insight so it can be unfolded to tell the story of the model. You can sequence primitive visibility, messages and javascript actions to unfold the story of the model.

While it's rather straight forward to invest money in places that generate interest over time why isn't that more of us don't do that and become rich?

Inventory Model v4.0 calculates min days inv & max days inv and makes adjustments for desired service level. See also: Inventory Model v3.0.

The approach is to investigate the US Economy from a macro perspective, then the Public Sector in more detail and then expand out to the World Economy.

The Flipping a Coin insight computes and display the cumulative results of flipping a coin for 1,000 flips.

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Developing a strategy for dealing with a situation begins with a description of the situation and the preferred state for today, not in some distant future, and the perceived implications of not doing anything.

Thoughts on why storytelling is critical for enabling others to understand relationship models once they're developed. This was done for the Learning Community Group at ODU Mar 2019.

An example of dynamic equilibrium from Change Management: A Columbo Approach.

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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.

Perspective on the difference between Process and System.

From reading Why Politics Makes Us Stupid by Ezra Klein I though I had discovered a new archetype though it's really just a simple reinforcing structure, or so it seems.

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

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There exists a well defined set of possible ways to alter an existing set of interactions. Each of these alterations will produce a particular effect depending on the relations the change is relative to. Identifying which are possible and which will migrate the interactions to produce the desired situation is the essence of the strategy.

Trying to understand the affect of loans on money in circulation.

The Button primitive enables you to write JavaScript code that controls various aspects of the model via the Insight Maker API.

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

The process as currently understood for developing and managing the scripts associated with videos and webinars.

What seems to make sense at this point is to first identify the functional aspects of the tool set even though we're aware they cannot all come from one vendor.

The intent here is to provide guidance for creating well structured and documented relationship maps that you can share with your audience and they are likely to find understandable and informative.

To this point components which are likely so support aspects of a virtual collaboration have been identified. The question now becomes how does one foster interactions between participants such that there is a definite possibility of producing meaningful results.

To this point the Situation, Behavior, Model, Stakeholder and Boundary aspects of this situation have been investigated. It is now appropriate to consider the assumptions that have been made to this point and ensure we are on a solid foundation before proceeding to the Leverage and Strategy aspects are considered.