Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

When one undertakes to create a model there are a number of guidelines that are considered essential for consideration if there is to be a success with the model.

All you wanted to do was put a bird feeder in your yard to attract birds.

What do activities of these images have in common?

All you wanted to do was put a bird feeder in your yard to attract birds and make for a more pleasant morning. And...

When one undertakes to create a model there are a number of guidelines that are considered essential for consideration if there is to be a success with the model.

All the following have a common characteristic.

What do activities of these images have in common?

The structure responsible for rabbit population growth.

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..

What do activities of these images have in common?

What do activities of these images have in common?

The structure responsible for rabbit population growth.

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

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

This common archetype of systems that include relapse or recidivism allows exploration of the unintended effects of increasing upstream capacity and swamping downstream capacity. The increase in the relapse rate eventually returns to swamp upstream capacity as well. A social welfare example, based on a TANF case study, from How Small System Dynamics Models Can Help the Policy Process. N. Ghaffarzadegan, J. Lyneis, GP Richardson. System Dynamics Review 27,1 (2011) 22-44 Conference version at http://bit.ly/HlxtZj

What do activities of these images have in common?

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 752 for a causal loop version of this model.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

All you wanted to do was put a bird feeder in your yard to attract birds and make for a more pleasant morning. And...

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

The structure responsible for rabbit population growth.