There's actually more to filling a swimming pool with water than you might realize.

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.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

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

The structure responsible for rabbit population growth.

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.

The structure responsible for rabbit population growth.

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

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See also...

* Success in Acquisitions: Using Archetypes to Beat the Odds by Novak & Levine

* Systems Thinking Metaphors for Illuminating Fundamental Policy Dilemmas by Saeed

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

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

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...

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

If we pay close attention to our actions and the typical outcomes of those actions it would be evident that there are frequently occurring patterns that develop. And there is a relation between the patterns.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

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.

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.

There are three types of models most commonly used.

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.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

All the following have a common characteristic.