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

Borrowed from STW/STiA Certification program to help develop insights regarding situations of interest to New Community Paradigms. There are a number of things should be considered to ensure a view of the relevant influences.

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 endeavoring to develop an understanding of the nature of something it is generally useful to create a model of some type to aid in surfacing that understanding.

When endeavoring to develop an understanding of the nature of something it is generally useful to create a model of some type to aid in surfacing that understanding.

Based on a sound realization of reality we need an effective approach to dealing with situations which promotes the requisite understanding to develop a strategy that deals appropriately with the situation. A strategy which also is explicitly designed to minimize unintended consequences and puts in place responses to them should they arise.

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.

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This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

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

This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

Rain Barrel Model

All the following have a common characteristic.

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..

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

This is a more Traditional Career Model of how education works, with an increased lifetime earnings from going to college. The following are links to the other two models in the series.

• Loan Cost Model
• Savings Model

Rich Pictures, Causal Loop Diagrams and Stock & Flow Simulation Models are the 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.

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

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

This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

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

This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

All the following have a common characteristic.