We often set out to solve a problem or accomplish some particular result and things seem to go as planned. As time progresses it seems that progress becomes more and more difficult, if not impossible, and things may actually become worse than when we started. When this happens it is typically a Fixes that Fail structure that's operating. See also Archetypes.

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Adopted from An Introduction to Systems Thinking with STELLA by Barry Richmond.

A spatially aware, agent based model of disease spread. There are three classes of people: susceptible (healthy), infected (sick and infectious), and recovered (healthy and temporarily immune).

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Example of using Pulse function to create a recurring delay.

The limits to growth structure is based on the basic growth structure. And, as should be obvious, nothing grows forever as growth requires resources. Those required resources become a limits to growth. See also Archetypes.

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

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

A spatially aware, agent based model of disease spread. There are three classes of people: susceptible (healthy), infected (sick and infectious), and recovered (healthy and temporarily immune).

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Example of using Pulse function to create a recurring delay.

Because everything is connected you can't do just one thing. And while everything is connected everything isn't relevant.

A Tragedy of the Commons situation exists whenever two or more activities, each, which in order to produce results, rely on a shared limited resource. Results for these activities continue to develop as long as their use of the limited resource doesn't exceed the resource limit. Once this limit is reached the results produced by each activity are limited to the level at which the resource is replenished. See also Archetypes.

The Model being used as part of the Collaborative Model Development project at Systems Thinking World.

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

A simple Susceptible - Infected - Recovered disease as a stock and flow model.

We begin with a Bank with $0 and Borrowers with $100. Every year the Bank loans the Borrowers money at some interest rate. If the Bank loans $50 at 10% interest in 20 years the bank will have all the money and the Borrowers will be broke.

Examples of reinforcing and balancing loops enhanced with images to maybe them more visually engaging.

An Addiction structure is the same as the Shifting the Burden structure though with the annoying aspect that one becomes addicted to the side effect ensuring that Fundamental Solution won't get implemented and the Symptomatic Solution will be applied repeatedly, and likely with greater frequency. See also Archetypes.

Some people have found it easier to communicate interactions and their implications with Connection Circles rather than Causal Loop Diagrams.

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There are numerous influences which work against the possibility of sustainable capitalism though there are a few that might be put in place to actually support its emergence.

The typical problem solving cycle.

These are case studies which have been undertaken via the virtual systemic inquiry process.

Part 1 demonstrates Picture primitives and Links to create representations of interactions. These are made visually attractive because the Picture primitives are overlay'd with images.

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What do activities of these images have in common?

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.