Little Red Riding Hood walking through the woods to Grandma's house. How long will it take?

A Conveyor is just a special type of a stock.

What's the real difficulty associated with managing time?

This page contains a set of models associated with the LinkedIn discussion which was an endeavor to develop a Systemic Perspective associated with Chris Argyris' "Teaching Smart People How to Learn" article.

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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..

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

Based on a dialogue on the System Dynamics mailing list regarding the current level of acceptance of System Dynamics after it has been promoted for over 70 years I dredged up the following set of influences as a thought exercise. This is an example of a Drifting Goals Archetype.

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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.

The purpose of this model is to have the user change the value of stocks, flows and converters to experience a variety of different graphical results. Understanding this generic model is important pre-requisite to learning about intravenous drugs in the body, radioactivity, self-esteem, water flowing from a drain and many other basic natural systems.

How does a goal seeking structure progress with a resource constraint.

Purpose: Employ the Mono Lake model adapted from "Modeling the Environment" by Andrew Ford as a basis for developing a set of guidelines to support asynchronous multi-user model development.

Mono Lake is an ancient inland sea on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. From a policy point of view Mono Lake is the story of how a handful of people began a campaign to save a dying lake

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Joe P. is currently managing a project that's behind schedule and he's experiencing substantial pressure to get the project back on track.

Insight Maker is web based multi-user modeling and simulation environment which enables distributed virtual collaboration.

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Drifting Goals archetype for pressure to lower standards impacting efforts to reduce pollution and improve current air quality.

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This Loan Cost Model is the second in the series. It takes into account the potential cost of student loans in the case that the student does not manage to graduate college or does not succeed in their career.

• Traditional Career Model
• Savings Model

WIP Ideas from Science Special Issue May 2014

This Savings Model is the third in the series. It illustrates the difference in savings over time for a doctor or for a skilled worker who went to a trade school.

• Traditional Career Model
• Loan Cost Model

Comparison of scalar and vector version of the rabbit population model.

Development of a model to understand why we don't all get rich from investment accounts.

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.

Reinforcing Loop/SFD Simulation allow one to experience the explicit implications of the interactions.

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This is a sample model to demonstrate the Insight Maker Optimization function.

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.