This model is an element of the effective problem solving program.

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Based on 1990 SDR Article. Control systems act to make their own input match internal standards or reference signals. Competent control systems create illusions of stimulus response causality. Stimulus-response theory can approximate the relationship between disturbance and action, but it can't predict the consequences of behavior. These consequences are maintained despite disturbances. See also Double loop learning and Nurse Thinking Insights.

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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This is an example of how to use Folders to enfold insights so others can unfold them later and develop an understanding of the relationships.

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Drifting Goals Stock & Flow Simulation model.

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

Faced with a performance gap the two most obvious responses are to work harder or work smarter. There are trade offs associated with each, some obvious, some not so obvious.

Derived from Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement by Repenning and Sterman.

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A balancing loop depiction of employing a diet to reduce the gap between a desired weight and current weight.

The situation Big Box Distribution considers to be a problem is an average accounts receivable period which is considered unacceptable as it is costing them money.

This is a definition of the Systems Thinking Interactive Learning Environment (STILE) development process which was used to create Beyond Connecting the Dots (BCtD).

Use a savings account model to investigate the manner in which inflows and outflows govern the quantity of a stock. Extend the structure to create and investigate the relationships of a growth producing reinforcing loop.

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A model demonstrating the various options that are available for the Link primitive.

The issue of increasing private and government debt to banks is a major concern after the financial crisis of 2008 (see Figure at link given below). In order to understand why our society and government is increasingly indebted to banks we need to understand how our current money system works and why we need a continuous infusion of new money in a growing economy. “Why We Are Increasingly Indebted To Banks?” investigates the reasons behind this and suggest a possible solution.

The simple diet CLD structure implemented as a SFD simulation.

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The calorie reduction model elaborated to include weight implications.

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Population Growth in an Agrarian Society with the addition of Industry.

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How Systems Thinking World came to be where it is and where it's seems to be heading at present.

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At this stage it is essential to understand and admit that the task at hand completely overwhelms the current methods. The way forward lies in realizing the essential nature of collaboration and the need for an integrated tool set to support collaboration. Even with that as the realization, current understanding indicates that the integrated tool set necessary to support the needed collaboration simply does not exist. And, not only does it not exist, it is most likely beyond the resources of any one vendor to provide it if they wished. So what are the options?

Realizing that virtual collaboration is the avenue of resort and that the Internet is pervasive, the old tools and processes are highly unlikely to support the new speed of collaboration. The old tools are those such as word processor, drawing, presentation, spreadsheet, modeling and simulation which are confined to the computer on your desk and require that once you develop something you have few options available for sharing.

OK, we have a problem. Yet, do we really know what the problem is? More often than not we look at the symptoms, consider them the problem and attempt to fix them. This actually dooms us to failure because they're only symptoms.

Network Magic's rapid growth creates a growing demand for resources. And the more they satisfy their customers the more difficult the problem becomes.

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While Knowledge-Centered Support is rather easy to understand and has amazing potential realizing that potential seems to be quite elusive.

While understanding the interacting components responsible for the situation is important it is even more important to understand the stakeholders as they are the ones responsible for the interacting components being the way they are.

Now that we have some context for the situation it's appropriate to begin to investigate, though possibly not where you might think. And the investigation is actually a bit hindered because management fired the accounts receivables department. What I'm really interested in is trends as to how things have evolved over time.