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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The simple diet CLD structure implemented as a SFD simulation.

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This model was simply to depict the various function groups on the Make an Insight screen.

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This is the model of the collaborative model development process which is being developed in a collaborative method to help understand what guidelines might be developed to aid in the model development.

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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.

Use of the latest version of the button scripts for unfolding a model or walking through the comments.

How we know what we know.

Discussion groups, or bulletin boards if you prefer, come in numerous forms though for all their forms they are all pretty much the same. And, if you've found your way here then you probably belong to one or more of them.

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.

This model was started at the STIA+ Conference in Seattle on April 18th by Rebecca Niles of Leverage Networks for discussion at her Open Space session. The intent is to continue that open space here in a virtual context.

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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Network Magic is high tech start up growing rapidly and having difficulty developing resources to respond to customer demand.

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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.

Examples of Systems.

This is just a sample to use for embedding an insight.

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Influences which work in opposition to sustainable capitalism and influences that might work to further promote it.

The calorie reduction model elaborated to include exercise calories.

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The problem with microworlds is that too often people simply learn to play the game and the deeper lessons associated with the underlying structure and its associated patterns of behavior are completely missed. It is more appropriate for people to build and work with models to develop a deeper understanding of the relationships and then relate them to family, community, school and the world.

The predicament forcing us toward virtual collaboration and our learning about relationships is hopefully encouraging us toward the systemic perspective.

Causal loop diagrams are more rigorous than rich pictures though are still only contain a very few elements with well defined rules for connecting them.

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We are embedded in a larger system and unless we realize it an act accordingly we are likely to be the victim of it. From Introduction to System Dynamics: Overview by John Sterman

This model introduces the S/O and +/- notation for depicting the relations that might exist between two elements along with why the +/- notation is preferred.

This model depicts the relationship responsible for a declining sales goal scenario. This is an example of a Drifting Goals Systems Archetype.

Keep as an example of what we had to do before Storytelling?

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