Diagram from CDC conference.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

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

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

The Home Heating System can be used to demonstrate how we get caught in dilemmas and become victims of ourselves.

Illustrates the effect of sleep, exercise, and lifestyle factors on one's level of energy.

Are there environmental/physical limits to humanity? Based on the Are There Limits? blog post by Tom Fiddaman.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

A Limits to Growth Systems Archetype consists of a Reinforcing Loop, the growth of which, after some success, is offset by the action of a Balancing Loop.

The Home Heating System can be used to demonstrate how we get caught in dilemmas and become victims of ourselves.

Clone of Causal Loop Diagrams for New Community Paradigms. Use the defined relationships and complete the loops to create a reinforcing and balancing structure. 

Balancing Loop with Delay Systems Archetype Causal Loop Diagram.

The Home Heating System can be used to demonstrate how we get caught in dilemmas and become victims of ourselves.

A quick set of examples for creating a simulation in Insight Maker.

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.

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.

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. As an example, consider multiple departments with an organization using IT resources, until they've exhausted IT capacity.

Very begining lab.

Insight Maker is completely web based making it easy to develop and share models, allows concurrent multi-user editing, and just happens to be FREE, which a pretty good feature/price ratio.

This diagram presents the valid relationships between stocks, flows, and parameters. Ghosts of Stocks, Flows, and Converters can be created as needed.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

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 1899 for a simulation of this model.