Forrester Award Winners

2009
No Award
 

2008
Kimberly M. Thompson and Radboud J. Duintjer Tebbens

For "Eradication Versus Control for Poliomyelitis: an Economic Analysis" published in The Lancet 369(9570): 1363-137, April 2007.
 

2007
David Lane and Elke Husemann

For "Steering Away from Scylla, Falling into Charybdis: The Importance of Recognising, Simulating and Challenging Reinforcing Loops in Social Systems." published in Entscheiden in Komplexen Systemen [Decision-making in Complex Systems] in 2002.
 

For "Exploring policy options with a behavioral climate-economy model," published in the System Dynamics Review 18(2) Summer 2002.
 

For “Competitive Strategy Dynamics,” published in 2002.
 

For “Towards the Definition and Use of a Core Set of Archetypal Structures in System Dynamics,” published in the System Dynamics Review 19(1) Spring 2003.
 

For his paper “Understanding Fire Fighting in New Product Development” published in 2001 in the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
 

For "Business Dynamics, Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World" (McGraw-Hill, 2000).
 

For "Modeling innovation processes for decision support and management simulation."  System Dynamics Review 12(3): 211-234, 1996.
 

For "Not Only the Tragedy of the Commons: Misperceptions of Bioeconomics." Management Science 44(9): 1234-1248, 1998.

For "Group Model Building: Facilitating Team Learning Using System Dynamics" (John Wiley and Sons, 1996).
 

1997
Jack B. Homer

For "A System Dynamics Model of National Cocaine Prevalence." System Dynamics Review 9(1): 49-78.
 

1996
Andrew Ford

For "Estimating the Impact of Efficiency Standards on Uncertainty of the Northwest Electric System." Operations Research. July-August. 1990.
 

For Towards Sustainable Development: Essays on System Analysis of National Policy (Progressive Publishers, 1991).
 

For Software Project Dynamics: An Integrated Approach (Prentice Hall, 1991).
 

For Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991).
 

For The Fifth Discipline (Doubleday, 1990).
 

For STRATAGEM.
 

For "Rationality in the Analysis of Behavioral Simulation Models." Management Science 31(7): 900-916, 1985.<
 

For STELLA and the Academic User's Guide To STELLA.<
 

For "Modeling Managerial Behavior: Misperceptions of Feedback in a Dynamic Decision Making Experiment." Management Science 35(3): 321-339, 1988.
 

1986
Erik Mosekilde and Javier Aracil

For multiple articles on complex nonlinear dynamic systems.
 

1985
George P. Richardson and Alexander L. Pugh, III

For Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling with DYNAMO (MIT Press, 1981).
 

1984
 No Award
 

1983
Nancy H. Roberts, David F. Andersen, Ralph M. Deal, Michael S. Garet and William A. Shaffer

For Introduction to Computer Simulation (Addison Wesley, 1983).
 

Dana Meadows Award Winners

2009
Timothy Taylor, David Ford*, Shari Yvon-Lewis*, Eric Lindquist*
"Science, engineering, and technology in the policy process for natural systems"

Honorable Mention (all equally ranked):

Howard Hao-Chun Chuang
"Team Psychological Safety and Group Learning: Cycle-Time Reduction for IT-enabled Collaborative Product Development"

Margaret Stringfellow and Meghan Dierks*
"Healthcare Industry Incentive Structures Pressure System Operators to Operate in a High-risk State"
 

2008
Antuela Anthi Tako and Stewart Robinson*
"Model building in System Dynamics and Discrete-event Simulation: a quantitative comparison"

Honorable Mention (all equally ranked):

Navid Ghaffarzadegan
"Effect of Conditional Feedback on Learning"

Hyunjung Kim
"Broadening boundary perception in a multi-organizational context: Study of a community mental health program in New York State"
 

2007
David Wheat
"The Feedback Method of Teaching Macroeconomics: Is it Effective?"

Honorable Mention (all equally ranked):

Firat Incioglu
"A Dynamic Simulation Model for Long-Term Hypertension Progression"

H. Willem Geert Phaff
"Visualising the Effects of Non-linearity by Creating Dynamic Causal Diagrams"
 

Honorable Mention (all equally ranked):

Jeroen Struben
"Identifying challenges for sustained adoption of alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure"

Burcu Tan
"A Dynamic Analysis of Long Term Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops"
 

Honorable Mention (all equally ranked):

Martin H. Kunc
"Illustrating the Competitive Dynamics of an Industry: The Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Industry Case Study"

Patricia Ochoa
"Policy Changes in the Swiss Electricity Market: A System Dynamics Analysis of Likely Market Responses"

Timothy D. Quinn
"Lab Turnaround Time and Delayed Discharges: A Systems Based Action Research Investigation"
 

Honorable Mention (all equally ranked):

Necdet Serhat Aybat, Sinem Daysal, Burcu Tan and Fulden Topaloğlu
“Decision Making Tests with Different Variations of The Stock Management Game”

Gökhan Dogan
“Confidence Interval Estimation in System Dynamics Models: Bootstrapping vs. Likelihood Ratio Method”

Jeroen Struben
“Technology Transitions: Identifying Challenges for Hydrogen Vehicles”
 

2003
David L. Cooke
“Learning from Incidents.”

Honorable Mention (all equally ranked):

Jan Jaap Bezemer and Henk Akkermans*
“Understanding Delays in Semiconductor Supply Chains”

Özge Pala and Jac A.M. Vennix*
“A Causal Look at the Occurrence of Biases in Strategic Change”

Klaus Vogstad, Ingrid Kristensen* and Ove Wolfgang*
“Tradable Green Certificates:  The Dynamics of Coupled Electricity Markets”
 

2002
Aldo Zagonel 
“Model Conceptualization in Group Model Building: A Review of the Literature Exploring the Tension Between Representing Reality and Negotiating a Social Order”

Honorable Mention (all equally ranked):

David Cooke
“A System Dynamics Analysis of the Westray Mine Disaster”

Paulo Goncalves
“When do Minor Shortages Inflate to Great Bubbles?”

Abhijit Mandal
“Creating Competitive Advantage through Dynamic Resource Interactions”

Ignacio Martinez and Gary Wadhwa*
“Modeling the Impact of Knowledge-Based Innovations:  The Case of Best Practices Implementation in a Small Health Care Private Practice”
 

2001
Hazhir Rahmandad and Joao Vieira da Cunha
"Tightening the iron cage or path dependence in norm formation: system dynamcs approach"

Honorable Mention (all equally ranked):

Ignacio Martinez and Luis Luna-Reyes
"The dynamics of best practices: a structural approach"

James Ritchie-Dunham
"Informing mental models for strategic decisionmaking: a simulation-based experiment"

Michelle Shields
"An experimental investigation of comparing the effects of case study, management flight simulator and facilitation of these methods on mental model development in a group setting"
 

System Dynamics Applications Awards

2009
Kenneth Cooper and Gregory Lee

For "Application of System Dynamics: Managing the Dynamics of Projects and Changes at Fluor"
 

2007
Vince Barabba, Chet Huber, Fred Cooke, Nick Pudar, Jim Smith, and Mark Paich

For "A Multimethod Approach for Creating New Business Models: The General Motors OnStar Project," published in Interfaces 32(1) January 2002.
 

Other Society Awards

2009
Andrew Ford, System Dynamics Society Outstanding Service Award

2005
Robert Eberlein, Lifetime Service Recognition Award

1998
R. Geoffrey Coyle, Lifetime Achievement Award

1997
Alexander L. Pugh, III, Lifetime Service Recognition Award