How to Sell System Dynamics (Or Anything Else)
How to Sell System Dynamics (Or Anything Else) If it’s so good – why is System Dynamics so hard to sell? The key to selling System Dynamics has nothing to do with what we’ve learned in grad school. Instead, the key is to clarify a fundamental confusion everyone seems...
Q&A Session: From Problem Selection to Modeling and Career Development with Mohammad Jalali
Q&A Session: From Problem Selection to Modeling and Career Development with Mohammad Jalali A Q&A session with Mohammad Jalali. An interactive event where the audience is the main driver of the talk. Questions from all directions, from how to choose a good...
How Food and System Dynamics Gave me A Career
How Food and System Dynamics Gave me A Career A discussion of two System Dynamics projects that had some real impact and then reflect on how this happened, and what needs to be in place for us system dynamicists to have an impact. Papers mentioned: Transforming Food...
Documenting the Modeling Process
Documenting the Modeling Process Building a simulation model requires lots of information to be gathered. This information comes in many formats such as flip charts, pictures, emails, and spreadsheets. How should this information be stored so that it is easily...
Practitioner Profile: Jack Homer, Homer Consulting
Practitioner Profile: Jack Homer, Homer Consulting Welcome to Practitioner Profiles, a series of up-close blog-length interviews with experienced System Dynamics practitioners. We have a standard set of 10 questions and let practitioners take the responses in any...
The System Dynamics Conference From the Perspective of a Multi-Method Simulations Developer
The System Dynamics Conference From the Perspective of a Multi-Method Simulations Developer System Dynamics, Agent-Based and Discrete-Event simulations are three competing and complementary simulation methods that are used to address a wide range of real-world...
Data & Uncertainty in System Dynamics
Data & Uncertainty in System Dynamics Jay Forrester cautioned that “fitting curves to past system data can be misleading”. Certainly, that can be true, if the model is deficient. But we can have our cake and eat it too: a good model that passes traditional System...
Modeling for Improved Organizational Staff Diversity
Modeling for Improved Organizational Staff Diversity We cannot all succeed when (more than) half of us are held back. This slightly modified quote is from Malala Yousafzai, the courageous young woman who stood up for her right to be educated. It summarizes the ethos...
Is System Dynamics the Missing Subject in our Educational System?
Is System Dynamics the Missing Subject in our Educational System? Is System Dynamics so valuable that we should encourage its inclusion in our educational system? This year, presentations at International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) supported this hypothesis....
System Dynamics Focuses More on Sustainability Than the Sustainable Development Goals
System Dynamics Focuses More on Sustainability Than the Sustainable Development Goals Register today to watch all 2022 conference recordings. Available until September 30! The world is facing major global challenges that result in moving towards or beyond social and...
Multisolving Working With Complexity and Interconnection
Multisolving Working With Complexity and Interconnection Climate change. Biodiversity loss. Racial, gender, and economic inequity. Global pandemic and other health crises. Each of these challenges is serious on its own, but they also interact. Inaction on one crisis...
Some Housing SD links…
Here are some links to external publications using system dynamics on housing issues: Kaveh Dianati’s PhD (2022) London’s Housing Crisis; A System Dynamics Analysis of Long-term Developments: 40 Years into the Past and 40 Years into the Future.OECD (2021)...
Using System Dynamics to Teach and Learn about COVID-19
Using System Dynamics to Teach and Learn about COVID-19 This Webinar is free due to the generous contribution of the University at Albany and California State University, Chico A distinguished team of panelists demonstrated how we can all think globally and act...
Economics SIG News: Summer 2022
Economics SIG News: Summer 2022 Summer 2022 Events Tyrone Keynes on “The Impact on National Accounts from NPI’s: Economic Pandemic Model” May 12th, 2022 Noon – 1PM (New York) Demonstrating the effects on the national and regional accounts of...
New Horizons of Systems Science
New Horizons of Systems Science This Seminar was sponsored by the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). Systems theory is developing to include new perspectives with a focus on integrated and inclusive transdisciplinary system approaches. This panel...
The Food Packaging Problem. A Food System Problem Not a Packaging Problem
The Food Packaging Problem. A Food System Problem Not a Packaging Problem Starting with the five components of the supply chain for food packaging, the presentation proceeds to describe a process for adopting System Dynamics. The process describes and uncovers the...
The Dark Side of Projects: Delays, Disruption, and Disputes
The Dark Side of Projects: Delays, Disruption, and Disputes When a project moves from the honeymoon phase to finger-pointing and distrust, you have reached the dark side of Project Management. Whether a dispute gets to the level of legal action or not, the process of...
How to Publish in the System Dynamics Review
How to Publish in the System Dynamics Review In this webinar, we had an overview of the System Dynamics Review – the journal of the System Dynamics Society. We learned about its growing positive performance and impact. We reviewed the process of submitting, revising,...
Economics SIG News: Spring 2022
Economics SIG News: Spring 2022 Spring 2022 Events Networking and Discussion Session February 11th, 2022 Noon – 1PM (New York) See this event page for details David Wheat April 8th, 2022 Noon – 1PM (New York) Professor I. David Wheat will present on the...
Working with Loops That Matter: technique and tools to analyze feedback loops
Working with Loops That Matter: technique and tools to analyze feedback loops In this hands-on webinar, we’ll work together to analyze System Dynamics models and learn how to discover which feedback loops are driving model behavior. We’ll use the Loops that Matter...