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Honoring Excellence: A Glimpse into the Awards of the International System Dynamics Conference
Honoring Excellence: A Glimpse into the Awards of the International System Dynamics Conference The International System Dynamics...
From Bergen to Global: UiB’s System Dynamics Group
From Bergen to Global: UiB’s System Dynamics Group The System Dynamics Group, an autonomous research group at the University of...
Consideo’s Insight into the Global Energy Transition: A Systems Perspective
Consideo’s Insight into the Global Energy Transition: A Systems Perspective Complexities of Energy TransitionThe global energy...
A Digital Twin Business Model in 40 Hours
A Digital Twin Business Model in 40 Hours Though long past the date when I should have ‘retired’, I just can’t resist...
2023 PwC Mark Paich Hackathon Highlights
2023 PwC Mark Paich Hackathon Highlights The System Dynamics Society and PwC US joined forces to hold a hackathon event that brought...
A Close-Up on Our New Look
A Close-Up on Our New Look We are excited to reveal our new logo and branding, embodying the System Dynamics Society’s values and...
Celebrating Women’s International Day
Celebrating Women’s International Day Over the past several decades, more women have become part of the System Dynamics field,...
The Beer Game: Understanding the Complexities of Supply Chain
The Beer Game: Understanding the Complexities of Supply Chain The Beer Game, a simulation game developed by MIT, simplifies the complex...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Metacognition in Stock-flow Failure
Metacognition in Stock-flow Failure Considering the nature of problems in dynamic systems, the systems thinking literature introduces...
The Pistachio You Eat Is Affecting Growers’ Water in Iran
The Pistachio You Eat Is Affecting Growers’ Water in Iran Iran and the United States are the leading producers of pistachios in the...
Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling
Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling We had people joining us from all over the world at the “Introduction to Modeling...
ISDC 2021 Highlights: Connecting Perspectives on Gender Dynamics
The International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) convenes practitioners who demonstrate what’s new and developing in their fields with...
Little’s Law and Stock-Flow Performance
Little’s Law and Stock-Flow Performance Understanding the mechanisms underlying stock-flows is fundamental in managing dynamic...
Introduction to Modeling Process
Introduction to Modeling Process We had 560 people joining us from all over the world at the “Introduction to Modeling...
Kotlin System Dynamics Toolkit
Kotlin System Dynamics Toolkit .We developed Kotlin SD Toolkit, or ksdtoolkit, in late 2019/20 as a tool that is suitable for both...
For Better Estimation
For Better Estimation Nate Silver teaches us how signal and noise can be confounded in magical ways, and how we are trying our best to get...
ISDC 2021 Highlights: A Peek into the Future of System Dynamics Visualization
ISDC 2021 Highlights: A Peek into the Future of System Dynamics Visualization The International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) convenes...
Don’t Dismiss Goodness-of-Fit
Don’t Dismiss Goodness-of-Fit Next year, the famous Limits to Growth (LtG) study will turn fifty. The coming anniversary is causing...
Practitioner Profile: Hyunjung Kim, California State University, Chico
Practitioner Profile: Hyunjung Kim, California State University, Chico Welcome to Practitioner Profiles, a series of up-close blog-length...
Practitioner Profile: Matteo Pedercini, Millennium Institute
Practitioner Profile: Matteo Pedercini, Millennium Institute Welcome to Practitioner Profiles, a series of up-close blog-length interviews...
Top 10 Tips to Engage People with a System Dynamics Model
Top 10 Tips to Engage People with a System Dynamics Model Andrew P. Jones is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive and a...
Behavioral Dynamics of COVID-19
Behavioral Dynamics of COVID-19 Over a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its true global magnitude...
Practitioner Profile: Etiënne Rouwette, Radboud University
Practitioner Profile: Etiënne Rouwette, Radboud University Welcome to Practitioner Profiles, a series of up-close blog-length interviews...
Using System Dynamics to Improve Patient Care
Using System Dynamics to Improve Patient Care By Şanser Güz, Orkun İrsoy, and Naz Beril Akan Why do many people practice and advocate...
Practitioner Profile: Douglas McKelvie, Symmetric Scenarios
Practitioner Profile: Douglas McKelvie, Symmetric Scenarios Welcome to Practitioner Profiles, a series of up-close blog-length interviews...
Systems Thinking, Fast and Slow
Systems Thinking, Fast and Slow In 2011, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman published his best-selling book “Thinking, Fast...