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Book Signing & Book Swap at ISDC 2023

Book Signing & Book Swap at ISDC 2023

Book Signing & Book Swap at ISDC 2023 Learn about their books directly from the authors! Don’t miss out! Several book authors will join us at the Book Signing event at ISDC 2023. This event will be held live at the conference in Chicago, on Tuesday, July 25 at...

A Close-Up on Our New Look

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 vision for the future. The looped arrows with an S curve symbolize growth, change over time, and commitment to raising complex...

Exploring Careers in System Dynamics

Exploring Careers in System Dynamics

Exploring Careers in System Dynamics The Exploring Careers in System Dynamics webinar, held on March 29, 2023, was an engaging panel discussion featuring experts Sharon Els, Eduardo Romanenko, and Georg Pallaske, moderated by Shane Carnohan. Attendees had the...

Engaging Younger Audiences in Climate Change Education

Engaging Younger Audiences in Climate Change Education

Engaging Younger Audiences in Climate Change Education This webinar focused on engaging younger audiences in climate change education using the analogy of a bathtub. Linda Booth Sweeney, a systems educator, and author shared innovative ways to educate children about...

Celebrating Women’s International Day

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, greatly increasing gender diversity in our discipline. We have many amazing, inspiring, brilliant, and visionary female leaders. Today...

Planning and Managing Performance Improvement Programs

Planning and Managing Performance Improvement Programs

Planning and Managing Performance Improvement Programs See also a more extensive article based on this post, and watch the recording below on the topic. Organizations of all sizes and types undertake programs of effort to improve their performance, whether it’s...

How To Review for ISDC 2023

How To Review for ISDC 2023

How To Review for ISDC 2023 Reviews provide valuable feedback for authors, offering new perspectives and posing insightful questions to help them improve their work. They can inspire authors to think more deeply about their research, while also exposing reviewers to...

Systems Thinking in the Age of Digital Ecosystems

Systems Thinking in the Age of Digital Ecosystems

Systems Thinking in the Age of Digital Ecosystems Discover how Systems Thinking can drive world-making innovations and support the evolution of traditional organizational structures and cultures in a rapidly changing business landscape. Navigate the impact of...

How to Sell System Dynamics (Or Anything Else)

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...

How Food and System Dynamics Gave me A Career

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

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

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...

Data & Uncertainty in System Dynamics

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

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...