Practitioner Profile: Steve Peterson, Independent Consultant
Practitioner Profile: Steve Peterson, Independent Consultant 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...
Webinar Q&A | Applied System Dynamics for Students and Beginners
Webinar Q&A | Applied System Dynamics for Students and Beginners We had an insightful Webinar with the participation of Andries Botha and Nalini Pillay who guided us in the first steps to learning Systems Dynamics. You can watch the webinar recording and download...
Practitioner Profile: Birgit Kopainsky, University of Bergen (UiB), Norway
Practitioner Profile: Birgit Kopainsky, University of Bergen (UiB), Norway 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...
Webinar Q&A | Group Model Building Online
Webinar Q&A | Group Model Building Online In 2020, when COVID-19 hit, a group of researchers from the University of Bergen found themselves stuck and could not run a planned in-person Group Model Building Workshop. They thought outside of the box and used Miro, a...
Practitioner Profiles: Peter Lacey, Whole Systems Partnership
Practitioner Profiles: Peter Lacey, Whole Systems Partnership 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...
Moving Beyond the Threshold of System Dynamics: Thoughts for New Practitioners
I’ve heard students and colleagues say that learning system dynamics transformed their thinking–it gave them ways to understand complex problems in their field from a fresh perspective. “I can’t think any other way,” they’ll say....
Modeling for Implementation: an Illusion of Control?
Modeling for Implementation: an Illusion of Control? Every so often, I see someone in our field drawing attention to the fact that many client-based system dynamics modeling projects do not lead to effective implementation of their findings, and they wonder what can...
Webinar Q&A | Local Level COVID Models
Webinar Q&A | Local Level COVID Models We had an insightful Webinar with the participation of The COVID 19 Localisation Modelling Group. Kim Warren and Maurice Glucksman and the formidable youth Farrah Farnejad, Quinn Kennedy, Harshita Magroria, and Brahmani...
Models, Maps, and Levels of Evidence
Models, Maps, and Levels of Evidence Anyone who has attended a System Dynamics conference in recent years, or has read past posts in the System Dynamics Society blog, is surely aware of differences of opinion on the value of qualitative maps as opposed to quantified...
Modeling for Impact in the Era of Big Data
Modeling for Impact in the Era of Big Data On the occasion of the field’s 50th anniversary, in 2007, Jay Forrester spoke to us (SDR 23:359-370) about prospects for the field of System Dynamics—his view of the situation summarized by the phrase “aimless plateau”. He...