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...
Webinar Highlights & Recording: Digital Twin Business Models for Strategy and Operational Management
Webinar Highlights & Recording: Digital Twin Business Models for Strategy and Operational Management We had the opportunity to delve into the world of business model simulations with industry experts Kim Warren, founder of Strategy Dynamics, and Martin Lycko,...
Webinar Highlights & Recording: System Dynamics Modeling with R.
Webinar Highlights & Recording: System Dynamics Modeling with R. System Dynamics is a powerful approach to understanding complex systems in various fields, such as public health, ecology, and economics. Prof. Jim Duggan, an expert in applying System Dynamics and...
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 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 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...
The Role of Creativity in System Dynamics and Systems Thinking
The Role of Creativity in System Dynamics and Systems Thinking A thought-provoking discussion led by internationally renowned expert Dennis Sherwood, as we explore the concept of creativity in System Dynamics and Systems Thinking. Delve into questions such as what...
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 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 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...
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 and challenging field of supply chain management by providing a unique and interactive way to learn. Decades of students,...
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) 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...