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...
Dancing with Systems: Moves for Turbulent Times
Dancing with Systems: Moves for Turbulent Times Seminar recording Learn more about the Seminar Series. Watch the recording below Download Presentation Recent Posts Upcoming Events Recent Business cases Join...
Systems Thinking for Pre-College Education
Systems Thinking for Pre-College Education Pre-College SIG Seminar Series consists of periodic online meetings on K-12 education to the Systems Thinking and System Dynamics communities. These virtual activities cover a wide range of topics on K-12 education from many...
Metacognition in Stock-flow Failure
Metacognition in Stock-flow Failure Considering the nature of problems in dynamic systems, the systems thinking literature introduces various failures and oversimplified strategies while solving perceived problems of a system and possible reasons for failures. It is...
Call for Presenters: Society Seminar Series
Call for Presenters: Society Seminar Series 2022 is just around the corner and we’re scheduling Seminars for the first semester of the year. We’ve been experimenting with different settings such as presentations, panels, hands-on webinars, and roundtables....
Roundtable: Getting System Dynamics Into Universities Programs
Roundtable: Getting System Dynamics Into Universities Programs During the University roundtable, we explored the following question with input from all of the participants: what are the issues, opportunities, and obstacles to increasing System Dynamics penetration in...
Student Chapter News: Interview with Meagan Keenan
Student Chapter News: Interview with Meagan Keenan Member Interview: Megan Keenan Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? I am a public health researcher and System Dynamics consultant. I currently specialize in community-based participatory approaches...
Call for Designs: New Society Logo
Call for Designs: New Society Logo Our current logo was designed in 1985 by George Richardson and Jack Pugh. Since then, the Society has been going through a great transformation. In the last two years, we have been on a quest to unify our efforts globally and bring...
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 world, with a joint production of 74% of the world’s total. Rafsanjan, a semi-arid region in Iran, has long been famous for its...
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 Process” with Leonard (Len) Malczynski Watch the recording below to:• Build a small quantitative System Dynamics model• Use Studio by...
Can You Fix the American Health Care System? ReThink Health Dynamics
Can You Fix the American Health Care System? ReThink Health Dynamics Experience first hand the ReThink Health Dynamics Model used by Dartmouth, Brown, MIT, Atlanta, San Diego, Cincinnati, and many other universities and communities throughout the United States....
ISDC 2021 Highlights: Food “Wickedness”
The International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) convenes practitioners who demonstrate what’s new and developing in their fields with System Dynamics. This section of the WiSDom Blog, “Conference Highlights,” asks system dynamicists to spotlight key presentations...
ISDC 2021 Highlights: Tackling Structural Racism with Modeling
The International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) convenes practitioners who demonstrate what’s new and developing in their fields with System Dynamics. This section of the WiSDom Blog, “Conference Highlights,” asks system dynamicists to spotlight key presentations...
Housing Dynamics
Housing Dynamics We had an insightful conversation with David Stroh, Martijn Eskinasi, and Kaveh Dianati at our latest seminar. We learned about how using causal loop diagrams based on simple archetypes, illuminate interdependencies across housing availability, wealth...
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 System Dynamics. This section of the WiSDom Blog, “Conference Highlights,” asks system dynamicists to spotlight key presentations...
ISDC 2021 Highlights: Agricultural and food modelers produce a crop of conference contributions
The International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) convenes practitioners who demonstrate what’s new and developing in their fields with System Dynamics. This section of the WiSDom Blog, “Conference Highlights,” asks system dynamicists to spotlight key presentations...