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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 the best signals out, even during the fall of 2016 and 2020. Data, and in particular big data, are always a treasure to help...
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 practitioners who demonstrate what’s new and developing in their fields with System Dynamics. This section of the WiSDom Blog,...
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 many to look back to discuss its merits, its message, and the impact it had or could have had. Once again, LtG (and its 20- and...
System Dynamics for Climate Change Mitigation
System Dynamics for Climate Change Mitigation We had an insightful Webinar with the participation of With Juliette Rooney-Varga, Carolyn McCarthy, Sibel Eker, and Steve Arquitt . Integrated System Dynamics models of economy and environment have long been used for...
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 interviews with experienced System Dynamics practitioners. We have a standard set of 10 questions and let practitioners take the...
Practitioner Profile: Matteo Pedercini, Millennium Institute
Practitioner Profile: Matteo Pedercini, Millennium Institute 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...
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 Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan. Andrew is an expert on climate change and energy issues, a prominent System Dynamics modeler, and a...
System Dynamics Biomedical Modeling
System Dynamics Biomedical Modeling In this Seminar, authors present their work published on the special issue of the System Dynamics Review on Biomedical Modeling. The special issue brings together new research that explores a fascinating array of biomedical...
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 remains unknown. Official counts of cases and deaths are known to underestimate the true magnitude of the pandemic, but how much...
Practitioner Profile: Etiënne Rouwette, Radboud University
Practitioner Profile: Etiënne Rouwette, Radboud University 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...
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 systems thinking in biomedical sciences? The human body is a system with strong regulatory mechanisms that maintain the steady state...
Practitioner Profile: Douglas McKelvie, Symmetric Scenarios
Practitioner Profile: Douglas McKelvie, Symmetric Scenarios 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...
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 and Slow”, which extended the work on cognitive biases he had started with his co-author Amos Tversky many years earlier....
Responding to The Exponential Demand for Systems Thinking
Responding to The Exponential Demand for Systems Thinking The “demand” for systems thinking has never been greater. Period. And it’s growing. Exponentially. Yet, our ability to meaningfully recognize and respond to that demand comes nowhere near closing such a...
Practitioner Profile: John Ansah, Duke NUS Medical School
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 direction they choose. They tell us about who they...
Webinar Q&A | The Effect of Institutional Quality on Economic Growth
Webinar Q&A | The Effect of Institutional Quality on Economic Growth We had an insightful Webinar with the participation of Aman Ullah and Ivan Taylor who presented us with a macroeconomic framework that identifies the structure of institutional quality in...
Practitioner Profile: Drew Jones, Climate Interactive
Practitioner Profile: Drew Jones, Climate Interactive 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...
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...