Cancer Prevention and Control with System Dynamics
April 17 at 11 am NY | 4 pm London | 11 pm Beijing | Time Converter
Cancer Prevention and Control with System Dynamics – Discussion of a Systematic Review
This webinar delves into the findings of a systematic review on the application of System Dynamics modeling in cancer prevention and control, as presented in the recently published research in the PLOS ONE journal. It aims to explore the scope, characteristics, and quality of studies utilizing System Dynamics, including simulation and diagramming techniques such as causal-loop diagramming, in the context of cancer-related research. The research assess the quality of these studies, their alignment with the cancer control continuum, and the synthesis of their characteristics and models.
Special attention is given to diverse topics addressed in these studies, including chemotherapy treatments, tobacco or e-cigarette use reduction interventions, and cancer risks from environmental contamination. This presentation will highlight the current state of System Dynamics in cancer research, and address the need for rigorous, transparent model development and testing practices.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understanding System Dynamics in Cancer Research: Gain insights into how System Dynamics modeling, including both simulation and diagramming approaches, is applied in cancer prevention and control.
- Assessment of Study Quality and Scope: Learn to assess the quality of System Dynamics studies in cancer research using adapted criteria, and understand their alignment with the cancer control continuum.
- Identifying Key Focus Areas and Interventions: Acquire knowledge about the key focus areas within these studies, such as treatment, prevention, and detection, and explore the types of interventions modeled.
- Improvement and Best Practices: Recognize the need for improved rigor and transparency in model development and testing in cancer research using System Dynamics, and discuss the development of supportive infrastructure and best practices for multidisciplinary research.
About the Presenters
Erin Kenzie is an Assistant Professor at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon and holds faculty roles at the Portland State University System Science Program and the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network. She received her PhD in Systems Science from PSU in 2021. Dr. Kenzie’s research spans system dynamics, implementation science, and public health. She has been involved in research applying System Dynamics to colorectal cancer screening, behavioral health system capacity, unhealthy alcohol use screening and treatment, rural Veteran access to care, health plan-clinic partnerships, behavioral health integration, traumatic brain injury recovery, and climate change mitigation behavior.
Wayne Wakeland is Professor Emeritus of Systems Science at Portland State University. He also served as the Systems Science Program Chair for many years. He earned a B.S. and a Master of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College (1973); and a Ph.D. in Systems Science at Portland State U. (1977). He developed and taught courses on computer simulation methods and more recently a course on system sustainability and organizational resilience. His research focused on the use of computational models for studying a variety of topics, including complications during human pregnancy, recovery from concussion, and policies to reduce opioid drug diversion, abuse, and overdose deaths. Other topics included environmental/ecological sustainability and elevated intracranial pressure due to traumatic brain injusy. He has been active in the System Dynamics Society for many years and helps lead its Health Policy Special Interest Group.
Target Audience
This webinar is ideal for healthcare professionals, policy makers, researchers, academicians, and particularly students in fields like public health, oncology, systems engineering, and health policy. It offers insights into the application of System Dynamics in cancer prevention and control, making it a valuable learning opportunity for anyone interested in innovative research methodologies and their implications in healthcare.
Critical Resource-Development With Dynamic Business Models
October 16 at 11 am NY | 4 pm London | 11 pm Beijing | Time Converter
This seminar is part of our special series System Dynamics for Business Innovation with Kim Warren. A series of nine webinars offering a deep dive into the application of System dynamics in Business. The sessions will explore strategic modeling techniques and their transformative impact across different business domains, from strategic management to IT systems planning and environmental impact. This series will reveal the potential of System Dynamics as a powerful tool for business innovation and complex decision-making.
Session 9
Critical Resource-Development With Dynamic Business Models
Overview
CEOs and other leaders understand the critical role that certain resources play in driving business development and performance – staff and their skills, strong products and services, valuable and loyal customers. They also know that developing and sustaining these factors is tough! This session explores how dynamic business models (DBMs) can capture resource pipelines in marketing, staffing, product development, and other staged business processes, and how DBMs can be used to plan, analyze, and manage these processes, for stronger business development and performance.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the stages through which business resources develop.
- See how DBMs quantify and capture the dynamics of pipelines for customers, staff and other resources.
- Gain insights into how resource-development modeling can improve business development and performance.
Target Audience:
- Marketing, HR, and product-development executives and analysts.
- Business analysts, consultants and strategists wanting stronger models for business development and performance.
- Academics and students interested in business strategy development and implementation.
This webinar aims to equip attendees with the knowledge to utilize dynamic business models for effective planning and management of crucial business development activities.
About the Presenter
Kim Warren is an accomplished strategist with a wealth of experience in the business world. He spent 10 years in senior strategy roles, including as Retail Strategy Director at Whitbread PLC. Warren then transitioned to academia, teaching Strategic Management at London Business School for two decades. During his tenure, he developed a keen interest in System Dynamics, finding traditional strategy tools insufficient for modern business challenges. This led him to embrace and adapt System Dynamics, creating the Strategy Dynamics method. Warren’s method focuses on designing and managing business systems dynamically to adapt to changing markets and internal business conditions. He has authored influential books on the subject, including “Competitive Strategy Dynamics” and “Strategic Management Dynamics,” and has been recognized with the prestigious Jay Wright Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society, where he also served as president in 2013. Warren, along with his partner Christina Spencer, has developed a range of learning materials and courses to disseminate the Strategy Dynamics method, utilizing the Silico online modeling app to support this approach.
For more detailed information, you can visit his website here
Dynamic Business Models in Systems Engineering
September 25 at 11 am NY | 4 pm London | 11 pm Beijing | Time Converter
This seminar is part of our special series System Dynamics for Business Innovation with Kim Warren. A series of nine webinars offering a deep dive into the application of System dynamics in Business. Throughout the sessions, we’ll explore strategic modeling techniques and their transformative impact across different business domains, from strategic management to IT systems planning and sustainable practices. This series aims to reveal the potential of System Dynamics as a powerful tool for business innovation and complex decision-making.
Session 8
Dynamic Business Models in Systems Engineering
Overview
Systems Engineering (SE) professionals develop, test and guide implementation of solutions to many business challenges, and have a strong body-of-knowledge for that work. The seminar will explore how dynamic business models can add to that capability and thus enhance its impact. It will focus on utilizing DBMs for designing, analyzing, and managing business systems, ensuring they align with business objectives and adapt to changing environments.
Learning Outcomes
- Learn how DBMs can support systems engineering initiatives.
- Understand the differences – and relationships – between common SE methods and quantified DBMS.
- Gain insights into managing business projects dynamically to improve business development and performance.
Target Audience:
- Systems engineers and project managers wishing to extend their capabilities and contribution.
- Business analysts, consultants and strategists interested in improving systems engineering efforts.
- Academics and students in business and systems engineering.
This session is designed for professionals and academics in systems engineering and business, aiming to explore the intersection of these fields through dynamic business models.
Certificate of Attendance
Attendees who participate in at least 6 out of the 9 webinars in the series will be eligible to receive a certificate titled “Introduction to Dynamic Business Models.” This is an opportunity to gain recognition of your learning in this innovative field. For those who cannot attend live sessions, recordings will be available, allowing you to review the material and complete the series at your convenience
About the Presenter
Kim Warren is an accomplished strategist with a wealth of experience in the business world. He spent 10 years in senior strategy roles, including as Retail Strategy Director at Whitbread PLC. Warren then transitioned to academia, teaching Strategic Management at London Business School for two decades. During his tenure, he developed a keen interest in System Dynamics, finding traditional strategy tools insufficient for modern business challenges. This led him to embrace and adapt System Dynamics, creating the Strategy Dynamics method. Warren’s method focuses on designing and managing business systems dynamically to adapt to changing markets and internal business conditions. He has authored influential books on the subject, including “Competitive Strategy Dynamics” and “Strategic Management Dynamics,” and has been recognized with the prestigious Jay Wright Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society, where he also served as president in 2013. Warren, along with his partner Christina Spencer, has developed a range of learning materials and courses to disseminate the Strategy Dynamics method, utilizing the Silico online modeling app to support this approach.
For more detailed information, you can visit his website here.
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Strategic HR Planning with Dynamic Business Models
September 4 at 11 am NY | 4 pm London | 11 pm Beijing | Time Converter
This seminar is part of our special series System Dynamics for Business Innovation with Kim Warren. A series of nine webinars offering a deep dive into the application of System dynamics in Business. Throughout the sessions, we’ll explore strategic modeling techniques and their transformative impact across different business domains, from strategic management to IT systems planning and sustainable practices. This series aims to reveal the potential of System Dynamics as a powerful tool for business innovation and complex decision-making.
Session 7
Strategic Human Resources Planning with Dynamic Business Models
Companies often claim that staff are “their most important asset”, so need rigorous and powerful means to plan and manage the development of that asset. This session explores some core dynamic models for the staffing system, and shows how DBMs can enhance workforce planning, talent management, and the optimization of human capital.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the main model structures that capture how staff numbers, skills and experience develop and can be planned.
- See how those people-systems feature in wider DBMs of business development and performance.
- Learn techniques for data-driven workforce management and talent optimization.
- Gain insights into enhancing HR decision-making through dynamic modeling.
Target Audience:
- HR professionals and talent managers.
- Business analysts, consultants, strategists and executives.
- Professionals interested in people analytics and data-driven HR.
- Academics and students in HR and business management fields.
This webinar aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role of dynamic business models in human resource strategies and business performance.
About the Presenter
Kim Warren is an accomplished strategist with a wealth of experience in the business world. He spent 10 years in senior strategy roles, including as Retail Strategy Director at Whitbread PLC. Warren then transitioned to academia, teaching Strategic Management at London Business School for two decades. During his tenure, he developed a keen interest in System Dynamics, finding traditional strategy tools insufficient for modern business challenges. This led him to embrace and adapt System Dynamics, creating the Strategy Dynamics method. Warren’s method focuses on designing and managing business systems dynamically to adapt to changing markets and internal business conditions. He has authored influential books on the subject, including “Competitive Strategy Dynamics” and “Strategic Management Dynamics,” and has been recognized with the prestigious Jay Wright Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society, where he also served as president in 2013. Warren, along with his partner Christina Spencer, has developed a range of learning materials and courses to disseminate the Strategy Dynamics method, utilizing the Silico online modeling app to support this approach.
For more detailed information, you can visit his website here.
Dynamic Business Models for Integrated Reporting of Environmental and Social impacts
June 18 at 11 am NY | 4 pm London | 11 pm Beijing | Time Converter
This seminar is part of our special series System Dynamics for Business Innovation with Kim Warren. A series of nine webinars offering a deep dive into the application of System dynamics in Business. Throughout the sessions, we’ll explore strategic modeling techniques and their transformative impact across different business domains, from strategic management to IT systems planning and sustainable practices. This series aims to reveal the potential of System Dynamics as a powerful tool for business innovation and complex decision-making.
Session 6
Dynamic Business Models for Integrated Reporting of Environmental and Social Impacts
Companies are under ever-increasing pressure to both manage and report on their wider environmental and social impact, through ‘Integrated Reporting’, but the tools for this need are limited. This webinar will demonstrate how dynamic business models (DBMs) can provide a more comprehensive view of a company’s impact, aligning sustainability efforts with business strategies.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the essential requirements of Integrated Reporting of organizations’ environmental and social impact reporting.
- Understand how a dynamic business model can be extended to capture, rigorously, those wider impacts.
- See how such models help develop strategies for managing environmental and social impacts in business operations.
Target Audience:
- Corporate leaders and sustainability officers.
- Professionals in environmental and social governance (ESG) and CSR.
- Business analysts, consultants and strategists interested in sustainable practices.
- Academics and students in environmental studies and business management.
This session is aimed at those looking to improve their approach to sustainability and impact reporting through the application of dynamic business modeling techniques.
About the Presenter
Kim Warren is an accomplished strategist with a wealth of experience in the business world. He spent 10 years in senior strategy roles, including as Retail Strategy Director at Whitbread PLC. Warren then transitioned to academia, teaching Strategic Management at London Business School for two decades. During his tenure, he developed a keen interest in System Dynamics, finding traditional strategy tools insufficient for modern business challenges. This led him to embrace and adapt System Dynamics, creating the Strategy Dynamics method. Warren’s method focuses on designing and managing business systems dynamically to adapt to changing markets and internal business conditions. He has authored influential books on the subject, including “Competitive Strategy Dynamics” and “Strategic Management Dynamics,” and has been recognized with the prestigious Jay Wright Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society, where he also served as president in 2013. Warren, along with his partner Christina Spencer, has developed a range of learning materials and courses to disseminate the Strategy Dynamics method, utilizing the Silico online modeling app to support this approach.
For more detailed information, you can visit his website here.
Harnessing Intangible Business Factors with Dynamic Business Models
May 22 at 11 am NY | 4 pm London | 11 pm Beijing | Time Converter
This seminar is part of our special series System Dynamics for Business Innovation with Kim Warren. A series of nine webinars offering a deep dive into the application of System dynamics in Business. The sessions will explore strategic modeling techniques and their transformative impact across different business domains, from strategic management to IT systems planning and environmental impact. This series will reveal the potential of System Dynamics as a powerful tool for business innovation and complex decision-making.
Session 4
Harnessing Intangible Business Factors with Dynamic Business Models
This webinar explores how intangible or ‘soft’ assets like reputation, skills, data and quality affect – and are affected by – the development of a business system and its performance. Participants will learn how dynamic business models (DBMs) can reliably specify, quantify and incorporate these often-overlooked elements into business-system models of any scope.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the common types of intangible factors, and their role in business systems.
- Learn how intangibles can be specified, quantified and simulated as part of a DBM.
- See how strategies to leverage intangible assets for business growth and sustainability can be developed.
Target Audience:
- Business analysts, consultants, strategists and decision-makers.
- Professionals in marketing, HR, customer service, and product development.
- Organizational development specialists.
- Academics and students in business and management studies.
This webinar is designed for those seeking to deepen their understanding and practical application of DBMs in managing and leveraging intangible business factors.
Certificate of Attendance
Attendees who participate in at least 6 out of the 9 webinars in the series will be eligible to receive a certificate titled “Introduction to Dynamic Business Models.” This is an opportunity to gain recognition of your learning in this innovative field. For those who cannot attend live sessions, recordings will be available, allowing you to review the material and complete the series at your convenience
About the Presenter
Kim Warren is an accomplished strategist with a wealth of experience in the business world. He spent 10 years in senior strategy roles, including as Retail Strategy Director at Whitbread PLC. Warren then transitioned to academia, teaching Strategic Management at London Business School for two decades. During his tenure, he developed a keen interest in System Dynamics, finding traditional strategy tools insufficient for modern business challenges. This led him to embrace and adapt System Dynamics, creating the Strategy Dynamics method. Warren’s method focuses on designing and managing business systems dynamically to adapt to changing markets and internal business conditions. He has authored influential books on the subject, including “Competitive Strategy Dynamics” and “Strategic Management Dynamics,” and has been recognized with the prestigious Jay Wright Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society, where he also served as president in 2013. Warren, along with his partner Christina Spencer, has developed a range of learning materials and courses to disseminate the Strategy Dynamics method, utilizing the Silico online modeling app to support this approach.
For more detailed information, you can visit his website here.
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Leveraging Dynamic Business Models for Enterprise Architecture
April 18 at 11 am NY | 4 pm London | 11 pm Beijing | Time Converter
This seminar is part of our special series System Dynamics for Business Innovation with Kim Warren. A series of nine webinars offering a deep dive into the application of System dynamics in Business. The sessions will explore strategic modeling techniques and their transformative impact across different business domains, from strategic management to IT systems planning and environmental impact. This series will reveal the potential of System Dynamics as a powerful tool for business innovation and complex decision-making.
Session 4
Leveraging Dynamic Business Models for Enterprise Architecture
Creating “Enterprise Architectures” (EAs) has long been a solid basis for developing organizations’ IT strategies and plans. But qualitative EAs can be more reliable and powerful if supported by quantitative dynamic business models (DBMs). We will explore how DBMs can enhance the alignment of IT systems with business goals, improve resource allocation, and facilitate effective change management in the technological landscape of an organization.
Learning Outcomes
- For newcomers to Enterprise Architectures, understand the essentials of how their process models support orgnizations’ IT strategies and plans.
- Understand the differences – and strong connections – between EAs’ process models and quantified DBMs.
- See how DBMs’ inherent validation can make building EAs faster and more reliable, and enhance implementation of IT systems plans.
Target Audience
- IT professionals and systems architects.
- Business analysts and consultants concerned with IT’s support for strategy and performance.
- Managers overseeing IT infrastructure and development.
- Students and academics in business fields.
This webinar is ideal for those looking to bridge the gap between business strategy and IT system architecture, leveraging dynamic modeling for alignment and efficiency.
Certificate of Attendance
Attendees who participate in at least 6 out of the 9 webinars in the series will be eligible to receive a certificate titled “Introduction to Dynamic Business Models.” This is an opportunity to gain recognition of your learning in this innovative field. For those who cannot attend live sessions, recordings will be available, allowing you to review the material and complete the series at your convenience
About the Presenter
Kim Warren is an accomplished strategist with a wealth of experience in the business world. He spent 10 years in senior strategy roles, including as Retail Strategy Director at Whitbread PLC. Warren then transitioned to academia, teaching Strategic Management at London Business School for two decades. During his tenure, he developed a keen interest in System Dynamics, finding traditional strategy tools insufficient for modern business challenges. This led him to embrace and adapt System Dynamics, creating the Strategy Dynamics method. Warren’s method focuses on designing and managing business systems dynamically to adapt to changing markets and internal business conditions. He has authored influential books on the subject, including “Competitive Strategy Dynamics” and “Strategic Management Dynamics,” and has been recognized with the prestigious Jay Wright Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society, where he also served as president in 2013. Warren, along with his partner Christina Spencer, has developed a range of learning materials and courses to disseminate the Strategy Dynamics method, utilizing the Silico online modeling app to support this approach.
For more detailed information, you can visit his website here.
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Dynamic Business Models for Dealing with Competition
March 20 at 11 am NY | 3 pm London | 11 pm Beijing | Time Converter
This seminar is part of our special series System Dynamics for Business Innovation with Kim Warren. A series of nine webinars offering a deep dive into the application of System dynamics in Business. The sessions will explore strategic modeling techniques and their transformative impact across different business domains, from strategic management to IT systems planning and environmental impact. This series will reveal the potential of System Dynamics as a powerful tool for business innovation and complex decision-making.
Session 3
Dynamic Business Models for Dealing with Competition
Overview
This session will introduce participants to the use of dynamic business models (DBMs) for understanding and dealing with competitive challenges and opportunities. The session will explain exactly how competition plays out over time, through three standard mechanisms – mechanisms that are easily explored with quantified diagramming and modeled in detail with digital-twin business models.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand, with a case example, the three standard mechanisms driving the outcomes of competitive interactions.
- Appreciate how dynamic business models enable competitive strategies to be explored, under a range of scenarios.
- Understand the differences in how competition works in different markets and at different stages of a market’s life.
Target Audience
- Business professionals seeking powerful new knowledge in competitive strategy.
- Managers and executives looking to understand and take control of both their general competitive strategy and of specific competitive initiatives.
- Students and academics interested in business strategy and competitive analysis.
This webinar is designed to provide an introduction to dynamic business modeling in the context of business competition, suitable for those beginning to explore these concepts.
Certificate of Attendance
Attendees who participate in at least 6 out of the 9 webinars in the series will be eligible to receive a certificate titled “Introduction to Dynamic Business Models.” This is an opportunity to gain recognition of your learning in this innovative field. For those who cannot attend live sessions, recordings will be available, allowing you to review the material and complete the series at your convenience
About the Presenter
Kim Warren is an accomplished strategist with a wealth of experience in the business world. He spent 10 years in senior strategy roles, including as Retail Strategy Director at Whitbread PLC. Warren then transitioned to academia, teaching Strategic Management at London Business School for two decades. During his tenure, he developed a keen interest in System Dynamics, finding traditional strategy tools insufficient for modern business challenges. This led him to embrace and adapt System Dynamics, creating the Strategy Dynamics method. Warren’s method focuses on designing and managing business systems dynamically to adapt to changing markets and internal business conditions. He has authored influential books on the subject, including “Competitive Strategy Dynamics” and “Strategic Management Dynamics,” and has been recognized with the prestigious Jay Wright Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society, where he also served as president in 2013. Warren, along with his partner Christina Spencer, has developed a range of learning materials and courses to disseminate the Strategy Dynamics method, utilizing the Silico online modeling app to support this approach.
For more detailed information, you can visit his website here.
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Dynamic Business Models for Strategic Management Accounting
Feb, 28 at 11 am NY | 4 pm London | 12 am Beijing | Time Converter
This seminar is part of our special series System Dynamics for Business Innovation with Kim Warren. A series of nine webinars offering a deep dive into the application of System dynamics in Business. The sessions will explore strategic modeling techniques and their transformative impact across different business domains, from strategic management to IT systems planning and environmental impact. This series will reveal the potential of System Dynamics as a powerful tool for business innovation and complex decision-making.
Session 2
Dynamic Business Models for Strategic Management Accounting
Overview
This session explains the aims of strategic management accounting (SMA) – giving senior leaders insight about how a business develops and performs, beyond just the financials – and the challenges faced by those trying to do so. This seminar will explain that strategic management covers many more responsibilities than simply building the business plan. It will show that Dynamic Business Models can very largely fulfill those needs, in an efficient, reliable and transparent manner. DBMs provide exactly the joined-up view of a business and financials that leaders say they want. (The session is supported by two substantial practitioner articles)
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the aims of strategic management accounting.
- See how DBMs transform the contribution that SMA can offer.
- Learn to integrate dynamic modeling of a business system’s behaviour with the financial outcomes it generates.
Target Audience
- Accountants seeking to upgrade their contribution to organizations’ strategic performance.
- Business strategists and consultants needing to demonstrate both strong business development and financial performance.
- Academic professionals and students in business, accounting, and finance.
- Business professionals wanting to integrate their strategic management efforts and financial outcomes.
This session is designed to provide practical skills and theoretical knowledge, making it valuable for professionals aiming to leverage dynamic modeling in strategic management accounting.
Certificate of Attendance
Attendees who participate in at least 6 out of the 9 webinars in the series will be eligible to receive a certificate titled “Introduction to Dynamic Business Models.” This is an opportunity to gain recognition of your learning in this innovative field. For those who cannot attend live sessions, recordings will be available, allowing you to review the material and complete the series at your convenience
About the Presenter
Kim Warren is an accomplished strategist with a wealth of experience in the business world. He spent 10 years in senior strategy roles, including as Retail Strategy Director at Whitbread PLC. Warren then transitioned to academia, teaching Strategic Management at London Business School for two decades. During his tenure, he developed a keen interest in System Dynamics, finding traditional strategy tools insufficient for modern business challenges. This led him to embrace and adapt System Dynamics, creating the Strategy Dynamics method. Warren’s method focuses on designing and managing business systems dynamically to adapt to changing markets and internal business conditions. He has authored influential books on the subject, including “Competitive Strategy Dynamics” and “Strategic Management Dynamics,” and has been recognized with the prestigious Jay Wright Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society, where he also served as president in 2013. Warren, along with his partner Christina Spencer, has developed a range of learning materials and courses to disseminate the Strategy Dynamics method, utilizing the Silico online modeling app to support this approach.
For more detailed information, you can visit his website here.
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How Did En-ROADS Get 755,000 users? Lessons on Modeling, Interface Design, and Facilitation
May, 8 at 11 am NY | 4 pm London | 11 pm Beijing | Time Converter
How Did En-ROADS Get 755,000 Users? Lessons on Modeling, Interface Design, and Facilitation
In this participatory webinar, Drew Jones of Climate Interactive will share insights on how to create a System Dynamics model and online simulator that will succeed at improving mental models and system performance at scale. The teams at Climate Interactive, MIT Sloan, and Ventana Systems designed its System Dynamics models C-ROADS and En-ROADS with the goal of improving the understanding of climate policy choices amongst decision-makers around the world, leading to deliberate strategies in three major areas: 1) modeling, 2) interface/UX design, and 3) facilitation, workshop design, game creation, training, and user support. This webinar will cover the design decisions made over the ~30 years of the project, generalizing the more universal insights for any system dynamics project.
About the Presenter
Andrew (Drew) Jones is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive. An expert on international climate and energy issues, his quotes and data stories appear in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and other media. Jones and his team at CI and MIT Sloan developed the climate simulations used by John Kerry and others to secure the 2014 bi-lateral U.S.-China deal that set up the Paris Agreement, as well as currently in the White House and Congress. Trained in System Dynamics modeling at Dartmouth College and MIT, Jones has worked at Rocky Mountain Institute and was a protégé of Dana Meadows. Jones co-accepted the System Dynamics Society’s award for the best real-world application of modeling. He won Dartmouth College’s Ray W. Smith award for the most significant contribution to the status of the College.
Special Guests
John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of MIT’s System Dynamics Group. He is the author of many scholarly and popular articles on the challenges and opportunities facing organizations today, including the book Modeling for Organizational Learning, and the award-winning textbook Business Dynamics. Prof. Sterman’s research centers on improving decision making in complex systems, focusing on environmental sustainability, climate change, alternative fuel vehicles and process improvement in organizations. He pioneered the development of “management flight simulators” of corporate and economic systems, many of which, including the C-ROADS interactive climate policy simulation he helped developed, are used around the world by governments, businesses, universities and the public. Among his honors, Sterman is the recipient of an honorary doctorate, has twice been awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize for the best published work in system dynamics, received the best application award from the System Dynamics Society, was named one of MIT Sloan’s “Outstanding Faculty” by the BusinessWeek Guide to the Best Business Schools, and has received seven awards for teaching excellence from the students at MIT.
Florian Kapmeier is Professor of Strategy at ESB Business School at Reutlingen University, Germany. He received his doctorate from the University of Stuttgart on “Interorganizational Learning in Learning Alliances”. He has strengthened his academic profile with research visits at MIT Sloan School of Management (Cambridge, USA), McGill University (Montréal, Canada), University of Lugano (Switzerland), and Emlyon Business School (Lyon, France). For his research and teaching activities, he links the System Dynamics methodology with empirical research on theory development and testing, focusing on organizational aspects of the understanding of complexity, increasingly addressing environmental sustainability issues. He works closely with the Climate Interactive to raise awareness of the consequences of climate change, using the suite of Climate Interactive’s simulation models. Florian has collaborated closely with Climate Interactive to develop the En-ROADS Climate Workshop, the Climate Action Simulation Game, and resources for the World Climate Simulation. In addition, he has helped translate both event materials and website resources for the World Climate Simulation. Florian has facilitated numerous En-ROADS and World Climate events with groups between 12-60+ people since 2014, from high-school and university students to corporate and political policy makers.