John D Sterman

This book describes the state of the art of social-system modeling, especially at the level of national planning. In an unusually clear and understandable language, it approaches the controversial and often confused debate in the use of computer models in social decision making from an entirely new ...

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The field of system dynamics was created in 1956 under the leadership of MIT Professor Jay W. Forrester to evaluate how alternative policies affect growth, stability, fluctuation, and changing behavior in corporations, cities, and countries. Forrester founded the System Dynamics Program in the Alfre...

Organizational Learning at Work Embracing the Challenges of the New WorkplaceAn anthology of The Systems Thinker ArticlesThe practical wisdom evident in this volume is a powerful reminder that the success of an organization's journey is determined as much by the way pivotal obstacles are traversed a...

Pilots get practice on flight simulators before they take on the responsibility of lives. Business managers are just sent out to manage - no feedback; no practice. This book allows your to predict the outcome of current and future situations on the whole system by testing different scenarios.

The economic crisis of the 1980s has revived interest in the economic long wave or Kondratiev cycle. Since 1975 theS ystem Dynamics National Model has been the vehicle for the development of a dynamic, endogenous, integrated theory of the economic long wave. This paper describes the integrated theor...

CD INCLUDED. PAPERBACK EDITION. This System Dynamics book contains a description of the concepts of this methodology and a group of 24 practical exercises in the areas of management, environment, physics, and social systems. The content of the book is specially designed for beginners in System Dynam...