Bathtub dynamics: initial results of a systems thinking inventory

Promoting Systems Thinking Through Alignment of Culture and Process: Initial Results

Standardized processes are used to address three contemporary issues in engineering: increasing system complexity, increasing average age within the engineering community, and longer development cycles that result in fewer experiential learning opportunities for young engineers. Heidi Davidz (Davidz 2006), in her doctoral research identified enablers and barriers to systems thinking among engin...

System Dynamics, Systems Thinking, and Soft OR

System dynamics, systems thinking, and soft operations research (soft OR) all aspire to understanding and improvement of systems. In all, the first step interprets the real world into a description used in following stages. In system dynamics, description leads to equations of a model, simulation to understand dynamic behavior, evaluation of alternative policies, education and choice of a bette...

Charting Multidisciplinary Team External Dynamics Using a Systems Thinking Approach

System Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World

Today s problems often arise as unintended consequences of yesterday s solutions. Social systems often suffer from policy resistance, the tendency for well-intentioned interventions to be defeated by the response of the system to the intervention itself. The field of system dynamics, created at MIT in the 1950s by Jay Forrester, is designed to help us learn about the structure and dynamics of t...

A Systems Dynamics Model for Project Management systems of Project-Based Organization

It is obvious that the success of a project-based organization is dependent on its projects. A variety of tools such as the project excellence model, project management maturity models, the earned value method, have been developed in this regard, but there are still delays in projects because the projects have dynamic nature with non-linear relationships and feedback processes during the projec...