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Amarildo, My dissertation looked at the influence of scorecards (financial and balanced) and enterprise information systems (fragmented and integrated) on different attributes of mental models and on organizational performance. It is available on-line at (http://www.instituteforstrategicclarity.org/...

In his book "System Effects" (1997, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) Robert Jervis, professor of international politics at Columbia University, provides many rich examples from foreign affairs of how systems thinking would help decision makers understand the unintended consequenc...

System Dynamics in Austin As things tends to work, we have informally gathered eight system dynamics academics, practitioners, and consultants in the Austin, TX area, and will be having an early afternoon get-together on Saturday, April 4th. In the belief that there are others in the Austin area (or...

In wrestling with the issue of the value added to clients from causal loop diagrams (CLD) versus stock-flow (S-F) diagrams, I have come to the following ideas. Causal mapping enables free-form representation of ones mental model, keying on creative, self expression. Causal mapping is about capturing...