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Norman Marshall raises an interesting point in the scope of the practice of system dynamics. Thinking clearly and precisely in the domain of both quantitative and qualitative information about the real world along with mapping techniques for eliciting stock-and-flow and feedback loop structures, wha...

Ninth floor please! Well, system dynamics modeling is the art of constructing thorough, consistent, cogent stories narrating "how roads lead on to roads" (feedback loops), and cause a series of events (dynamic behavior), in order to reveal "what made all the difference". Sorry, i...

The discussion on the leverage points is expanding from guidelines for identifying them, to methods for conveying them to the client, and of course, to ways of classifying them according to their effectiveness on changing the systems behavior, clientss mental models etc. The multidimensional nature ...

Folks, It is very difficult to resist and not to say something about what Donella Meadows and others wrote on how to effect change or find leverage points as they are all intriguing. Donellas list includes processes that are familiar to almost any one who has been involved in rigorous modeling effor...