What is System Dynamics?
What is System Dynamics? - From the Jay Forrester seminar series at MIT.
What is System Dynamics? - Overview
Introduction of Seminar Participants
1. Introduction
Pre Survey
2. Definition and Scope
(Quiz) Definition and Scope
3. Foundational Concepts
(Quiz) Foundational Concepts
4. System Goals and Soft Variables
(Discuss) System Goals and Soft Variables
5. Introduction to System Behavior and Structure
6. Scientific Hypothesis, Experimentation and Academia
7. Questions about the Origin and History of SD
8. Origin of System Dynamics from Physical Systems
9. 1956 Onwards: How Foundational Concepts Originated
10. Introduction of Soft Variables and Urban Dynamics
(Quiz) Introduction of Soft Variables and Urban Dynamics
11. SD as an Independent Academic Discipline
12. SD and the Growing Computing Industry
13. Changing People's Mental Models
(Quiz) Changing People's Mental Models
More on Changing People's Mental Models
(Discuss) Where do you plan to apply System Dynamics?
Post Survey
Suggested Reading-Teaching SD
Suggested Reading-McKinsey Interview
Suggested Reading-Beginning SD
Suggested Reading-Understanding SD
Suggested Reading-Jay W Forrester Biography
Other Suggested Reading