Publications and Research Project Information

Executive Education, Workshops and Courses:

• Business Dynamics 5 day course
• System Dynamics 2 day course
• System Dynamics for Business Policy

Publications:

• Business Dynamics- New system dynamics text book with CD-ROM models and simulation software
• Publications List

• Learning from Evidence in a Complex World
• All Models are Wrong: Reflections on Becoming a Systems Scientist
• Desert Island Dynamics: An Annotated Survey of the Essential System Dynamics Literature
• Expert Knowledge Elicitation to Improve Mental and Formal Models
• Dynamic Modeling of Product Development Processes
• Path Dependence, Competition, and Succession in the Dynamics of Scientific Revolution
• System Dynamics Modeling for Project Management
• Teaching Takes Off...Flight Simulators for Management Education
• Getting Quality the Old Fashioned Way: Self Confirming Attributions in the Dynamics of Process Improvement
• Overcoming the Improvement Paradox
• A Skeptic's Guide to Computer Models
• Bathtub Dynamics: Initial Results of a Systems Thinking Inventory
• Cutting Corners and Working Overtime: Quality Erosion in the Service Industry
• Capability Traps and Self-Confirming Attribution Errors in the Dynamics of Process Improvement
• Cloudy Skies: Assessing Public Understanding of Global Warming
• Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement
• Limits to growth in the New Economy: Exploring the 'Get Big Fast' Strategy in e-commerce
• Overcoming the 90% Syndrome: Iteration Management in Concurrent Development Projects
• The Liar's Club: Concealing Rework in Concurrent Development
• Unanticipated Side Effects of Successful Quality Programs: Exploring a Paradox of Organizational Improvement
• Understanding Public Complacency About Climate Change: Adults' mental models of climate change violate conservation of matter
• Transition Challenges for Alternative Fuel Vehicle and Transportation Systems
• Getting Big Too Fast:  Strategic Dynamics with Increasing Returns and Bounded Rationality

Working papers:

• Feedback Complexity, Bounded Rationality, and Market Dynamics
• Explaining Capacity Overshoot and Price War: Misperceptions of Feedback in Competitive Growth Markets
• Heterogeneity and Network Structure in the Dynamics of Diffusion: Comparing Agent-Based and Differential Equation Models
• Order Stability in Supply Chains: Coordination Risk and the Role of Coordination Stock
• Why Don't Well-Educated Adults Understand Accumulation? A Challenge to Researchers, Educators, and Citizens

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Simulator
• Time Delay Simulator
• People Express MFS
• B & B Enterprises ("Boom and Bust" MFS)
• F & B Enterprises ("Food and Brands" MFS)
• The Beer Game
• Simple Beer Distribution Game Simulator

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