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Business dynamics : systems thinking and modeling for a complex world

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sterman, John
Formato: Software Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Boston : Irwin/McGraw-Hill, ©2000.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Perspective and Process
  • Learning in and about Complex Systems
  • Learning Is a Feedback Process
  • Barriers to Learning
  • Requirements for Successful Learning in Complex Systems
  • System Dynamics in Action
  • Applications of System Dynamics
  • Automobile Leasing Strategy: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow
  • On Time and Under Budget: The Dynamics of Project Management
  • Playing the Maintenance Game
  • Summary: Principles for Successful Use of System Dynamics
  • The Modeling Process
  • The Purpose of Modeling: Managers as Organization Designers
  • The Client and the Modeler
  • Steps of the Modeling Process
  • Modeling Is Iterative
  • Overview of the Modeling Process
  • Structure and Behavior of Dynamic Systems
  • Fundamental Modes of Dynamic Behavior
  • Interactions of the Fundamental Modes
  • Other Modes of Behavior
  • Tools for Systems Thinking
  • Causal Loop Diagrams
  • Causal Diagram Notation
  • Guidelines for Causal Loop Diagrams
  • Process Point: Developing Causal Diagrams from Interview Data
  • Conceptualization Case Study: Managing Your Workload
  • Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and the Feedback Structure of Markets
  • Explaining Policy Resistance: Traffic Congestion
  • Stocks and Flows
  • Stocks, Flows, and Accumulation
  • Identifying Stocks and Flows
  • Mapping Stocks and Flows
  • Dynamics of Stocks and Flows
  • Relationship between Stocks and Flows
  • System Dynamics in Action: Global Warming
  • System Dynamics in Action: The War on Drugs
  • Closing the Loop: Dynamics of Simple Structures
  • First-Order Systems.