advanced (SD extension)
Once you've got the core System Dynamics skills down, the next question is which specific business issue you need extra firepower for — better-quality growth, competitive strategy, decision-making, intangibles, or organisational capability.
These six extension classes, delivered by Kim Warren through Strategy Dynamics, each add a specific framework or model to tackle a common business issue, or to enrich the models you built in the core course. Take all six as a bundle, or choose individually.
The six classes cover:
- Attributes — modelling the quality, not just the quantity, of your resources, since pursuing poor-quality growth can genuinely damage a business
- Resource pipelines — modelling how customers, staff, products, and assets move through stages, from first contact to full performance
- Competition — modelling the three standard structures that capture every competitive case: winning new customers, stealing rivals' customers, and splitting shared customers
- Policies and decisions — modelling and testing the decision-rules you actually use, and learning to spot when a policy is quietly working against you
- Intangibles — modelling how "soft" factors like reputation, morale, and data quality genuinely improve or worsen, and how they affect wider performance
- Capabilities and learning — modelling where to invest in skills, information, and procedures for the biggest improvement in future performance
£350 each pre-recorded, or £1,950 for all six as a bundle. Trainer: Kim Warren.