Why use System Dynamics (SD)?

There are several reasons why you might find practicing System Dynamics (SD) beneficial: SD provides methods and tools to enable better decision-making based on understanding the relationships between elements in complex systems. It has been used in areas like climate change, economics, governance, and healthcare. SD reveals system behaviours

What is System Dynamics?

System Dynamics provides an approach for modelling complex systems over time, by visualising their dynamic interrelationships to reveal feedback loops and non-linear effects. SD helps to identify how these relationships influence each other over time.

SD has been extensively applied to complex, multi-agency situations, including climate change, economic restructuring, governance enhancement, and national healthcare programs, providing valuable insights and solutions for these critical issues.

SD intro
available on LMS
System Dynamics

introduction (SD1 - 1d)

£200 (pre-recorded) Peter Lacey
System Dynamics (SD) is the use of working, quantified simulation models that replicate the causal structure and time-behaviour of the organisation, function or issue of concern. Effectively a “digital twin” of that enterprise or issue, an SD model makes explicit why past performance has followed the path that it has, projects likely future performance, and enables testing of alternative scenarios
SD intro
System Dynamics

introduction (SD1 - 1d)

System Dynamics (SD) is the use of working, quantified simulation models that replicate the causal structure and time-behaviour of the organisation, function or issue of concern. Effectively a “digital twin” of that enterprise or issue, an SD model makes explicit why past performance has followed the path that it has, projects likely future performance, and enables testing of alternative scenarios...
available on LMS
Course is online
£200 (pre-recorded)
Organiser(s)
SCiO
£200 (pre-recorded)

The introductory course is available in a pre-recorded form at £200 per nominal day.

For groups, this can also be delivered as a webinar at £500 per day per trainee

For organisations all courses can also be delivered face-to-face with terms negotiable.

The core and advanced courses are delivered and priced differently - click on them for details ->

SD core
available on LMS
System Dynamics

core (SD essentials)

£350 (pre-recorded) Kim Warren
This is the ‘Essentials Plan’ for the ‘Dynamic Business Modelling Core Course’ offered by Kim Warren through Strategy Dynamics and basically comprises the core modules he offers as part of the SCiO Apprenticeship bundle. Follow the link from the enquire button and scroll down to select The Essentials bundle . Class 1: Specifying your desired performance outcomes: Creating time-charts of past
SD core
System Dynamics

core (SD essentials)

This is the ‘Essentials Plan’ for the ‘Dynamic Business Modelling Core Course’ offered by Kim Warren through Strategy Dynamics and basically comprises the core modules he offers as part of the SCiO Apprenticeship bundle. Follow the link from the enquire button and scroll down to select The Essentials bundle . Class 1: Specifying your desired performance outcomes: Creating time-charts of past...
available on LMS
Course is online
£350 (pre-recorded)
£350 (pre-recorded)
Trainer
Kim Warren
SD advanced
available on LMS
System Dynamics

advanced (SD extension)

£350 each (pre-recorded) Kim Warren
The extension classes add a set of frameworks and models to tackle common important issues or to enrich Core models. There are six courses in the ‘Business Modelling : Extension Classes’ offered by Kim Warren through Strategy Dynamics. They can be taken together as a bundle for £1950, or separately for £350 each. Click on the titles for more details and to book each individually. The six courses
SD advanced
System Dynamics

advanced (SD extension)

The extension classes add a set of frameworks and models to tackle common important issues or to enrich Core models. There are six courses in the ‘Business Modelling : Extension Classes’ offered by Kim Warren through Strategy Dynamics. They can be taken together as a bundle for £1950, or separately for £350 each. Click on the titles for more details and to book each individually. The six courses...
available on LMS
Course is online
£350 each (pre-recorded)
£350 each (pre-recorded)
Trainer
Kim Warren

Selected books on System Dynamics

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Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World

RRP: £45.30 Hardcover: 768 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (16 Dec. 2000) ISBN: 0071179895 Today’s leading authority on the subject of this text is the author, MIT Standish Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group, John D. Sterman. Sterman’s objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve...
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Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World

RRP: £45.30 Hardcover: 768 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (16 Dec. 2000) ISBN: 0071179895 Today’s leading authority on the subject of this text is the author, MIT Standish Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group, John D. Sterman. Sterman’s objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve...
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Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics: A Feedback Systems Approach

RRP: £35 Paperback : 466 pages ISBN : 0470012862 Publisher : Wiley; Pap/Cdr Edition (8 Aug. 2007) Language: : English "John Morecroft′s book is an ideal text for students interested in system modelling and its application to a range of real world problems. The book covers all that is necessary to develop expertise in system dynamics modelling and through the range of applications makes a...
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Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics: A Feedback Systems Approach

RRP: £35 Paperback : 466 pages ISBN : 0470012862 Publisher : Wiley; Pap/Cdr Edition (8 Aug. 2007) Language: : English "John Morecroft′s book is an ideal text for students interested in system modelling and its application to a range of real world problems. The book covers all that is necessary to develop expertise in system dynamics modelling and through the range of applications makes a...
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Strategic Management Dynamics

RRP: £30.00 PDF download: 720 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (7 Dec. 2007) ISBN: 0470060670 Award winning author Kim Warren presents his new book: Strategic Management Dynamics - a complete framework in the field of Strategic Management. Strategic Management Dynamics builds on, and goes substantially beyond the existing strategy textbooks with its focus on understanding and managing how...
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Strategic Management Dynamics

RRP: £30.00 PDF download: 720 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (7 Dec. 2007) ISBN: 0470060670 Award winning author Kim Warren presents his new book: Strategic Management Dynamics - a complete framework in the field of Strategic Management. Strategic Management Dynamics builds on, and goes substantially beyond the existing strategy textbooks with its focus on understanding and managing how...
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Industrial Dynamics

RRP: £22.85 Paperback : 482 pages ISBN: 1614275335 Publisher : Martino Fine Books; Illustrated Edition (2 Dec. 2013) Language: : English 2013 Reprint of 1961 First Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This work has been cited as one of the most seminal works of the era. Forrester outlines industrial dynamics as an experimental...
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Industrial Dynamics

RRP: £22.85 Paperback : 482 pages ISBN: 1614275335 Publisher : Martino Fine Books; Illustrated Edition (2 Dec. 2013) Language: : English 2013 Reprint of 1961 First Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This work has been cited as one of the most seminal works of the era. Forrester outlines industrial dynamics as an experimental...
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System Dynamics: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis: Practical guide with examples for the design of industrial, economic, biological, engineering and environmental models.

RRP: £34.41 Paperback: ‎ 339 pp Publisher: ‎ Independently published ; ISBN 979-8649370226 This book offers a time-efficient approach for readers to acquire step-by-step knowledge in the formation and construction of dynamic models using Vensim. It addresses the challenge of working with minimal current and historical data by providing simulation models that accommodate such analyses. By...
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System Dynamics: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis: Practical guide with examples for the design of industrial, economic, biological, engineering and environmental models.

RRP: £34.41 Paperback: ‎ 339 pp Publisher: ‎ Independently published ; ISBN 979-8649370226 This book offers a time-efficient approach for readers to acquire step-by-step knowledge in the formation and construction of dynamic models using Vensim. It addresses the challenge of working with minimal current and historical data by providing simulation models that accommodate such analyses. By...
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Thinking in Systems: a Primer

RRP: £9.16 Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co (20 July 2017) ISBN: 1603580557 Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the...
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Thinking in Systems: a Primer

RRP: £9.16 Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co (20 July 2017) ISBN: 1603580557 Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the...
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The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization: Second edition

RRP: £25 Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Random House Business; 2Rev Ed edition (6 April 2006) ISBN: 9781905211203 Peter Senge, founder and director of the Society for Organisational Learning and senior lecturer at MIT, has found the means of creating a 'learning organisation'. In The Fifth Discipline, he draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the...
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The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization: Second edition

RRP: £25 Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Random House Business; 2Rev Ed edition (6 April 2006) ISBN: 9781905211203 Peter Senge, founder and director of the Society for Organisational Learning and senior lecturer at MIT, has found the means of creating a 'learning organisation'. In The Fifth Discipline, he draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the...
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking

RRP: £18.40 used Paperback: ‎ 368 pp Publisher: ‎ Nicholas Brealey International; ISBN 978-1857883114 [focus is causal loop mapping] Systems thinking can help you tame the complexity of real-world problems by providing a structured way of balancing a broad, overall view with the selection of the right level of detail, truly allowing you to "see the forest for the trees". Only by taking a broad...
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking

RRP: £18.40 used Paperback: ‎ 368 pp Publisher: ‎ Nicholas Brealey International; ISBN 978-1857883114 [focus is causal loop mapping] Systems thinking can help you tame the complexity of real-world problems by providing a structured way of balancing a broad, overall view with the selection of the right level of detail, truly allowing you to "see the forest for the trees". Only by taking a broad...