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Systems Thinking and System Dynamics
Accelerating economic, technological, social, and environmental changes challenge managers and citizens to learn at increasing rates. Yet learning in such environments is difficult precisely because we never confront many of the consequences of our most important decisions. Effective learning requires us to become system thinkers. We must develop the ability to represent and assess dynamic complexity-and practical tools we can use to accelerate learning throughout organizations.
A major problem that senior managers face today is dealing with fundamental change-issues that result either from business success or failure. Whether your company is growing quickly or its growth is stagnant, management strategies and policies that worked before may not be working now. How should you change them? How can you improve (or sustain) growth? ...adjust internal capacity to demand? ...resolve other issues that are creating problems?
Professor John Sterman,
MIT, Sloan School of Management
Pendaran has combined the System Dynamics developed at MIT by Professor Jay Forrester and Professor John Sterman's business dynamics modeling with work of other leading systems thinkers such as Russell Ackoff to provide a practical approach to understanding this dynamic complexity. Our team’s many decades of experience bring these topics to life.
Course offerings:
1-Day Introduction to Systems Thinking
2-Day Executive Systems Thinking
5-Day Systems Thinking
All classes are conducted as workshops with hands-on simulations including the production and distribution supply chain “Beer Game” and other scenario simulations.