>I am putting on a meeting on system thinking and am trying to put together
>a resource list. I would greatly appreciate if people could pass along
>any the following types of resources to me at mozenter@bu.edu. I will of
>course pass along what I find to the list when I'm done.
>
>types of resources I'm looking for:
>
>1) web pages
>2) books other than 5th discipline and field book
>3) list servs
>4) conferences
>5) universities or other places (including coaching) people can advance
>their knowledge of system thinking. I'm particularly interested in ones
>in Boston (other than MIT of course)
>6) consulting firms
>7) other
[Host's Note: Thanks, Jonathan, for this compilation. Much of this comes
from an earlier compilation by Prof. Jay Forrester which has appeared here
on LO ( http://www.learning-org.com/98.11/0083.htm ). As you'll see in the
next msg, Prof. Forrester has an addition and a correction to Jonathan's
list. ...Rick]
Much thanks to the many who responded to my request!!!!!!
System Thinking Resources
Books
Many of the major system dynamics books are available from:
Pegasus Communications, Inc.
One Moody Street
Waltham, MA 02453-5339
Within the U.S
tel:1-800-272-0945
fax: 1-800-701-7083
Outside the U.S.
Tel: 781-398-9700
fax: 781-894-7175
Web page: www.pegasuscom.com
Pegasus Communications, Inc. Also actively supports the field with
newsletters (System Thinker and Leverage), conferences, and a broad set
of
publications.
-any book by Jay Forrester (Productivity Press)
Jossey-Bass (San Francisco) is also a great publisher for system
Thinking.
John Wiley and Sons publishes several of Russell Ackoff's books;
Ackoff's Best (ISBN: 0-471-31634-2)
The Art of Problem Solving (ISBN: 0-471-85808-0)
Creating the Corporate Future (ISBN: 0-471-09009-3)
1. Barry Richmond (High Performance Systems) has a systems thinking
book.
2. Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future,
(Berrett-Koehler)\ is a forthcoming book (June 1999).
3. Classroom Dynamics: Implementing a Technology-Based Learning
Environment, Mandinach, Ellen B., and Hugh F. Cline, 1994. Hillsdale,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 211 pp.
4. Collected Papers of Jay W. Forrester. Forrester, Jay W. 1975.
Portland, OR: Productivity Press. 284 pp.
5. Corporate Planning and Policy Design: A System Dynamics Approach.
Lyneis, James M. 1980. Portland, OR: Productivity Press. 520 pp.
6. Designing high-performance schools (St. Lucie Press)
7. Dynamics of Commodity Production Cycles. Meadows, Dennis L. 1970.
Portland, OR: Productivity Press. 104 pp.
8. Dynamics of Growth in a Finite World. Meadows, Dennis L., et al.
1974. Portland, OR: Productivity Press. 637 pp.
9. Economic Cycles: An Analysis of Underlying Causes. Mass, Nathaniel
J. 1975. Portland, OR: Productivity Press. 185 pp.
10. Elements of the System Dynamics Method, Randers, Jorgen, ed., 1980.
Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 488 pp.
11. Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory, Richardson,
George P., 1991. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 374
pp.
12. General system theory. Bertalanffy, L. Von (1968). New York:
Braziller.
13. How Organizations Learn, Tony DiBella's book (with Ed Nevis)
14. Industrial Dynamics. Forrester, Jay W. 1961. Portland, OR:
Productivity Press. 464 pp.
15. Introduction to Computer Simulation: A System Dynamics Modeling
Approach. Roberts, Nancy, David Andersen, Ralph Deal, Michael Garet,
William Shaffer. 1983. Portland OR: Productivity Press, 562 pages.
16. Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling with DYNAMO. Richardson,
George P., and Alexander L. Pugh III. 1981. Portland, OR: Productivity
Press. 413 pp.
17. Introduction to Systems Thinking (either for STELLA or ithink) by
High Performance Systems, Inc.
18. Introduction to Urban. Dynamics. Alfeld, Louis Edward, and Alan K.
Graham. 1976. Portland, OR: Productivity Press. 333 pp.
19. Life Cycle of Economic Development. Forrester, Nathan B. 1973.
Portland, OR: Productivity Press. 194 pp.
20. Managerial Applications of System Dynamics. Roberts, Edward B.
1978. Portland, OR: Productivity Press. 562 pp.
21. Modeling for Learning Organizations, Morecroft, John D. W., and John
D. Sterman, ed., (1994). Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 400 pp.
22. Modeling for Management: Simulation in Support of Systems Thinking,
Richardson, George P., 1996. Brookfield, Vt.: Dartmouth Publishing. 493
& 447 pp.
23. On purposeful systems. Ackoff, R. L. & Emery, F.E. (1972).
Chicago: Aldine-Atherton.
24. Principles of Systems. (2nd ed.). Forrester, Jay W. 1968. Portland,
OR: Productivity Press. 391 pp.
25. Readings in Urban Dynamics: Volume 1, Mass, Nathaniel J., ed., 1974.
Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 303 pp.
26. Readings in Urban Dynamics: Volume 2, Schroeder, Walter W., III,
Robert E. Sweeney, and Louis Edward Alfeld, ed., 1975. Portland, OR:
Productivity Press, 305 pp.
27. Redesigning America's Schools: A systems approach to improvement
Published by Christopher-Gordon Publishers in Norwood, Mass.
28. Reengineering Alternative: A Plan for Making Your Current Culture
Work Schneider, William E., New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. 1994
29. Seeing Systems - Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life;
Oshry, B., 1995, Berrett-Koehler, (ISBN: 1-881052-99-0)
30. Self-organizing universe. Jantsch, E. (1980). New York: Pergamon
Press.
31. Social psychology of organizations, (2nd ed.), Katz, D. & Kahn, R.L.
(1978). New York: Wiley & Sons.
32. Soft Systems Methodology in Action, Checkland, P.; Scholes, J.,1990,
John Wiley & Sons (ISBN: 0-471-92768-6)
33. Study Notes in System Dynamics. Goodman, Michael R. 1974. Portland,
OR: Productivity Press. 388 pp.
34. System Dynamics for Beginners by Arlen Wolpert, A Meditation on
Mystical Union Using System Dynamics, version 1.3 (1996).
35. System Dynamics Modeling--A Practical Approach, Coyle, R. G., 1996.
London: Chapman & Hall. 413 pp.
36. Systems Thinking Basics by Anderson and Johnson. Pegasus
Communications
37. Systems Thinking Playbook by Linda Booth Sweeney and Dennis
Meadows. The book is full of exercises to introduce people to systems
thinking. Order copies by Contacting Tracy Botting, Games & Promotions
Manager, IPSSR/Laboratory for Interactive Learning, Thompson Hall, Rm.
G01, 105 Main Street, Durham, NH 03824. There phone number is
603-826-2244 and Tracys e-mail address is tlb@cisunix.unh.edu.
38. Systems Thinking, Systems Practice, Checkland, P., 1993; John Wiley
& Sons (ISBN: 0-471-27911-0)
39. Systems thinking. Emery, F.E. (?). Penguin Books.
40. Toward Global Equilibrium: Collected Papers, Meadows, Dennis L., and
Donella H. Meadows, ed., 1973. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 358
pp.
41. Towards a social ecology. Emery, F.E. & Trist, E.L. (1972). New
York: Plenum Press
42. Urban Dynamics. Forrester, Jay W. 1969. Portland, OR: Productivity
Press. 285 pp.
43. World Dynamics. (1973 second ed.). Forrester, Jay W. 1971.
Portland, OR: Productivity Press. 144 pp.
Other Book Sources
1) To order the system dynamics bibliography of over 4100 entries,
specify IBM-type PC or Macintosh, and send $35 in US$ drawn on a US bank
to:
System Dynamics Society
Roberta Spencer, Executive Director
Milne 300--Rockefeller College
State University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222 USA
Tel: 1-518-442-3865
fax: 518-442-3398
email: System.Dynamics@albany.edu
2) The bibliography can also be downloaded from:
http://www.vensim.com/sdmail/sdbib.html
3) The publications list of the System Dynamics Group at MIT is
available on the web as an Adobe Acrobat document from:
FTP://Sysdyn.MIT.edu/Ftp/sdep/papers/D-3059-43.pdf
Web Sites
1. http://cnsvax.albany.edu/~gr383/
2. http://gutenberg.com (clicking on the GKN icon on the home page),
Business Learning Platform
3. http://home.earthlink.net/~tomfid/
4. http://world.std.com/~awolpert
5. http://www.ciens.ula.ve/~rsotaqui/sistemika/english/
6. http://www.decisiondynamics.com;The article is titled The System
Dynamics Modeling Methodology.
7. http://www.de-sa.com, (as a link to dynamic simulation modeling)
8. http://www.hps-inc.com (High Performance Systems, Inc.)
9. http://www.idongroup.com
10. http://www.lambent.com/Systems/sysres.htm
11. http://www.learning-org.com/98.11/0083.htm
12. http://www.livetolearn.com.
13. http://www.metamorphosis-online.com
14. http://www.netopia.geocities.com/shunya/
15. http://www.outsights.com/systems/intst/int.htm
16. http://www.pa-consulting.com/about/services/strategy/bus_mod.html
17. http://www.pegasuscom.com
18.http://www.rtis.com/nat/user/jfullerton/field/system.htm
19.http://www.SquareWheels.com/content/articlemain.html
20.http://www.systemsprimer.com/
21.http://www.thinking.net/
22.http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/links/bookmksd.htm (Ossimitz:
SD Megalist)
23.http://www.web.mit.edu/sdg/www
24. http://www.public.asu.edu/~kirkwood/sysdyn/SDRes.htm
25.
http://theses.mit.edu:80/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/0018.mit.theses/1982-21
26. http://sysdyn.mit.edu/sd-group/home.html (MIT System Dynamics
Group)
27. http://theses.mit.edu/ (MIT Theses )
28. http://www.ppress.com/ (Productivity Press)
29. http://learning.mit.edu/ (The Society for Organizational Learning)
30. http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/users/gossimit/links/bookmksd.htm
31. http://www.radix.net/~crbnblu/ (Bellinger/Systems Dynamics)
32. http://www.public.asu.edu/~kirkwood/sysdyn/SDRes.htm (Kirkwood
System Dynamics Resource Page)
Consulting firms
New England
1)Pugh-Roberts (http://www.pa-consulting.com) Pugh-Roberts Associates is
the first and largest consulting firm focused on using System Dynamics
simulation modeling to improve business performance. For more
information please contact: Sharon Els at (617) 864-8880 or
sharon.els@pa-consulting.com.
41 Linskey Way, Cambridge, MA 02142
Fax: 617-864-8884
2)Jose J. Pacheco
Arthur Andersen LLP
225 Franklin Street
Boston, MA 02110
617-330-4838
3)Dave Packer, Kristina Wile, and Chuck Malovhr
Comprehensive information is available on our web page:
www:stcollab.com.
Telephone: 781.275.4056; Fax: 781.275.1504.
Address: 31 Great Road, Bedford, MA 01730.
email: packerdw@aol.com
4)High Performance Systems, Inc.
45 Lyme Road, Suite 200
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 643-9636
support@hps-inc.com
5)Pontifex Consulting
One Smith Road
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 653-0228
Chris.Soderquist@valley.net
6)Whole Works Consulting
30 Rennie Road
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 643-1900
mayberry@wholeworks.com
7)Sustainability Institute
(contact Donella Meadows)
PO Box 171
Hartland Four Corners, VT 05049
(603) 643-1233
d.meadows@dartmouth.edu
8) Arthur D. Little/Innovation Associates:
http://www.innovationassociates.com/
Outside of New England
1)Alliance for Systems Knowledge (ASK) in Maryland: We specialize in
applying systems thinking to the task of redesigning entire school
systems.
2)Terry Priebe
Decision Support Associates, Inc.
29 Hill Road
Wilmington, DE 19806 USA
302-654-1673
3)Rohit Chaudhry,
3rd millennium Metamorphosis,
http://www.metamorphosis-online.com
4)Raymond T. Joseph, P.E.
Aarden Control Engineering and Science
6703 Kearney Dr.
Richmond, Texas 77469
281-343-1607
r.joseph@ieee.org
5)Decision Dynamics, Inc.
4600 East West Highway, Suite 410
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 657-8500
http://www.decisiondynamics.com/
6)The Manufacturing Game: http://www.mfg-game.com/index2.html
7) GKA/Microworlds: http://www.gka.com/
8) Sustainable Solutions, Inc.: http://www.tiac.net/users/sustsol/
9) Millennium Institute: http://www.igc.apc.org/millennium/
Millennium Institute: Threshold 21 National Sustainable Development
Models and Software:
http://www.igc.apc.org/millennium/t21/index.html
10)Satisfaction Management Systems, Inc. (SMS):
http://www.satmansys.com/
11)Systems Thinking Collaborative: http://www.stcollab.com/
12)Rolf Clark: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/faculty/rolfc/
13)Pal Davidsen: http://www.ifi.uib.no/staff/paal/
14)Ernst Diehl: http://learning.mit.edu/com/peo/ediehl.html
15)Tom Fiddaman: http://home.earthlink.net/~tomfid/
16)Craig Kirkwood: http://www.public.asu.edu/~kirkwood/
17)Mike Radzicki: http://www.tiac.net/users/sustsol
18)Khalid Saeed:
http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/SSPS/People/saeed.html
19)John Sterman: http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/
20)Merrill Warkentin: http://www.cba.neu.edu/~mwarkentin/home.htm
21)Richard Wells: http://www.wellsgaming.com/
22) Forrester Consulting: http://www.forresterconsulting.com/
Where to learn
New England
1) Suffolk University in Boston, in the Adult and Organizational
Learning Program, a course called "Systems Thinking." . Dr. Barbara Ash
is the program head and Dr. Carol Zulauf teaches the course on Systems
Thinking.
2) Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has an undergraduate and
graduate
program in system dynamics. WPI offers an undergraduate major in system
dynamics and also an inter-disciplinary doctoral program concentrating
on system dynamics. Additionally, we are considering organizing
professional development activity at our Southborogh, MA campus. Mike
Radzicki and Khalid Saeed are both at WPI.
3) Exec Education in systems thinking at MIT:
June 14-18 99 System Dynamics: Modeling for Organizational Learning
April 12-13 99 System Dynamics for Senior Managers
Sept 15-16 99 System Dynamics for Senior Managers
Info on these from the Sloan School web site
Road Maps: A Guide to Learning System Dynamics
(http://sysdyn.mit.edu/road-maps/home.html)
4) NECSI - New England Complex Systems Institute (http://necsi.org/)
Outside of New England
1) California Institute of Integral Studies at www.ciis.edu. They offer
online degrees in transformational change from the systems viewpoint.
2) Rockefeller College of Public Affairs, State University of New York
at
Albany, Albany, NY 12222 (Master of Public Administration, Master of
Public Policy, and PhD programs, all possibly concentrating in Decision
and Policy Sciences, which has a major emphasis on systems thinking and
system dynamics. Professors are David Andersen and George Richardson.)
SUNY Albany Center for Policy Research
(http://www.albany.edu/tree-tops/cpr/index.html)
3) System Dynamics conferences, (Wellington, New Zealand in 1999,
Bergen, Norway in 2000). The next annual international conference of
the System Dynamics Society will be in New Zealand, July 20-23, 1999.
Write to the System Dynamics Society,
System Dynamics Society
Roberta Spencer, Executive Director
Milne 300--Rockefeller College
State University at Albany
Albany, NY 12222 USA
Tel: 1-518-442-3865]
fax: 518-442-3398
email: System.Dynamics@albany.edu
SD Society Official Site: http://www.albany.edu/cpr/sds/
SD Society International Conferences:
http://www.albany.edu/cpr/sds/#sdconf
SD Society Policy Council: http://www.tiac.net/users/sustsol/council/
SD Bibliography: http://www.vensim.com/sdmail/sdbib.html
SD Mailing List: http://www.vensim.com/sdmail/sdmail.html
4) Antioch University - Seattle has Whole System Design and
Organizational Renewal Design programs at the master's level. Go to
www.seattleantioch.edu/WholeSystem
5) George Richardson and David Andersen (both at SUNY Albany) have been
doing two day workshops to introduce, primarily public agencies, to
systems thinking.
6) Dynamics of Strategy course - run at London Business School (#8 World
ranked B-school) uses principles of SD incorporated in thorough
strategic framework for junior and senior managers. Run by my
colleague, Dr Kim Warren, and Professor John Morecroft. This is
practical systems thinking for business folk. Course available to
students on exchange programs at LBS, and those on Senior Executive
Program, Executive Program, Sloan Fellowship Program, Masters in Finance
Program all in London, UK, and via Institute of Management in Singapore
(dates to be confirmed). Supporting this course, and others, are a
number of microworld simulations published via SMSim Ltd. Basic web
site (soon to be substantially upgraded) http://www.smsim.co.uk and
http://pluto.lbs.lon.ac.uk/sysdyn/
7) Where to Study SD: (http://web.mit.edu/sdg/www/sdg-courses/)
8) The Santa Fe Institute (http://www.santafe.edu/)
9) IIASA Home Page (http://www.iiasa.ac.at/)
10) Welcome to Web Wide Participation! (http://www.404tech.com/wwp/)
11) SDSG Classes (http://www.sdsg.com/new/lpclasse.htm)
Other Resources
1) Membership in the System Dynamics Society and subscription to the
System Dynamics Review are US$80 per year for regular members and US$40
for students.
Send application to:
John Wiley & Sons
Periodicals Division, System Dynamics Review
P.O. Box 7247 8491
Philadelphia, PA 19170
or to
John Wiley & Sons
Journals Administration, System Dynamics Review
1 Oldlands Way
Bognor Regis
West Sussex PO22 9SA
2) To contact the office of the System Dynamics Society and to order
copies of the "Beer Game" group simulation exercise:
Tel: 1-518-442-3865
fax: 518-442-3398
email: System.Dynamics@albany.edu
email: rspencer@cnsvax.albany.edu
3) There is a system dynamics discussion group on the Internet.
To join, send email to: majordomo@world.std.com
In the body of the message, enter the following two lines:
Subscribe system-dynamics
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4) More system dynamics information is available at:
http://www.std.com/vensim/sdmailing.html
5) A self-study guide to system dynamics, called "Road Maps," is
available for downloading from: http://sysdyn.mit.edu or in paper copy
from:
Creative Learning Exchange
Ms. Lees Stuntz, Director
1 Keefe Road
Acton, MA 01720, USA
Tel: 1-508-287-0070
fax: 1-508-287-0080
email: stuntzln@tiac.net
6) For those wanting information on introducing system dynamics in
kindergarten through 12th grade education:
a. The Creative Learning Exchange is a nonprofit foundation that acts as
a
clearinghouse to provide information on system dynamics in precollege
education and to help teachers share their experiences. They can be
reached
at:
Creative Learning Exchange
Ms. Lees Stuntz, Director
1 Keefe Road
Acton, MA 01720, USA
Tel: 1-978-287-0070
fax: 1-978-287-0080
email: stuntzln@tiac.net
b. The System Dynamics in Education Project at MIT has a web page with
links to pages at other K-12 activities: http://sysdyn.mit.edu/
MIT System Dynamics in Education Project (SDEP)
(http://sysdyn.mit.edu/sdep.html)
The Creative Learning Exchange (CLE)
(http://sysdyn.mit.edu/cle/home.html)
MIT SD Education K-12 Email Discussion Group
(http://sysdyn.mit.edu/k-12sd-email-list/home.html)
c. The FTP site for many of the papers on curriculum is
sysdyn.mit.edu
d. An internet discussion group on K-12 issues related to system
dynamics
is: k-12sd@sysdyn.mit.edu
To subscribe, send a note to:
mailmasters@sysdyn.mit.edu.
Please provide the following information:
First Name:
Last Name:
E-mail:
Title:
Organization:
Address:
City:
State or Province:
ZIP or Postal Code:
Country:
Day Phone Number:
Evening Phone Number:
Fax Number:
e. The summer 93 issue of the System Dynamics Review, vol. 9 no. 2, was
a
special issue on "Systems thinking in education" It contains many
interesting pieces including reports from the field by teachers.
7) The learning organization list serv for issues around learning
organizations. To get more info about this list send a message to
majordomo@world.std.com with the message info learning-org.
8) The business process reengineering list for issues around business
process reengineering. To subscribe to this list send a message to
listprocessor@is .twi.tudelft.nl containing the text SUB BPR-L
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