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 business and organizational problems. System dynamics is both a currently utilized approach to organizational problem solving at the professional level, and a field of study in business, engineering, and social and physical sciences.
'Much more than an introduction, John Morecroft's Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics uses interactive “mini-simulators and microworlds” to create an engaging and effective learning environment in which readers, whatever their ...
This book offers recommendations that could be enacted by federal statistical agencies to modernize the measurement of business dynamics, particularly the production of information on small and young firms that can have a disproportionately ...
Scholars and practitioners alike will enjoy gaining a richer perspective and deeper understanding of family enterprises.' – Pramodita Sharma, University of Vermont, US and Editor, Family Business Review This engaging book reveals how and ...
The numerous examples provide a rich test-bed for the development of systems thinking and modelling skills John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management This book, with its vivid examples and ...
It was Sterman's (2000) book entitled Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World that introduced the term “business dynamics.” Business dynamics is concerned with learning in and about complex systems.
It would take remarkable discipline by entrepreneurial frackers in the biggest US tight-oil production basins (such as Bakken and Eagle Ford) to withhold production for months on end, or even years, in the hope that the oil price will ...
Deciding whether to be open or covert about the attack. In the restaurant case, secrecy was important because, had the competitor been aware of the plan, it could have looked out for those units that were under attack and responded ...
dynamics plays an important role not only as a driver of job creation but also as an engine of reallocation and productivity growth. This book aims at providing new evidence on business dynamics from different countries and at shedding ...
Business Dynamics Equals Business Success
If you are a Microsoft Dynamics GP developer, consultant, or power user who wants to create and customize applications, then this book is for you. A working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics GP is required.