System dynamics

The SD method, developed by Professor Jay W. Forrester et al at the Sloan School of Industrial Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a tool that assists the understanding of a complicated system, and perceive how an internal feedback loop within a system impact the whole system’s behaviour. SD is a methodology that aids the decision making process through the understanding of systemic forces that created and continues to sustain a problem (Roberts, 1978).

Why System Dynamics ?

• See the interrelationships rather than the linear cause-effect chains
• See the process of change rather than a snapshot
• In systems thinking every influence is both a cause and effect