John Sterman

Articles

• Overcoming the Improvement Paradox   view details
  "Our findings suggest that the inability to manage an improvement program as a dynamic process is the main determinant of program failure."

• System Dynamics Modeling for Project Management   view details
  "This paper describes in brief the use of system dynamics modeling for management of large scale projects, including large scale engineering and construction projects."

• All Models are Wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist   view details
  "Thoughtful leaders increasingly recognize that we are not only failing to solve the persistent problems we face, but are in fact causing them. System dynamics is designed to help avoid such policy resistance and identify high-leverage policies for sustained improvement. What does it take to be an effective systems thinker, and to teach system dynamics fruitfully? Understanding complex systems requires mastery of concepts such as feedback, stocks and flows, time delays, and nonlinearity. Research shows that these concepts are highly counterintuitive and poorly understood. It also shows how they can be taught and learned."