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Making system dynamics useful: a personal memoir
Article first published online: 30 OCT 2007
DOI: 10.1002/sdr.374
Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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System Dynamics Review
Special Issue: Exploring the Next Great Frontier: System Dynamics at 50 Guest Editor: John D. Sterman
Volume 23, Issue 2-3, pages 119–136, Summer - Autumn (Fall) 2007
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Roberts, E. B. (2007), Making system dynamics useful: a personal memoir. System Dynamics Review, 23: 119–136. doi: 10.1002/sdr.374
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Abstract
During the many years that I was a founding member of the MIT Industrial Dynamics (ID) Group, later system dynamics (SD), I focused on trying to apply SD concepts, tools and techniques to the real world and to having real impact. That orientation originated from listening to Jay Forrester as he related his personal history and communicated his personal values to our group and to me individually in his forceful and influential manner. Here I review that history and some lessons I learned. As this is a personal memoir I do not attempt to review the entire field, but concentrate entirely on my years of activity in the SD field from 1958 to 1993 and on the aspects most familiar to me, i.e., my own teaching and research and the work of Pugh–Roberts Associates, Inc. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.