System Dynamics Resource Page
Hosted by Craig W. Kirkwood

This web site provides resources related to system dynamics. To view or print the resources below that are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) use Adobe Reader. Note: When you print from Adobe Reader, set "Page Scaling" to "None" on the Print dialog to print full size. Otherwise, some of these documents will print slightly smaller.

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  1. Web page for OPM 591 High Performance Management Processes. This course has not been offered in several years, but the course outline may still be of interest.
  2. Support materials for the beer game production-distribution exercise
  3. Business Process Analysis Workshops: System Dynamics Models. This 41 page document contains system dynamics simulation models that illustrate analysis methods.
  4. New Product Dynamics: Illustrative System Dynamics Models (NewProd.pdf, 271,106 bytes). This is a 28 page introduction to system dynamics models of new product market dynamics based on word-of-mouth models.
  5. System Dynamics Methods: A Quick Introduction. This is a 125 page introduction to system dynamics methods using business examples.
  6. Systems Thinking: Managing the White Spaces in an Organization (SysThink.pdf, 13,782 bytes). This is a set of eight introductory overheads. This is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
  7. Vensim PLE Quick Reference and Tutorial (VenPLE.pdf, 354,766 bytes). This is an twenty-three page reference for Vensim PLE, Version 5.4d, including short tutorials on using Vensim PLE to construct causal loop diagrams, stock-and-flow diagrams, and simulation models. This is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
  8. Related web sites

  Go to ASU decision analysis and system dynamics resources page.

Last updated July 29, 2008.

Craig W. Kirkwood (craig.kirkwood "AT" asu.edu)
Department of Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4706
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