System Dynamics Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
[SQUEAKING] [RUSTLING] [CLICKING] JAMES PAINE: Hi, everybody. My name is James Paine. I'm with the System Dynamics Group here at MIT. I'll give you a little bit more background on myself in a few minutes. But just to be sure everyone's where they're supposed to be, this is System Dynamics-- Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World. This is a three-hour IAP overview session. Just making sure no one stands up and walks out at this point. OK, good, yes. I'm doing pretty good. A little overview of what we're doing today. So right now, we're in the middle of the welcome, which is nice. We're going to do a quick overview of What is Systems Thinking? And I'm going to try to emphasize this throughout the day, that there is a subtle difference between system dynamics, the method set, and system thinking, the concept and field. And they overlap, and they flow in and out of each other, but they are subtly different. Additionally, because ...