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Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics A Feedback Systems Approach.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2015.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Epigraph
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Foreword by Peter Checkland
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Notes
- Preface from the First Edition
- Manufacturing Dynamics and Information Networks
- Bounded Rationality and Behavioural Decision Making
- Modelling for Learning
- The Dynamics of Strategy
- Soft Systems and Complementary Modelling Methods
- Notes
- How to Use This Book
- MBA and Modular/Executive MBA
- Non-Degree Executive Education
- Undergraduate and Specialist
- Notes
- Chapter 1 The Appeal and Power of Strategic Modelling
- Introduction
- A New Approach to Modelling
- The Puzzling Dynamics of International Fisheries
- Model of a Natural Fishery
- Operating a Simple Harvested Fishery
- Preview of the Book and Topics Covered
- Appendix
- Archive Materials from World Dynamics
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 2 Introduction to Feedback Systems Thinking
- Ways of Interpreting Situations in Business and Society
- A Start on Causal Loop Diagrams
- Structure and Behaviour Through Time - Feedback Loops and the Dynamics of a Slow-to-Respond Shower
- From Events to Dynamics and Feedback
- Drug-related Crime
- Purpose of Causal Loop Diagrams
- A Summary
- Feedback Structure and Dynamics of a Technology-based Growth Business
- Causal Loop Diagrams
- Basic Tips
- Causal Loop Diagram of Psychological Pressures and Unintended Haste in a Troubled Internet Start-Up
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 3 Modelling Dynamic Systems
- Asset Stock Accumulation
- The Coordinating Network
- Modelling Symbols in Use: A Closer Look at Drug-related Crime
- Equation Formulations
- Experiments with the Model of Drug-related Crime
- Benefits of Model Building and Simulation
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 4 World of Showers
- Getting Started
- Redesigning Your World of Showers
- Inside World of Showers
- Simulations of World of Showers B
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 5 Cyclical Dynamics and the Process of Model Building
- An Overview of the Modelling Process
- Employment and Production Instability
- Puzzling Performance Over Time
- Equation Formulations and Computations in Production Control
- Modelling Workforce Management and Factory Production Dynamics
- Equation Formulations in Workforce Management
- Chronic Cyclicality in Employment and Production and How to Cure It
- Modelling for Learning and Soft Systems
- Appendix 1: Model Communication and Policy Structure Diagrams
- Appendix 2: The Dynamics of Information Smoothing
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 6 The Dynamics of Growth from Diffusion
- Stocks and Flows in New Product Adoption - A Conceptual Diffusion Model
- The Bass Model
- An Elegant Special Case of a Diffusion Model
- A Variation on the Diffusion Model: The Rise of Low-cost Air Travel in Europe
- Strategy and Simulation of Growth Scenarios
- Conclusion
- Appendix: More About the Fliers Model
- Notes
- References