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Making system dynamics useful: a personal memoir
Author(s) -
Roberts Edward B.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
system dynamics review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.491
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1099-1727
pISSN - 0883-7066
DOI - 10.1002/sdr.374
Subject(s) - memoir , active listening , dynamics (music) , field (mathematics) , computer science , psychology , history , art history , pedagogy , communication , mathematics , pure mathematics
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.