This Post takes into account that the reader familiar with my previous posts about Agent-based modeling using Insight Maker. The intent of this post is to help others to display Total Agents, Certain agent type, and specific agent data in Insight Maker. I found this task not trivial, so I thought sharing how to do …
Displaying Agent data in Agent-based modeling using Insight Maker. Read More »
The purpose of this post is to explain how to model interactions using causal diagrams. Causal diagrams depict non-linear and bi-directional interactions between elements that together create a system. If you’ll be asked to depict in a diagram a simple flow (from customer requests to finished requests), your model will be more or less like …
Most of us used to break a complex problem into smaller simpler problems, resolve them, and therefore resolve the problem. We are using this approach when we try to resolve problems in our organizations. But, organization are systems created from parts that influence each other. Organizations are based on connections between their parts to impact …
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Often when you zoom on a cause of a problem in organizations, it becomes clear that people’s worldview, how they react to events (fast or slow thinking), and strategic behavior has a crucial contribution to the problem. If this is the case, address the human challenge first. Any attempt to “fix” the problem without changing the …
Most of us using analysis to find what cause problems in any system. Few are using the opposite approach (synthesis) which focus on the system as a whole. We believe that Management consulting that dealing with complexity should start with a synthesis of a system and move to analysis when needed.