Systems Dynamics:


What is System Dynamics?

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Pioneer:

Jay Forrester

Jay W. Forrester is Germeshausen Professor Emeritus and Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He started the System Dynamics Group at the Sloan School and with it, the field of system dynamics.


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Master-Expert & Expert Coordinator:

Mark Alpert

Mark Alpert is Association’s Master-Expert &Research Coordinator for the Systems Dynamics School of Thought. He has expertise in the Systems Dynamics field as President of Pegasus Communications Inc and over 25 years of experience in business excellence and organizational learning.

Association members who wish to add to the Systems Dynamics materials and research section can submit inquiries to Mark here.

Father of Systems Thinking:

Precurser to Systems Thinking:

  1. Cybernetics

Schools of Thought:

  1. General Systems Theory (GST)
  2. Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems
  3. Systems Dynamics (SD)
  4. Soft Systems Methodology (SSM)

Applications