Systems Dynamics

A loop diagram in blue and red arrows linking A's success and B's success through their actions and their unintended obstructions of each other.
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Systems dynamics is explicitly named as a computer modelling methodology for understanding how complex systems behave over time, revealing how feedback loops and delays produce counterintuitive outcomes.
Explicitly called a methodology: computer modelling used to understand the behaviour of complex systems over time, revealing how feedback loops and delays produce counterintuitive outcomes.

In the book

  • Chapter 5, section 046 · Pioneers of Systemic Application in Design
Methods