Industrial Dynamics Jay Forrester Pdf' title='Industrial Dynamics Jay Forrester Pdf' />Leverage Points Places to Intervene in a System. By Donella MeadowsFolks who do systems analysis have a great belief in leverage points. These are places within a complex system a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything. This idea is not unique to systems analysis its embedded in legend. The silver bullet, the trimtab, the miracle cure, the secret passage, the magic password, the single hero who turns the tide of history. The nearly effortless way to cut through or leap over huge obstacles. We not only want to believe that there are leverage points, we want to know where they are and how to get our hands on them. Leverage points are points of power. The systems analysis community has a lot of lore about leverage points. Those of us who were trained by the great Jay Forrester at MIT have all absorbed one of his favorite stories. People know intuitively where leverage points are, he says. Time after time Ive done an analysis of a company, and Ive figured out a leverage point in inventory policy, maybe, or in the relationship between sales force and productive force, or in personnel policy. Then Ive gone to the company and discovered that theres already a lot of attention to that point. Everyone is trying very hard to push it IN THE WRONG DIRECTIONThe classic example of that backward intuition was my own introduction to systems analysis, the world model. Asked by the Club of Rome to show how major global problems poverty and hunger, environmental destruction, resource depletion, urban deterioration, unemployment are related and how they might be solved, Forrester made a computer model and came out with a clear leverage point. Growth. Not only population growth, but economic growth. 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Growth has costs as well as benefits, and we typically dont count the costs among which are poverty and hunger, environmental destruction, etc. What is needed is much slower growth, much different kinds of growth, and in some cases no growth or negative growth. The worlds leaders are correctly fixated on economic growth as the answer to virtually all problems, but theyre pushing with all their might in the wrong direction. Another of Forresters classics was his urban dynamics study, published in 1. The less of it there is, the better off the city is even the low income folks in the city. This model came out at a time when national policy dictated massive low income housing projects, and Forrester was derided. Now those projects are being torn down in city after city. Counterintuitive. Thats Forresters word to describe complex systems. Leverage points are not intuitive. Or if they are, we intuitively use them backward, systematically worsening whatever problems we are trying to solve. Introduction 3 November 1995 Industrial ecology is an emerging field. There is much discussion and debate over its definition as well as its. The systems analysts I know have come up with no quick or easy formulas for finding leverage points. When we study a system, we usually learn where leverage points are. Industrial Dynamics Jay Forrester Pdf' title='Industrial Dynamics Jay Forrester Pdf' />But a new system weve never encountered Well, our counterintuitions arent that well developed. Give us a few months or years and well figure it out. And we know from bitter experience that, because of counterintuitiveness, when we do discover the systems leverage points, hardly anybody will believe us. Very frustrating, especially for those of us who yearn not just to understand complex systems, but to make the world work better. So one day I was sitting in a meeting about how to make the world work better actually it was a meeting about how the new global trade regime, NAFTA and GATT and the World Trade Organization, is likely to make the world work worse. The more I listened, the more I began to simmer inside. This is a HUGE NEW SYSTEM people are inventing I said to myself. They havent the SLIGHTEST IDEA how this complex structure will behave, myself said back to me. Its almost certainly an example of cranking the system in the wrong direction its aimed at growth, growth at any priceAnd the control measures these nice, liberal folks are talking about to combat it small parameter adjustments, weak negative feedback loops are PUNYSuddenly, without quite knowing what was happening, I got up, marched to the flip chart, tossed over to a clean page, and wrote PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEMin increasing order of effectiveness9. Constants, parameters, numbers subsidies, taxes, standards. Regulating negative feedback loops. Driving positive feedback loops. Material flows and nodes of material intersection. Information flows. The rules of the system incentives, punishments, constraints. The distribution of power over the rules of the system. The goals of the system. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system its goals, power structure, rules, its culture arises. Everyone in the meeting blinked in surprise, including me. Thats brilliant someone breathed. Huh said someone else. I realized that I had a lot of explaining to do. I also had a lot of thinking to do. As with most of the stuff that come to me in boil over mode, this list was not exactly tightly reasoned. As I began to share it with others, especially systems analysts who had their own lists and activists who wanted to put the list to immediate use, questions and comments came back that caused me to rethink, add and delete items, change the order, add caveats. In a minute Ill go through the list I ended up with, explain the jargon, give examples and exceptions. The reason for this introduction is to place the list in a context of humility and to leave room for evolution. 4 Temporada The Walking Dead Dublado Utorrent. What bubbled up in me that day was distilled from decades of rigorous analysis of many different kinds of systems done by many smart people. But complex systems are, well, complex. Its dangerous to generalize about them. What you are about to read is a work in progress. Its not a recipe for finding leverage points. Rather its an invitation to think more broadly about system change. Here, in the light of a cooler dawn, is a revised list PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEMin increasing order of effectiveness1. Constants, parameters, numbers such as subsidies, taxes, standards. The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows. The structure of material stocks and flows such as transport networks, population age structures. The lengths of delays, relative to the rate of system change. The strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the impacts they are trying to correct against. The gain around driving positive feedback loops. The structure of information flows who does and does not have access to information. The rules of the system such as incentives, punishments, constraints. The power to add, change, evolve, or self organize system structure. The goals of the system. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters arises. The power to transcend paradigms. To explain parameters, stocks, delays, flows, feedback, and so forth, I need to start with a basic diagram. The state of the system is whatever standing stock is of importance amount of water behind the dam, amount of harvestable wood in the forest, number of people in the population, amount of money in the bank, whatever. System states are usually physical stocks, but they could be nonmaterial ones as well self confidence, degree of trust in public officials, perceived safety of a neighborhood. There are usually inflows that increase the stock and outflows that decrease it.