Using systems modeling to refine strategy.

While I was probably late to learn the conceptof strategy testing,I might have learned about systems modeling too early in my career,stumbling on Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primerbefore I began my career in software.Over the years, I’ve discovered a number of ways to miuse systems modeling,but it remains the most effective, flexible tool I’ve found to debugging complex problems.

In this chapter, we’ll work through:

when systems model is a useful technique, and when it’s bette...