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Characteristics
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More Strategic
in Nature – good for more “managerial” simulations, combining costs, and
tools, people, and lifecycle issues like obsolescence
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Quantitative and
Qualitative Variables
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Mix of apples
& oranges, easily combine many seemingly disparate elements into one
model
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May include
Multimedia
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Benefits
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Provides
understanding of relationships, analysis of "nth order
effects
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ability to also
change the model "on the fly”
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good for working
in groups to model the challenges
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Analysis of long
term effects
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Capitalizes upon
visual processing capability
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Drawbacks
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Requires basic
understanding of the modeling symbolic representation system – system
dynamics and/or discrete event simulation
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Most people not
attuned to thinking systemically – requires convincing that this approach has
payoffs
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Time and
resource consuming – to build model
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Rejection
because complexity not understood – people prefer simplicity – the “right”
answer
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