Dynamic Modeling of Systems and Enterprise

Course Number: 
SYS 681

The course introduces students to system dynamics models of business policy  analysis and forecasting of associated management problems of complex systems and enterprise.  The course covers advanced techniques of policy and strategy development applications: system thinking and modeling dynamics of growth and stability, including interaction of human factors with the technology.  The tools of increasing power and complexity are offered for students business and management applications: causal feedback diagrams, technology process graphs, information processing flowcharts, decision scenarios.  Students will get hands-on training in systems modeling by STELLA and AnyLogic software languages and perform their own case studies of real system of technology  and/or business development.