1992, Jay Forrester, Policies, Decisions and Information Sources for Modeling
- The feedback view of management and policy
- Nature of the decision process
- Policy
- Detecting guiding policies
- Overt and implicit decisions
- Inputs to policies
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Determining the form of a policy statement
- Inputs to include
- Direction of Effect
- Magnitudes of effects hz policies
- Nonlinear policies
- Noise in decision streams
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Sources of information
- Mental data
- Written data
- Numerical data
- Reliability of information
- Use of information in the modeling process
