Kai Neumann

A small qualitative model not just to show the importance of the iMODELER's main features. It also shows how to change one's organization's culture to a culture of regular reflexion of interconnections against a number of psychological obstacles. For more background information I recommend from Apple's iTunes Store the interactive ibook "KNOW WHY and the iMODELER" with many models and exercises. Note: a few factors have a quantitative formula. This is fake. I put them there to create the quantitative screenshots in the presenter for illustration purposes. Sorry :-)

The motivation for the model: A number of question arose from several threads on LinkedIn, within projects for the Federal Environmental Agency and from my discussions on a banking congress. The question always was whether rich people need the poor people, whether poor people should get more with benefit for the rich people, whether more sustainability makes everything more expensive or whether environmental costs and the rising costs of resources harm the economy at all. As my mental models on these questions stem from a number of different models I thought it would be time to put them to test in a new, qualitative and maybe even quantitative model. The result is a yet simple model looking at two kind of peo ...»

This is just a fictious case of an enterprise to show how it can be comprehensively modeled. Not only the weightings should differ from case to case but also more concrete factors should be added, e.g the concrete competitors, the features of the products and their impact onto the customer's feeling of integration and development, the potential market expansion etc.. For a possible quantification and a BSC it should be checked whether all measures and decisions impact measurable factors. Also a lot soft factors like informal communication, intaction with customers, the concrete ways to let the staff feel integration and development, etc. should also be added.

An English text is provided with the interactive ebook on Apple iBooks Store and with "KNOW-WHY: Systems thinking and modeling ...." available on amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Know-Why-Thinking-intelligent-management-ebook/dp/B00BK1QCFU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UT...)  Ein qualitatives Ursache-Wirkungsmodell von Kai Neumann zur Erläuterung der Triebfedern menschlichen Handelns hergeleitet durch die KNOW-WHY-Denkweise [Kai Neumann in E:CO, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2013: "KNOW WHY Thinking as a new approach to systems thinking"] und die sich daraus ergebenden Schlüsse auf ein Wandel hin zu nachhaltigerem Verhalten. Motivation: Als widerlegt und doch noch extrem verbreitet als Grundlage vieler Modelle der Ökonomie aber auch de ...»

This model is basically the model from H. Bossel: Bossel, Hartmut: “Systems and Models: Complexity, Dynamics, Evolution, Sustainability”, 2007

This qualitative model and its description in the presenter shows an interconnected view of the advantages and disadvanteges of today's investments into green energy.