Industrial Dynamics

by Jay Wright Forrester

This work has been cited as one of the most seminal works of the era. Forrester outlines industrial dynamics as an experimental, quantitative philosophy for designing corporate structure and policies that are compatible with an organization's growth and stability objectives. Forrester believes that management systems possess an orderly and identifiable framework that determines the character of industrial and economic behavior. In this volume, he presents for the first time a methodology for detecting and exhibiting this structure for study.

Genres: Business, Economics, Nonfiction, Science, Engineering

480 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1963

Reviews

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading this book is a struggle. Working with it over an extended period is a struggle. Both are worth it.

If you're already aware of and ready to learn more of systems thinking and system dynamics, then this is a classic. But this is no pageturner. It requires hard thinking.

Get through it and it will change how you view the world around you.

More later.

[Bob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Used as supplemental reading by Prof. Dennis Meadows, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College for Introduction to System Dynamics course, Fall 1978.

[Jose]

Its good

[JCR · Rating 5 out of 5]

True classic, from the father of system dynamics.