Weil , Henry Birdseye, "Achieving Implement Results from System Dynamics Projects: The Evolution of an Approach", 1976
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This paper documents a series of lessons that the author and his colleagues have learned about how to achieve implemented results from system dynamics projects. Through a series of three case studies, the paper illustrates the evolution of their approach to implementation over the period of 1966 to 1975. These case studies focus on: client involvement in projects; the process of model development; the nature of the models developed; and the end of the projects. The paper draws upon the case studies and earlier writing on the subject by Roberts to generalize about the factors that are most critical in achieving successful implementation. These factors include: the sharpness of the project’s problem focus; the urgency of the problem addressed; the organizational position of the clients; the degree and nature of client involvement; the size of the model developed; the demonstrable validity of the model and the nature of the project’s end-products.