SYSTEMS DYNAMICS: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00058R000100160023-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: July 2, 1974
• Content Type: BULL

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` " DMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL, USE !
SPECIAL BULLETIN
No. 18-74 2 July 1974
To: All Training Officers of the Agency
SYSTEMS DYNAMICS: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS
Systems Dynamics is a methodology developed by Professor
Jay Forrester of the Sloan School, MIT. It has been used to
analyze a spectrum of problems relevant to intelligence
interests--management, natural resource, societal, etc.
Lectures and workshop sessions illustrating intelligence
applications will be used in presenting all facets of the
methodology. Topics to be treated in the course will include
economic, political, behavioral, management and other appli-
cations, together with thorough coverage of the principles
and techniques of Systems Dynamics analysis. Toward the end
of the course the students, working in teams, will be given
direct experience in applying the methodology to a problem
of current interest.
OBJECTIVES:
To develop sufficient understanding and skill through
lectures and practice in applying Systems Dynamics principles
and techniques so that attendees will be able to:
a) Decide confidently when the use of the Systems
Dynamics methodology would be beneficial in analytic or
management problems,
b) Evaluate effectively the potential capabilities and
limitations, and other factors of importance, which foreign
and domestic organizations are likely to encounter when using the
Systems Dynamics methodology, and
c) Communicate intelligently with the representatives of
organizations who are using the Systems Dynamics methodology to
study important problems, e.g., natural resource-trade flow
relationships.
ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY
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ELIGIBILITY:
Officers whose responsibilities may require a knowledge of the Systems
Dynamics methodology. No previous technical or scientific education or
training is necessary.
DATE AND TIME:
30 September through 18 October 1974, 0900-1600 hours, three weeks,
full-time.
LOCATION:
4600 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia (Chamber of Connerce Building,
Room 902. Administrative information, including details on parking of
private vehicles, will be mailed directly to accepted students.
REGISTRATION:
Form 73, "Request for Internal Training", must. be submitted to
OTR/FTD/ISTS, Room 616, Chamber of Commerce Building, by 13 September 1974.
These requests will be submitted through the Training Officer and through
the Cover and Commercial Staff, as personnel of other Intelligence
Community agencies will attend this cours For information on STATINTL
re istration and/or course content call
1 OTR/FTD/ISTS, Extension
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