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Businesses must
change to survive and grow. Why?
- Once productive processes bow to new competition
- New markets challenge current methods
- Government regulation compliance adds work and costs
- Labor market shifts inspire new employee recruitment
and retention programs
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| "It is
estimated that more than 75% of reengineering
efforts do not produce targeted performance efforts."
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Barry Richmond,
Founder of isee systems |
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Change implies risk. What if the change
doesn’t work?
What if things get worse? If the pilot project fails, what
do we try next? |
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| iThink
offers a risk-free way to make decisions that drive business
improvement. iThink guides you and your business
team through the creation of models that simulate business
processes and scenarios; pointing out the impacts of a new
procedure or policy, and offering opportunity to fix
undesirable outcomes. Based on Systems Thinking, iThink
models serve as "practice fields", showing you outcomes that
could be painful, costly, or embarrassing if discovered in
reality. |
| "We estimate
iThink models helped the International Olympics
Committee save about $18 million on the Athens
Olympic Games." |
Peri Loucopoulos,
Professor,
The University of Manchester |
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| What if you radically
increased sales and marketing efforts without adding
network bandwidth? Website hits and download demands
would go up (good), networks would go down (bad).
iThink helps you identify key leverage
points for improving business performance without
losing sight of unintended consequences.
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| Going beyond spreadsheets and other
linear approaches to business planning, iThink
provides a whole system or big picture view of your
entire operations. These views are based on dynamic
modeling and Systems Thinking; all points of a
system are included and can be examined or changed
in any order. You avoid making decisions that have
negative impacts on seemingly unrelated processes.
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iThink is a powerful tool for communicating
interdependencies between processes and problems. Your
entire business team will understand the variables that
impact your business. Shared insight enables teams to work
together, further ensuring that decisions are fully
implemented and mitigating risk. |
| Use iThink to: |
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Reduce the risk of policy
or process change |
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Identify key leverage
points for improving business performance |
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Build models that simulate
your business |
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Create what-if scenarios
for decision support |
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Develop shared
understanding across functional teams |
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Learn More...
What's NEW in Version 9.1!
Read about new
features and
enhancements in
STELLA and iThink.
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| Mapping and Modeling |
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Intuitive
icon-based graphical interface simplifies
model building |
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Stock and Flow diagrams
support the common language of Systems
Thinking and provide insight into modeled
business processes |
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Causal Loop Diagrams
present overall causal relationships |
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Enhanced stock types enable
discrete and continuous processes with
support for queues, ovens, and enhanced
conveyors |
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Model equations
are automatically generated and made
accessible beneath the model layer |
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Built-in
functions facilitate mathematical,
statistical, and logical operations |
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Arrays simply
represent repeated model structure |
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Sub-models
support hierarchical model structures |
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| Simulation and Analysis |
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Simulations "run" processes
represented in models |
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Sensitivity analysis
reveals key leverage points and optimal
conditions |
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Partial model simulations
focus analysis on specific sectors of the
model |
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Results presented as
graphs, tables, animations, QuickTime
movies, and files |
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Dynamic data import/export
links to Microsoft® Excel |
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| Communication |
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Flight simulators and
dashboards describe model components and
facilitate manipulation |
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Input devices include knobs,
sliders, switches, and buttons |
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Output devices highlight
outcomes with warning flashers, text, graphs,
tables, and reports |
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Storytelling
supports step-by-step model unveiling
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Causal Loop
Diagrams present dominant feedback loops
within structure |
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Export for NetSim support publishing and sharing model over the web using
isee NetSim add-on software |
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Sketchable
graphs allow easy comparison of expected
results with actual simulations |
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Save as Runtime
option creates full-screen, runtime models |
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Multimedia
support triggers graphics, movies, sounds,
and text messages based on model conditions |
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Model security
features allow locking or password
protection |
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Windows:
233 MHz Pentium
Microsoft Windows™ 2000/XP/Vista
(English Version)
128 MB RAM
90 MB hard disk space
QuickTime |
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Macintosh:
120 MHz PowerPC or
any Intel-based Mac
Mac OS 10.2.8 or higher
128 MB RAM
90 MB hard disk space
QuickTime
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