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MGTS7523 (System Dynamics)

Potential topic areas for assessment project (problem statements)

July 2023

.    COVID-19 (cases, Vaccine management, Health vs economic tensions, supply chains)

.    Climate change

.    Pollution (water, air, soil)

.    Health care (smoking, obesity, addiction)

.    Resource management (fisheries, food security, overexploited resources, rodent plagues, shark attacks)

.    Resource scarcity

.    Tourism (sustainability)

.    Supply chain management (inventory loss / mismanagement / disruptions)

.    Business management

.    Human Resource management

.    Business disruption (e.g. Uber vs Taxi; AI/ML)

.    Traffic congestion

.    International Business (supply chains with import/export dependencies)

.    University revenue

.    Waste management / recycling

.    Mining

.    Renewables

.    Decarbonisation

Tips

1.   Focus on a topic that is close to your heart

2.   Focus on a topic that has a dynamic aspect:

.    There is an unwanted dynamic (e.g. increasing crime, decreasing job security) that needs addressing – this can include systems that are changing despite efforts to change it (e.g.  some disease rates are not changing despite efforts to reduce them).

3.   You must utilise actual dynamic data (see ‘Problem Articulation’ section) – dynamic data = ‘behaviour over time’ (also known as: temporal data, time-series data).

4.   Do not over complicate your dynamic hypothesis - The aim is to understand complexity, it is not necessary to develop a complex dynamic hypothesis.

5.   Do not oversimplify your dynamic hypothesis – it must have enough detail to capture the narrative covered in your Problem Articulation section.

6.   Look at linking system structure and system behaviour:

.    What is the behaviour of the key variables (exponential growth, linear growth, ‘goal seek’)?

.    Ask ‘what system structure causes this’?