• 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

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.

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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.

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Mapping and Modeling

• Intuitive icon-based graphical interface simplifies model building • Stock and Flow diagrams support the common language of Systems Thinking and provide insight into modeled business processes Click to Enlarge Screenshot  • Causal Loop Diagrams present overall causal relationships • Enhanced stock types enable discrete and continuous processes with support for queues, ovens, and enhanced conveyors • Model equations are automatically generated and made accessible beneath the model layer • Built-in functions facilitate mathematical, statistical, and logical operations • Arrays simply represent repeated model structure • Modules support multi-level, hierarchical model structures that can serve as “building blocks” for model construction

Simulation and Analysis

• Simulations "run" processes represented in models • Sensitivity analysis reveals key leverage points and optimal conditions • Partial model simulations focus analysis on specific sectors or modules of the model • Results presented as graphs, tables, animations, QuickTime movies, and files • Dynamic data import/export links to Microsoft® Excel

Communication

• Flight simulators and dashboards describe model components and facilitate manipulation Click to Enlarge Screenshot  • Input devices include knobs, sliders, switches, and buttons • Output devices highlight outcomes with warning flashers, text, graphs, tables, and reports • Storytelling supports step-by-step model unveiling • Causal Loop Diagrams present dominant feedback loops within structure • Sketchable graphs allow easy comparison of expected results with actual simulations • Export for NetSim support publishing and sharing model over the web using isee NetSim add-on software • Save as Runtime option creates full-screen, runtime models • Multimedia support triggers graphics, movies, sounds, and text messages based on model conditions • Model security features allow locking or password protection