Consulting and Training Partners
Consulting and training partners use iThink and STELLA in engagements with their clients or in their training workshops. Below is a list of partners by geographic region.
In the United States In Europe In Asia Pacific In Central and South America
In the United States
Advance Management Group helps organizations surface and sustainably improve the behavior of complex systems and processes. Its group of interdisciplinary professionals assists leaders in operationalizing insights using system dynamics principles and tools like STELLA and iThink from isee systems in order to advance toward creating the future they want for their organizations, one step at a time.
Location: Rochester, Minnesota
Contact:
Jim Rogers Managing Director rogers.james@amgresults.com 507-289-4680
Apogee Informatics Corporation is a next generation tool builder specializing in the field of monitoring, instrumenting and forecasting patient flow for hospitals. Our solutions provide hospital managers with near real-time information about the constantly changing flow of patients and the expansion/contraction of departments within the hospital in response to changing volumes.
Our principals have extensive experience in modeling and simulation, medical applications, bioinformatics, advanced pattern recognition and productivity enhancement in the healthcare environment.
Location: Madison, Alabama
Industry Focus: Hospitals and healthcare providers
Jim Bailey VP Business Development Jim.Bailey@apogeeinformatics.com 865-560-9485
Bruce Hannon & Associates specializes in mediated and group model-building to help organizations find solutions to complex business issues and learn through the modeling process. Our work spans across fields and industries such as pharmaceutical, engineering, environmental and energy.
Bruce Hannon is the author of many research papers and books for practitioners of the dynamic modeling process. His well-known series Modeling Dynamic Systems (Springer-Verlag NY, 1997-2008) offers examples of his work applying dynamic modeling to a wide range of disciplines including environmental, health, economic, and business management systems.
Location: Urbana, Illinois
Geographic Focus: Midwestern United States
Bruce M. Hannon Consultant and Jubilee Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign bhannon@illinois.edu 217-621-4900
Lexidyne specializes in framing, quantifying, and answering specific business questions using the principles of Dynamic Modeling and systems analysis. Our customized models offer a unique way for our clients to integrate data and institutional knowledge, analyze marketplace dynamics, and quantify the expected impact of strategic decisions.
Lexidyne works extensively in the the pharmaceutical industry, specializing in models of patient flow dynamics, physician adoption/prescribing behavior, and portfolio planning. Other areas of focus include supply chain dynamics as well as training in specific system dynamics simulation tools.
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Corey Peck Managing Director info@lexidyne.com 719-266-9009
Pontifex Consulting helps individuals, organizations and communities develop strategic solutions to complex issues. We have extensive experience in strategic planning, Systems Thinking/System Dynamics, group facilitation, and statistical/process analysis to facilitate development of solutions that are effective and actionable- linking long range strategic objectives to the daily operations of the organization.
For over 15 years, Pontifex has provided consulting, training and coaching to help build skills in applying the Systems Thinking framework and tools. We work with both private and public organizations in fields such as aerospace, environmental non-profits, healthcare, manufacturing, retail suppliers, and technology.
Location: Hanover, New Hampshire
Chris Soderquist Pontifex Consulting pontifexconsult@gmail.com 603-653-0228
Simulation Associates specializes in strategic thinking simulations that are used by organizations to provide a whole organization perspective, integrate information, build teamwork, and play out the effects of business environment changes.
With a special focus on the health care industry, Simulation Associates has developed strategic simulations for hospitals and health systems, health insurance companies, multispecialty physician practices, and safety net provider organizations.
Location: Boyertown, Pennsylvania
Industry Focus: Health care
Bruce Gresh, PhD gresh@simulationassociates.com 610-689-5903
Systems Thinking Collaborative specializes in improving organizations’ abilities to manage their most complex issues. Whether your organization faces a difficult call to change, a strategic fork in the road, a difficult team dynamic, or a persistent operational problem, the Systems Thinking Collaborative can help your team understand the situation, to create enduring solutions for your success.
Services include applied systems thinking workshops, facilitation and team development, remote coaching, collaborative dynamic modeling, and learning laboratory development.
Location: Eastern Massachusetts
Rebecca Niles Partner niles@alum.mit.edu 617-504-3797
ViaSim specializes in the development of modeling tools for supply chain managers, project managers, and other decision makers that need access to powerful modeling tools in a user-friendly format. As an example of our applications, please see the free version of Beer Game on Steroids or the trial version of our project planning tool, pmBLOX.
Location: Dallas, Texas
J. Chris White President jcwhite@viasimsolutions.com 972-722-9255
Systems Thinking in Schools is a Waters Foundation Project that provides training and resource materials to K-12 teachers and administrators.
Location: Portland, Oregon
Geographic Focus: United States , The Netherlands , India , and Singapore
Elizabeth Avila eavila@pps.k12.or.us 503-679-5309
Workforce America Company help clients improve their profitability by providing insight into issues facing them through simulation and modeling, data mining, dashboard development, and predictive analytics.
Location: San Jose, California
Industry Focus: Workforce America primarily serves the electronics industry. Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, such as Autodesk, Flextronics, Intel and Unisys as well as many small and medium sized companies.
Peiman Amoukhteh info@workforceamerica.com 408-647-1223
Whole Works Consulting uses dynamic modeling and simulation to help clients see and experience how their business works as an interconnected system, enabling them to accelerate growth and create value.
Location: Manchester Center, Vermont
Industry Focus: Whole Works has worked with medium-sized companies to transnational corporations in a broad range of industries.
Matt Mayberry Consultant mayberry@wholeworks.com 802-768-8338
In Europe
Bioteams Design develops business simulation games for corporate leadership development events and predictive simulations for business planning. Pre-built business games and simulators can be easily tailored for a specific event and include Change Management Game, Risk Management Game, Sales Performance Optimizer and Business Social Media Simulator.
Location: Belfast, UK
Industry Focus: Large/medium-size enterprises in Retail, FMCG, Banking and Technology sectors
Ken Thompson Principal Consultant ken.thompson@bioteams.com +44 (0) 7714700010
Buroos is a consultancy specialized in systems thinking and system dynamics modeling. Our modeling efforts are aimed at the final project goal however, we also focus on the learning process in complex matters for our clients. As a result, we facilitate our clients in solving their future issues independently.
Location: Goirle, The Netherlands
Industry Focus: Profit and non-profit organizations in various industry sectors ranging from small businesses to large multi-national companies and government organizations.
Egbert Roos Principal Consultant egbert.roos@buroos.nl +31 (0) 13 530 0801
Complexio develops decision support tools and simulation models using system dynamics. We define ourselves as facilitators who help organizations and individuals understand complex situations and find adequate solutions by developing simulation models.
We are involved in research projects in France and other European countries and foster partnerships with private companies to put together skilled teams that best suit our projects. Complexio also provides training courses using STELLA software.
Location: Paris, France
Valerie Gacogne valerie.gacogne@complexio.eu Land: +33 (0) 9 70 40 73 73 Mobile: +33 (0) 6 26 26 93 73
Impact Dynamics Limited is a management consultancy specialising in Value Management and passionately committed to helping our clients optimize performance outcomes from change initiatives. We use system dynamics for strategy development and benefits management by modelling causal relationships between performance drivers in a Balanced Scorecard and dynamically linking these measures to programmes. Our work within organisations spans from continuous BAU operational improvement to complete business transformation.
Impact Dynamics also offers action learning training in system dynamics, designed to deliver financial returns and enable our clients to repeat success.
Our book Value Management: Translating Aspirations into Performance, published in 2011, is on the isee systems recommended reading list.
Location: London, UK
Industry Focus: All sectors, with current particular focus in Banking and Finance, Manufacturing, IT and Network Services
Roger Davies Managing Director rogerhdavies@btinternet.com Phone: +44 (0) 1252 836933
LISTO bvba is an independent company that specializes in delivering technology and management consultancy services to the energy business and science and technology sector worldwide.
Location: Waasmunster, Belgium
Geographic Focus: Worldwide
Industry Focus: Energy Business, Science, and Technology sectors
Luc Van Den Durpel M. Sc.Eng, M. Nucl.Eng, PhD, MBA info@listo.de +32 03 2967018
Overmind builds optimization solutions in support of decision making. We principally use dynamic modelling and simulations to help clients improve performance and minimize global risks. Our main service offerings concern Strategic Planning, Optimal Strategy, Value Management and Global Risk Assessment. Overmind Dynamic offers a suite of pre-built simulations that provide hands-on experience and a powerful learning tool for business managers and executives.
Gilles Legrand gilleslegrand@overmind.fr Land: +33 (0) 952 535 881 Mobile: +33 (0) 6 62 56 62 99
Patrice Salini is a specialized consultant and researcher in the fields of transport economics, strategic management and system dynamics. As an experienced STELLA/iThink modeler and Associated Professor for Université Paris-Sorbonne and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Patrice can provide support for system dynamics models and studies.
Location: Palaiseau (near Paris) France and Pianottoli-Caldarello (Corsica)
Industry focus: Transportation, logistics, economic studies, and healthcare.
Patrice Salini patrice.salini@wanadoo.fr Phone: +33 16 0109830
The Symmetric SD team, which includes Professor Eric Wolstenholme (one of the leaders in the application and development of System Dynamics over the past 35 years), have extensive experience and a proven track record in the successful usage of System Dynamics within the public sector. Symmetric SD's clients range from the Department of Health, National Institute for Mental Health England , Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts and Local Government organizations. Symmetric SD offers a range of services including: simulation and system dynamics model development, training in systems thinking and system dynamics, systems thinking supported project management, whole system change management, learning environment/microworld development and usage.
Location: Brighton , United Kingdom
Geographic Focus: United Kingdom
Industry Focus: Health and social care sectors
David Monk Director info@symmetricsd.co.uk +44 (0) 1273 564 560
transentis helps companies transform their business by designing innovative business models and aligning their business processes and IT-systems. transentis core competencies are enterprise architecture and transformation management.
Location: Wiesbaden , Germany
Oliver Grasl Managing Director oliver.grasl@transentis.com Phone: +49 (611) 900 9951
The Whole Systems Partnership uses qualitative and quantitative system dynamic approaches to explore the impact of new policies and strategy implementation programmes. The work complements the broader work of the consultancy in partnership and strategy development. Training courses in the use of iThink software are provided as open public courses and directly to clients in-house.
Location: North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Industry Focus: Primarily in the health and social care sectors
Peter Lacey Peter.lacey@thewholesystem.co.uk +44 (0) 1423 340 585
In Asia Pacific
Dynamic Operations helps people build models. Constructing and exercising models helps to develop a deep understanding of problems of a complex/systemic/dynamic nature encountered in everyday life and business. This understanding is much easier to communicate using well designed and concise models. Our staff is among the most passionate and experienced users of iThink and STELLA in the Asia Pacific region. Our services cover the complete range from sales and technical support to high end consulting. We are keen to facilitate the uptake of Systems Thinking and System Dynamics in schools, universities and business.
Location: NSW, Australia
Geographic Focus: Asia Pacific Region
Mark Heffernan info@dynamicoperations.com.au Local: 0407 946 111 International: +61 407 946 111
Enzyme Group helps organisations to rapidly discover, innovate and deliver improvements. Through partnerships with leading Universities, simple and effective research, tools, techniques and methodologies are deployed that not only deliver significant increases in value but also enable relevant, experiential sustainable learning.
Location: Sydney and Melbourne Australia
Geographic Focus: Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia
Prof Kevin Austin Kevin.Austin@enzymegroup.com.au Local: (02) 9437 9400 International: +61 2 9437 9400
Evans & Peck has 20 years experience in providing strategic consulting services on systems modeling problems, and software support for iThink and STELLA.
Location: Chatswood, NSW, Australia
Geographic Focus: Asia Pacific rim
Industry Focus: All industry and service sectors
Derek Burrows dburrows@evanspeck.com + 61 2 9495 0500
New G Research and Consultancy stands for a new generation provider of computer software for medium and small scale enterprises, micro-finance providers and bank remittance. It also develops customized STELLA models for agriculture especially in the area of pest management and post harvest operations. It can provide training on Systems Thinking using STELLA and assist in problem analysis including statistical analysis.
Location: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
Geographic Focus: Asia
Industry Focus: Banking and agriculture sectors
Edwin A. Benigno, PhD edwin_a_benigno@yahoo.com Mobile phone: +63 915 929 0288 Landline: +63 49 536 1427
In Central and South America
OMN The Simulation Company is a consulting firm that specializes in Systems Thinking, simulation, complexity and strategy. We develop customized Management Flight Simulators for all types of businesses in Latin America and Spain . These tools are used to aid decision making and in training workshops. We provide training workshops on various subjects, including complexity and strategy, Systems Thinking as a tool for decision making, modelling and simulation, and balanced scorecards.
Location: Buenos Aires and La Cumbre, Argentina
Geographic Focus: Latin America and Spain
Sergio Krupatini skrupatini@omn-net.com Phone: +54 11 4942 4564 (Buenos Aires) Phone: +54 3548 492 067 (La Cumbre)
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