Today's leading authority on the subject of this text is the author MIT Standish Professor of
Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group John D. Sterman. Sterman's objective is
to explain in a true textbook format what system dynamics is and how it can be successfully
applied to solve business and organizational problems. System dynamics is both a currently
utilized approach to organizational problem solving at the professional level and a field of
study in business engineering and social and physical sciences.
