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Different traditions help us ask different questions. Their differences matter.
Renaissance Solutions authored the fictional bike shop, model arithmetic and explanatory comparisons. No institutional graphics or exercise text are reproduced. Conceptual checks were recorded on 21 September 2026; public-release review remains part of the handoff.
The Open University is explicitly credited for the perspectives and boundaries approach and for the inquiry-model comparison. MIT's teaching material supports the stock/flow distinction. Donella Meadows is a source for the outlined Leverage room.
Where this comes from
- Introduction to Project Dynamics · slides 28–30
James Lyneis · MIT OpenCourseWare · 2012. Stock/level and flow/rate distinctions.
- Systems thinking and practice
The Open University · OpenLearn. Perspectives and provisional boundaries inform our reflection prompts.
- Mastering systems thinking in practice · Week 7
The Open University · OpenLearn. Different systems approaches and inquiry inform the model comparison.
- Leverage Points · Places to Intervene in a System
Donella Meadows. A reference for the outlined Leverage room, not a verdict on this shop.
The bike-shop case and numerical model are original illustrative exercises from Renaissance Solutions. These institutions have not endorsed this exercise.
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