When it comes to affecting the performance of a system, these are the places to try to exert your resources.
- Tweak the Numbers - change constants & parameters (subsidies, taxes, etc)
- Buffers - change the size of stabilizing stocks
- Stock & Flow Structures - change how physical system nodes intersect
- Delays - change the length of times for behaviors relative to system changes
- Balancing Feedback Loops - change the strength of feedback loops relative to the behaviors they moderate.
- Reinforcing Feedback Loops - change the strength of gain-inducing loops.
- Information Flows - Change who does and doesn’t have access to info.
- Rules - Create incentives, punishments, constraints
- Self-Organization - Allow the system to to change its own structure.
- Goals - address the purpose of the system
- Paradigms - change the mindset in which the system operates, its goals, structure, rewrite the rules
- Transcending Paradigms - dunno. The source didn’t explain this enough