“What is your SDory, Ken Cooper?”

Kenneth “Ken” Cooper has led hundreds of applications of System Dynamics modeling efforts for over 50 years with a total value of a quarter of a trillion dollars. He was President of Pugh-Roberts Associates, Managing Partner of PA Consulting and the founder of Cooper Human Systems. Ken is a two-time Edelman Laureate and a System Dynamics Society Applications Award winner. He is currently retired but works on select consulting projects. He earned his bachelors at MIT, studying under Jay Forrester, and his masters at Boston University. Transcript: https://bit.ly/SD-cast-Ep8-TranscriptEndingKen and I continued chatting about my research interests so I cut that part out. If you would like to meet and talk to Ken and other SD practitioners, please sign up for the System Dynamics Society’s 2021 Fundraising Event for the Student Chapter! The first WPI System Dynamics micro-course, System Dynamics Fundamentals is now available. You can read more of Ken’s bio in the document linked below:https://bit.ly/Ken-Cooper-2021-BioKen allowed us to share the following document “Finding Better Treatments Faster: How System Modeling Can Help Advance Human Disease Research”Below are links to more videos and articles of Ken’s work with Mastercard, Litton, Fluor, Hughes Aircraft, and the NFL:Ken Cooper Interview Series (on YouTube) Now, here is a poem I wrote about Ken Cooper:Ken CooperIs really super-duperHe and his team's work at Pugh-Roberts are one of the fewFinalists and winners of multiple awardsTheir wiSDom and going the extra yardCan help teams improve their recordsSo learn from their work with MasterCard,the NFL, Litton, Hughes Aircraft and FluorAbout litigation and mitigation (dispute no more!)Because lawsuits can leave one destituteSo we must be ready to be able to executeA plan to ensure a project's survival(And recognize the rework cycle)Ken now models the dynamics in a human body (Cells, neurons, glucose, insulin and antibody)To succeed one must persevereDo not fall prey to doubt and fearTo make modeling problems easier than they seemFind a champion client and join a strong teamThank you for listening to SD-cast. Please subscribe to SD-cast to hear more SDories.Email me, [email protected], if you would like to be on SD-cast or recommend someone.  See below for the WPI SD Social Media accounts:https://twitter.com/WPISDclubhttps://www.linkedin.com/groups/1916314/Sign up for the WPI System Dynamics Club mailing list: https://bit.ly/WPIsdMailFormMusic:Intro and End“Limelight” by Podington Bear is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. I cut and moved the music track to fit the intro and ending.https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Haplessly_Happy/Limelighthttps://creativecommons.org/lic