In 1956 Jay W. Forrester began applying the principles of feedback and control to the study of economic and management problems. Forrester felt that work in the field was fragmented and focused on problems that would not provide the leverage required to achieve truly superior performance. Thus he pioneered the field of System Dynamics.
Since 1956 the field has grown, but more slowly than expected by most who have followed the work. In looking at the growth of the field we can generate a number of candidate hypotheses.
