Case studies

A multinational US-based automaker was considering altering the company’s strategy and business model in the face of changing realities. A resilience and innovation gap can grow into an existential risk. Statistics show that companies are six times more likely to go bankrupt today than 40 years ago. Today, the car ownership model is gradually being replaced by a model where a vehicle is a service. In view of this, the automotive company declared itself not a manufacturer anymore, but a mobility company.

In 2008 there were three huge companies in the telecommunications market in Argentina. Each company wanted to enter the markets that they hadn’t covered yet, but the consequences of such actions had to be estimated. That’s why Telefónica decided to employ Continente Siete, a consulting company, to build a model of the market using AnyLogic multimethod simulation software.

Over the past 60 years, the number of Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill (SPMI) patients in the US living in the community increased. Yet a growing minority of people with severe illness are worse off because they are homeless or incarcerated. In this case study, IBM Global Research and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals used an agent-based approach to model these remarkable swings.

The challenge of reducing the cesarean delivery rate has been recognized by numerous researchers for years. For the first time, in research conducted for the Washington State, Alan Mills, FSA MAAA ND, a research actuary, and his colleagues reproduced this part of the United States healthcare system in a simulation model to allow the stakeholders, including health agencies, insurers, clinicians, and legislators, to test their assumptions on the model to find the right solutions.

Sustainable bicycle transportation systems have generated broad expectations and have recently attracted focus in the scope of urban planning by alleviating traffic congestion and reducing noise and air pollution. Such bike sharing systems are easy-to-use and generally promoted by the public administration, operating by advertisement companies, transportation operators and, and public organizations.

European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) is an organization that deals with the decentralization of energy systems on various territories, and promotes renewable energy sources. Localized energy systems, unlike classical ones, do not need to transmit electricity over long distances, as they are located close to the load they serve. Being less hierarchical, they provide the prospects of power storage, renewable energy inclusions, and demand forecasting. EIFER engineers chose AnyLogic simulation modeling to find out how the localized systems should be planned and operated.

Issues such as whether households get enough food, how it is distributed within the household and whether that food fulfils the nutrition needs of all members of the household is an ongoing problem in developing countries. An International Civil Agency employed a Major Consulting Firm to analyze food insecurity in developing countries and cultivate a system that enables an economy to prepare for and halt possible food insecurity.

IBS Group, the leading software developer in Central and Eastern Europe, was approached by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia to conduct the project, “Development of an Analytical System for Forecasting the Demand in Skilled Professionals in Russia’s Economy.” The aim of the project was to create an analytical system, which could help the Ministry plan for the subsidization of higher education from the federal budget.

Moscow State University supercomputer “Lomonosov” predicted social and economic development of Russia for the next 50 years. The evaluation was based on a model created in AnyLogic and data taken from Russian official sources.

Behavioral economics is a method of combining components of economics and psychology to understand human behavior. Researchers at Astellas Pharma, using AnyLogic simulation software, applied this new method of analysis to understand how team size and task variation affected trust and productivity.