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CHINA Travel Report

Report composed following lecture tour in China. Includes list of lectures given and names and backgrounds of others who had attended and given talks. Folder also contains hotel and conference schedules and names of Chinese friends and acquaintances.
Covers work done between 1968 and 1991 to develop Warfield’s ideas of complexity and the management of complexity through group process design. Includes lists of: People involved, Organizations involved, Activities, Startups, Shutdowns, Time periods, Products, Interns, Perturbations, Sponsors, Major ISM sessions, Major software developments, and titles of 31 books/articles by Warfield which he refers to as "Key publications. “
Talk given to group of Chinese scholars and government officials that divides Warfield’s research on complexity into four time periods: Startup, Developmental, Integrative and The Future. Lists colleagues who have assisted, organizations and universities involved, and locations of major applications of the work. Incorporated as part of larger manuscript entitled “OVERVIEW: John N. Warfield's 30 Year Research Program on Complexity.”
Describes dissemination of Interpretive Structural Modeling into Japanese management, from 1974-1982. Includes annotated bibliographical and copies of 7 papers written by Japanese authors. Updated in 1986.

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Clanthink

A lecture presented at Bell Northern Research Laboratory, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on 3 June 1993. See also, "Clanthink (PowerPoint Slides)," which was passed out at the lecture and contains copies of the transparencies used.
Discusses Clanthink and its effects on organizations and group processes. Originally titled “Clanthink Assures Institutionalized Mediocrity” and sent to Short Circuit: The Newsletter of Engineering Empowerment for publication.
Unfinished talk that discusses cognitive viability. Includes series of tables and display pages intended as transparencies to be used with talk.
Talk presented at the NASA-ASEE Summer Design Workshop on Systems Engineering, 18 June 1979 Langley Field, Virginia.
Presented by Center for the Study of Race & Ethnic Relations, George Mason University, Fairfax, 1 Virginia, November 1989.
Exchange of letters between Warfield and Philip Lally that discuss previously published article by Warfield entitled "Corrective System for Minimizing TACAN-DME Spurious Radiation.”
Critique of “A Preliminary Framework for Urban Model Building” by B. Golden and A. Assad. Argues current model of urban design is flawed and ineffective. Asserts that methodology proposed by Warfield and others could be applied to produce a better model of urban design. Presented at International Working Conference on Model Realism, Bad-Honnef, West Germany, 20-23 April 1982. For more information please use https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-69208-6_53.
Introductory explanation of a series of three Interactive Management Workshops. Introduces and describes “indexes of complexity” and displays the Sigma Five Plus figure to outline the components of interactive Management. Presented at Science & Technology Policy Research Institute, Ghana Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, Accra, Ghana 7 January 1997.
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