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Distinguished Visitors Program (IEEE) 1998-1999
A publicity mailing from the Computer Society headquarters listing the names of all registered speakers, including Warfield.
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Design of Organizations-Outline of Chihuahua Talk
An outline of a talk which includes a list of 44 slides planned for use during the talk. For further detail, see “Design of Organizations,” a presentation before the V International Congress of Industrial Engineering held 17- 20 April 2002 at ITESM University, Campus Chihuahua, Mexico.
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MIT Design Structure Matrix Workshop Program
Program schedules and names from a September 1999 engineering workshop at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Warfield had been invited to attend and present a paper.
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Memorandum on University-wide Academic Initiatives
A collection of writings Warfield planned to work on in the future and two documents from university administration related to possible reorganization of curriculum and departments. See also, "A Two-Domain Theory of Action."
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Common Sense in the Stone Age
A talk in which Warfield cites the possible use of his manuscript “Structure Based Science of Complexity” as a possible aid toward the improvement of systems thinking by merging "social sciences" (Foucault’s term) with mathematical logic and the physical sciences. Plenary Presentation – United Kingdom Systems Society Annual Meeting, Lincoln Campus, University of Lincoln and Humberside, 7 July 1999.
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Breaking the Barriers
This edition of UNI Personnel Services newsletter, sent to Warfield by Robert Waller, includes an article on the workshop led by Dr. Donna Thompson, who used Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) to identify priorities for resolving career barriers which working women might encounter. Includes flowchart generated by the ISM exercise
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Nina Srinath to Rose Warfield
A letter from Nina Srinath, who worked in Warfield’s Center for Interactive Management at the University of Virginia as a programmer writing ISM software. The letter informed Rose Warfield of some of the ways ISM had been applied.
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Thomas Renckly to John Warfield
Letter from Thomas Renckly to Warfield about Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) software. Renckly later developed a workable version of the ISM software for an Apple computer. Includes Warfield’s handwritten notations.
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A View of the Science and Human Affairs Program
An in-house memorandum that analyzes the different categories of organizational goals and activities pursued by Battelle Memorial Institute, the reasoning behind these goals, and the time sequences or phases in which such goals and activities should be carried out. Written while Warfield was director of Science and Human Affairs Program at Battelle.
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Major Impacts from Recent Applications of Interactive Management
A chart/table depicting Center for Interactive Management contracts between April 1983 and March 1989. Alexander Christakis served as the director during these years and this does not include the work done while Warfield was director. Lists a total of 44 case studies.
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IASIS Annual Report for 1990
A working draft of a formal report to the George Mason University administration reviewing the activities, events, presentations, and other work done by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Integrative Sciences in 1990.
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Information About IASIS and CIM Frequently-Asked Questions and Answers
Answers to a series of frequently asked questions regarding the Institute for Advanced Study in the Integrative Sciences (IASIS) and the Center for Interactive Management (CIM). Example questions include “What research publications are available?” and “Are there courses, degrees or seminars relating to the IASIS activity?”
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