PowerPoint slides to accompany a guest lecture in a Systems Design class taught by Dr. Antonio Rios. John Warfield presented the lecture by Picture Tel from Tampa, Florida to the class on the ITESM campus in Chihuahua, Mexico, 29 October 2001. For the video of this lecture see “Diseno y Practica de Sistemas” and for the transcript see “Managing the Unmanageable: Historical Overview, 33 Years of Research Described in 30 Minutes.”

A proposal submitted to the Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation. Warfield offers to teach a one-week short course on complexity. Proposal includes definition of the word “problematique” and its potential value in the field of economics. Short biographical letter attached.

A short essay likely designed to accompany a picture collection. Includes images of Aristotle and Aberlard, as well as a description of their intellectual contribution.

A manuscript version of chapter 14 of the Handbook of Interactive Management by Warfield & Roxana Cardenas. Warfield frequently used this for workshops and lectures. The chapter compares Japanese management and manufacturing methods with Warfield’s Interactive Management (IM) process and concludes that, despite the recent success of the Japanese management tools, Warfield’s IM process is superior. The chapter is an edited version of the technical report "Development of End-User Access Tools to the Science of…

Comparison of Japanese management and manufacturing methods with Warfield’s Interactive Management (IM) process that concludes that, despite the recent success of the Japanese management tools, Warfield’s IM process is superior. For further detail, see “"Chapter 14: Comparing IM With Methods Widely Used in Japan."

An abstract of a presentation titled “Seven Ways to Portray Complexity” which was presented for the George Washington University Notational Engineering Laboratory Seminar on 28 February 1996.

A set of transparencies created to accompany Warfield talk “Some Magnificent Academic Trusels and Their Social Consequences,” presented at 1992 Annual Meeting of the Association for Integrative Studies, 19-22 November 1992, Pomona, California.

A typed transcript of a telephone interview conducted by David Houpt for the Oral History Program at Special Collections & Archives George Mason University Libraries.

Videotaped sessions from an Interactive Management Workshop conducted at Defense Systems Management College (DSMC), Ft. Belvoir, VA held 17-21 June 1991, with a follow-up 28 June 1991 interview with Warfield. The IM workshop dealt with the management of purchases by the U. S. Department of Defense. ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS: a Ph.D. dissertation titled Redesigning the United States Defense Acquisition System. which is in George Mason University Library, shelved in Special Collections, Fenwick Library. Full descriptions of…

Four hours of a demonstration of an Interactive Management session. The first of two Congressional committee hearings on tribal issues, involving the use of IM.

A presentation and discussion about Interactive Management presented to an entrepreneur from New York who was planning to invest in a start-up company headed by Alexander Christakis. See also, "American Institute for Interactive Management (AIIM) Planning Session Transcript”

A set of two interviews of Alexander Christakis conducted by Benjamin Broome. Christakis discusses Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and the purpose of the George Mason Center for Interactive Management.