Results of Interactive Management Workshop held in April and May 1995, for Center for Drugs Evaluation and Research and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Both of these Centers are part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Written in October, 1989 prior to the Great University Seminars, this document is a memorandum, or short philosophical statement on the meaning and purpose of university education, with references to ideas from Ralph Barton Perry and Russell L. Ackoff, among others. Folder also includes handwritten and typed notes by Warfield, dealing with the Great University project, and a photocopy of a paper by Jacques Derrida titled: "The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes…

A study of the different kinds of detractions that are at work in system design and how they affect design. Warfield classifies them into five types, each with their own variety of detractions. The five are: Individual, organizational/managerial, academic, professional, and social. Because most design activity involves more than one of these types, there is a high probability of bad design. A companion piece, “Oversight and Steering for Effective System Design” covers overcoming these detractions.…

A report on a workshop held at the University of the Aegean, Island of Chios, Greece, 24-27 August, 1988, organized by the University of the Aegean in cooperation with George Mason University. The report contains the `Chios Declaration' adopted by the conference. This Declaration, a document which addresses the human need to master complexity, was signed by 24 persons associated with the workshop. Nineteen people, from six nations were active workshop participants.

Discusses generic aspects of design and how they may be conceptualized and studied and introduced into learning processes. Interactive Management and its Options Field/ Options Profile processes are described, as useful tools for design. See also, “Relating the Blocks of the Cosmic Partition” a figure from this paper which would later be incorporated into the book A Science of Generic Design.

In this talk at a systems conference, Warfield discusses generic aspects of design and how they may be conceptualized and studied and introduced into learning processes. Interactive Management and its Options Field/ Options Profile processes are described, as useful tools for design, principles of which would later be incorporated into his book A Science of Generic Design. Presentation was at Annual Meeting Society for General Systems Research, Los Angeles, CA, 27-31 May 1985.

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Proposal to Ford Motor Company written in August 1993. Initially rejected, Ford eventually accepted Warfield’s proposal.

Copies of 70 different transparencies Warfield used for talks. This material was produced by Warfield in 1970 while he was in the employ of Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio. Later, much of this material was published by Battelle in A Unified Systems Engineering Concept, Battelle Monograph #1, 1972. See notes for the titles of included transparencies.

The aim of the project was to "engage Ford Motor Company with a new process that can be gradually installed through substitution in Ford's present Process Improvement Process." In this report, Japanese management and manufacturing methods are examined and compared with Warfield's Interactive Management process. It concludes that, in spite of the success of Japanese management tools, Warfield's IM process was superior and should replace other methods. Report was the forerunner for a subsequent long-term…

This CIM Report was the basis for a talk presented by Alexander Christakis and David Keever at a National Science Foundation Design Workshop, supported by the NSF Design Theory and Methodology Program, and administered by Professor M. B. Waldron of Ohio State University. The workshop was held at Claremont Hotel, Oakland, California, 8-10 February 1987. The report was printed as a separate 69 page pamphlet.