The final report for Grant No. ENG75-17609, submitted to the National Science Foundation Division of Grants & Contracts, Post-Award Branch. This is the 2nd of two reports differing in content but having the same title. This report, prepared for the use of persons already knowledgeable about ISM but unaware of the various applications of the process, contains a bibliography of papers on ISM applications and theory. See also, “Extensions of Interpretive Structural Modeling: A Report…

An annual report for Grant No. ENG75-17609, submitted to the Systems Theory and Applications Program, Engineering Division, National Science Foundation. This is the 1st of two reports differing in content but having the same title. The purpose of the NSF grant was to provide a survey of the uses and applications of ISM. See also, “Extensions of Interpretive Structural Modeling: A Final Report to the National Science Foundation, 2.”

A series of internal memos written between approximately 1983 and 1988 that deal with the facilitation of Interactive Management Workshops. Includes Warfield’s instructions to Alexander Christakis on areas of facilitation that need improvement, a review of Christakis’ activities as supervisor to other facilitator trainees and Warfield’s handwritten notes.

Discusses the planning of an Interactive Management workshop, including consideration of situation room design, choice of equipment, personnel, and triggering questions. Composed for class at Defense Systems Management College.

Information on Warfield’s books A Science of Generic Design, 2 ed., A Handbook of Interactive Management and Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity. Includes details on copyright ownership, name of original publisher, out-of-print status, current availability to buyers, synopsis of book, academic usage, types of manuscript or computer files and other materials available.

An analysis of management system known as “Direct Engineering.” Consists primarily of a three-page table (a Field Representation). Composed as a review of a Ford Motor Company report “Direct Engineering /University of Michigan Innovation Decision-Making Study.” See also, “Ford Motor Attributes Re Innovation.”

A Table of Contents for Warfield's intended workshop course on Mathematics of Modeling. See also, “Composite Index (part of Mathematics of Modeling), “Foundations of Thought. Pages 5-39 of Notebook #1 prepared for Mathematics of Modeling Workshop” and “The Mathematics of Modeling-Partial Draft.”

A review of work done at Battelle Institute's Academy of Contemporary Problems to develop and disseminate Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and its associated methodologies. Includes lists of persons associated with this effort, organizations and persons who requested and received information on the process, and ISM exercises held at Battelle during 1974. Problems of complexity are addressed by use of a set of methods consciously employed to help generate and structure ideas.

Report from Warfield’s first exploratory trip to Ghana in 1989. Recommended three things: 1) Ask the Koreans how they had accomplished the change from a communistic society to a successful capitalist system 2) Try to develop a pharmaceutical industry, working from the strong knowledge of herbal remedies already possessed by Ghanaians 3) Try to establish a contract research establishment in which scientific consultants from universities would be paid by Ghanaian industrial and agricultural enterprises for…

Warfield argues that “The ability for humans to view GRAPHICS DISPLAYS will replace the formerly needed ability to understand [differential equations]." His viewpoint on complexity, which he calls the “ “Structuring View,” is based on a formalism which will allow complex ideas to be learned by laymen. This means that a knowledge of difficult advanced mathematical skills is no longer a basic necessity for dealing with complexity.

One of 32 Ford Reports.

An itemized list (identification) of 97 attributes, with page numbers given for each. Part of failed project initiative at Ford Motor Company called Direct Engineering. See also companion document “Field Representation of Factors Affecting Innovation in Ford: The Case of Direct Engineering.”