Presentation a full conceptualization the Interactive Management method. Descries in capsule form its important features, such as user participation, analysis of degrees of complexity, recognition of human roles, the triad of Content/Context/Process, the Sigma-5 concept, an improved situation-room design, and the use of seven specific Consensus Methodologies.

Warfield's evaluation of the ISM software package written under supervision of Cliff Saunders. Overall, Warfield found PRISM functioned reasonably well but several areas existed where he deemed the PRISM software as inadequate. Submitted to Defense Systems Management College, May 1991.

A review of the intellectual history presaging the development of the Interactive Management (IM) adaptation and use of structural graphics to display results of IM Workshops. See also, “The Problematique: Evolution of an Idea, (1998)” by John N. Warfield and George H. Perino, Jr.

Copies of pages from Warfield’s course notebook titled "Social Systems Design" which he taught at University of Virginia in 1979 Fall semester.

Warfield argues that "effective stakeholder participation is the only resort" for realistically attaining the goals of our political platforms, but "participation is only part of the answer; we have to enable our citizenship to function." Proceeds to describe Interactive Management using the seven Consensus Methodologies from the Center for Interactive Management at UVA as illustrations. Manuscript includes an outline of talk and copies of transparencies. An invited address presented at the Governor's Commission on Virginia's…

These are PowerPoint slides prepared for a videotaped lecture. A video of this lecture is available. This is the first in a series of 14 lectures called “Managing the Unmanageable.”

An unfished paper.

Explores the limits of written prose as opposed to graphical representation. Warfield asserts that scientific communication, e.g. the work of writing such things as technical reports describing a complex project or a complex situation is currently hampered by a reliance on prose (or as he calls it "linear prose"). Prose alone cannot effectively explain and display the complexities which much be dealt with in most modern management, government and engineering activities. He proposes that education…

A summary of work done by a small group discussing ways to develop music and arts education centers nationwide. The “Florentine Conference” was organized by Ray Evans Harrell, a New York City musical entrepreneur, a talented musician and voice teacher who wanted to experiment with Warfield's Interactive Management process in the field of music. See also, “Warfield to Ray Harrell, protesting bad IM Workshop plan, 15 March 2004." Conference held in Alexandria, VA, 25-27 May…

Defining a `metapolicy' as a policy for how policymaking will be carried out, Warfield discusses six important policymaking dimensions in which human behavior can constrain or restrict policy choices. The paper concludes with suggestions for unconventional methods, employing technology to support selected idea actions, to negate certain of these behavioral constraints. Presented at IEEE Conference on Cybernetics & Society, September, 1975, San Francisco, CA.

An introductory manual on structural modeling and group facilitation. The selections chosen for this manual came from Volume 2 of Designs for the Future of Environmental Education, 1980 FINAL REPORT, Contract #300-700-4028 submitted to Walter J. Bogan, head of Office of Environmental Education, U.S. Dept. Education. The manual was used as a handout in a course on Complexity and Interactive Management at George Mason University.

A general descriptive piece about the Interactive Management process, itemizing its distinctive features, and giving locations where the process is in actual use as a planning/management tool.