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Reflections on Innovation and Complexity
Presented at the NASA Great Author Colloquium Topics in Engineering, Hagerstown, MD, 20 August 1998.
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Reflections on the History of Systems Engineering
This is a presentation packet of teaching transparencies used to accompany a talk given for NASA engineers, Ramada Inn, Hagerstown, Maryland, 30 July 1996. There is no manuscript for the actual talk given by Warfield. As a handout for the audience Warfield passed out copies of the booklet "Seven Ways to Portray Complexity" which shows examples of various structural models
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Relations and Decision Making
Noting the deficiencies of the English language, this is study of how to determine the forms of language to use with structural modeling, how to categorize and choose the elements of language best suited for varying situations. Janet Fertig, a graduate student at University of Virginia, presented this paper at the Pittsburg conference.
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Remarks on Social System Design
Outline of a seminar presented at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 18 April 1980.
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Reply to Don Steward's email on DSM history
An exchange of email correspondence from August 2000 between Don Steward and John Warfield regarding Warfield’s research. Includes annotation by Rose Warfield written in July 2002
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Report on Ford Motor Company Analytical Powertrain Interactive Management Workshop #1
The first formal report on the first Interactive Management (IM) Workshop done for Ford Motor Company, held in Dearborn, Michigan 14-16 April and 23-24 April 1992. A set of 10 VHS videos of this workshop are also available. See, “First Interactive Management Workshop on Design of an Analytical Powertrain, April 14-16, 1992.”
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Report to Dean Lyle Feisel of the Watson School, Suny Binghamton
Warfield served as an advisor regarding the installation of PH D programs at SUNY..
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Representing Complexity
A draft outline for a book. Includes contents page with titles for ten chapters and titles for the four sections of the book. Unwritten, except for transparencies from his “Contrasts" manual.
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Research Notes on Braybrooke & Lindblom
Handwritten notes on Braybooke and Lindblom. Also includes notes on work of Dror and general notes on Public Policymaking.
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Researchers on Complexity Ponder What It's All About
Reporter for the New York Times interviewed people from the Santa Fe Institute on complexity.
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Xuefeng, Song: Resume, undated
Resume of Xuefeng Song, who was sent by Chinese government to study under Warfield for a period of six months in 1999. His mission was to "learn all he could about complexity."
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