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UVA Center Helps Managers Work Together
Newspaper article written shortly after Warfield started his Interactive Management Center at University of Virginia.
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Valid and Spurious Conflict Resolution Theory
Talk given at a Colloquium sponsored by Center for Study of Race & Ethnic Relations, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 1 November 1989.
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Variant Design Process, RRM Joint Application Development (JAD)
An Interactive Management Report from a workshop sponsored by a consortium of several automobile manufacturing companies, including Ford Motor Company. The purpose of the consortium was to develop generic auto manufacturing standards, to be used across the entire industry. There was a total of 81 problems, 42 of which were selected and used to generate a problematique. The report contains the problematique. Includes three photographs (photocopies of photos) showing the workshop in progress, with participants…
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Variant Design Process, RR Vertical Coherence in Three-Level Organizations: Organizing to Manage Complexity
An abstract, title page and copies of 16 transparencies used during talk. . Presented at ITESM Campus, Chihuahua, Mexico, 7 April 1999 and in Monterrey Mexico on 8-9 April 1999.
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Vertical Incoherence in Three-Level Organizations
Transparencies presented at Ford Motor Company, Avely, U.K. on 5 July 1999 and at UKSS conference, Lincoln, U.K. 9 July 1999. The same transparencies were used during a talk titled “The Science of Complexity” at Ford Motor Company in Aveley, two days before the UKSS conference. See, "The Science of Complexity and How it translates into Interactive Management Work.”
Author's presentation notes for Complexity lecture 12, the closing event of a 1998 Fall Semester "Complexity" series. Dr. John N. Warfield argues that it is time to revamp the education system in America. He proposes a new type of college he calls the “Horizons” college. Part of a series of 12 lectures on complexity given at the Johnson Center, George Mason University, this was third of a group of three lectures on the topic of…
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The Wandwaver Solution: Creating the Great University
An abstract, followed by an eleven-page precis of Warfield's thoughts on present and future university educational policies, in which he develops the ideas of earlier philosophers and educators and brings these ideas to bear on modern concepts of higher education. The report ends with a series of 25 Appendices. These appendices include previously written works by Warfield; some are complete papers and some are excerpted from his books or longer works.
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War and Peace as a Systems Problem: How can Technology Help?
Presented at IEEE-SMC International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, 8-9 October 1979, Denver, Colorado. Document or paper used for this talk is missing.
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IASIS Information Bulletin #06
Memo containing biographical information Warfield considered sending to Xintong.
Abstracts of a series of five invited lectures along with photocopies of the transparencies used by Warfield during the talks. Presented at Asociacion Argentina de Teoria General de Sistemas & Cibernetica, Buenos Aires, 7-10 April 1992.
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Warfield Publications on Complexity: Papers and Monographs Characterized by Themes, Books and Monographs, Bibliographies
A topical bibliography on the subject of complexity, with some titles falling within more than one category. The topics are: Applications, Education, Graphical Representations, Interactive Human Processes, Mathematics of Modeling, Organizations and Human Behavior, and Philosophy.
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Warfield's Organization of Literature
A guide to Warfield’s computer files and office shelves. Explains his system of naming and categorizing his work on complexity into subject headings. The manuscript later became one of five short articles which were combined into a report titled “Overview: John N. Warfield's 30 Year Research Program on Complexity."
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