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Appeared in the Spring 1985 edition of the Center for Interactive Management newsletter Nexus. The logo shows two triangles linked together by CIM. A descriptive panel states that "The first triangle represents [Intelligence, Design and Choice] the three principal functions of managers, the second represents the three functions of a university, namely Teaching, Research and Public Service."
This is a description of the development of Interpretive Structural Modeling software along with a discussion of how it could be improved. Includes lengthy summaries of four published papers: : 1) Participative Methodology for Public Systems Planning 2) Unified Program Planning (Doug Hill, co-author helped with work to produce this paper) 3) Crossing Theory and Hierarchy Mapping 4) Effective Representations of Hierarchical Structures. Note that QFD is an acronym for Quality Function Development.
A brochure for the “Primer Interloquium, Primicias Del Siglo XXI,” held 21-23 March 1994. Provides overview of what was intended for the conference, names of principal organizers and officials behind the conference and short bios of visiting international speakers (including Warfield).
A list of reference materials Warfield used during Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) faculty training activities in 1991 and 1992. There is a much larger version titled "Self-Study Program Development Guides for Warfield Literature."
A memo containing a list of things Warfield wanted to discuss with Fukuyama if he was going to teach a course in Fukuyama’s MAIT program.
A short, unfinished, thought-piece on the challenges complexity poses to humanity. Includes list of 10-11 propositions.
A short description of Warfield’s work, contact information for persons familiar with it, and the citations of a few of Warfield’s published writings. It is part of a proposal to do a workshop for the NSF and is a response to a questionnaire from a NSF official.
An unfinished paper on the subject of complexity and the use of fields, or categories. The Field is divided into 12 topics, with numerous sub-topics listed under each. The 12 primary topics are: Human Beings, Language, Reasoning, Thought Leaders, Formalisms, Science for Complexity, Models and Modeling, Processes, Education, Organizations, Products and Analysts. Although the two are unrelated, the subject matter of this paper is similar to “Managing the Unmanageable: Structuring Discursivity for the Domain of…
A computer printout showing a one-page drawing of a structure which has four cycles. Eight or ten short paragraphs on the same page describe how to read the structure. Folded in with the drawing of the structure is a larger drawing of a gigantic flow chart titled: "Requires for Good Results." A caption label on this flow chart says "Generic Requirements Flow for Software Development and Maintenance That is Not Now Being Satisfied.” Likely part…

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Who is N. Bourbaki?

A fax message from Scott Staley to Warfield that includes copies from two reference materials which explain Bourbaki, the nom de plume of a group of mathematicians working in France.
Official Veterans Administration form filled out with data on Warfield giving subsistence allotment for graduate school training at University of Missouri, 1949. Includes Warfield’s army serial number.
A total of 61 mathematical “definitions.” A companion paper has 67 “theorems.” The two lists may be part of Warfield’s “Index to George J. Friedman's Constraint Theory.
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