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CIM logo described in Center's newsletter
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."
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Literature that may be relevant to evolution of QFD, Memorandum to Ford Project File
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.
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Primer Interloquium Primicias del Siglo XXI (Conference Announcement)
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).
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DSMC Study Folder: Group Work Support Facility Design
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."
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Notes on Meeting with Frank Fukuyama Re Teaching in MAIT Program
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.
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Propositions and Elaborations
A short, unfinished, thought-piece on the challenges complexity poses to humanity. Includes list of 10-11 propositions.
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Proposal: Narrative and Related Materials
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.
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Structuring Discursivity: A Field Representation
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…
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Cognitive Structure of Pascal Syntax & "Requires for Good Results"
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.
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1949 Veterans Administration Form, Notice of Training Status-Charlton Arms Apartments-Columbia, Mo
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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