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A collection of materials relating to a Short Course for The Institute of Public Policy (Course No. PUBP 850), presented at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. 12-16 January 1998.
Outline and list of transparencies of talk given at 4th Annual International Symposium on Industrial and Systems Engineers, ITESM, Campus Toluca, Mexico, 28 February 1997. Includes description of Interactive Management and examples of it application in different organizations.
Article submitted for publication to Systems Practice.
List of the titles of published and unpublished books and manuscripts.
Summary of three general categories for laws: Behavior (habitual, physiological, organizational), Communication Media and Mathematical Operations. Discusses the Twenty Laws of Complexity as subsets of these categories.
Catalog of Warfield’s work divided into four major categories: Infrastructure of Science, Science of Complexity, Application of the Science and Site of the Applications. Often given with “Warfield’s Organization of Literature.”
Transparencies used for talk that show the ways Warfield developed categories for explaining and portraying complexity. Presented at meeting of Chinese VIP visiting delegation held in Room E & F, Johnson Center, George Mason University, on 4 August 1998.
An email written by Benjamin Broome and edited by Warfield. Served as an informal guide for facilitators when working with a group session doing Interactive Management. See also, “Notations for Watching ISM Videos.”
Agenda for the International Systems Thinking Conference and Workshops, University of Cape Town, 4-11 November 1997. Includes list of transparencies Warfield planned to use. See also, Managing Complexity: An Interactive Management Workshop.
Titles of reports written by Institute for the Advanced Study of Integrative Science staff members 1983-1989.
First brochure issued for the new Center for Interactive Management. Describes services available. Includes logo Warfield designed.
These chapters contain the hard math used for Warfield’s Interpretive Structural Modeling algorithms. From John N. Warfield, Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity (1976; reprint, Salinas, CA: Intersystems, 1989).
Article written for a Festschrift dedicated to Charles François, an Argentine systems scientist and friend of Warfield.
Checklist of things to consider when planning an Interactive Management workshop. See also, "Preparing an Interactive Management Workshop Plan.
Report composed following lecture tour in China. Includes list of lectures given and names and backgrounds of others who had attended and given talks. Folder also contains hotel and conference schedules and names of Chinese friends and acquaintances.
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Covers work done between 1968 and 1991 to develop Warfield’s ideas of complexity and the management of complexity through group process design. Includes lists of: People involved, Organizations involved, Activities, Startups, Shutdowns, Time periods, Products, Interns, Perturbations, Sponsors, Major ISM sessions, Major software developments, and titles of 31 books/articles by Warfield which he refers to as "Key publications. “
Talk given to group of Chinese scholars and government officials that divides Warfield’s research on complexity into four time periods: Startup, Developmental, Integrative and The Future. Lists colleagues who have assisted, organizations and universities involved, and locations of major applications of the work. Incorporated as part of larger manuscript entitled “OVERVIEW: John N. Warfield's 30 Year Research Program on Complexity.”
Describes dissemination of Interpretive Structural Modeling into Japanese management, from 1974-1982. Includes annotated bibliographical and copies of 7 papers written by Japanese authors. Updated in 1986.
A lecture presented at Bell Northern Research Laboratory, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on 3 June 1993. See also, "Clanthink (PowerPoint Slides)," which was passed out at the lecture and contains copies of the transparencies used.
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