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Transcript of “Great University Seminar No. 2: Five images of the University,” presented at George Mason University, 30 October 1989. Guest speaker at this seminar was Professor Anita Taylor, of the Communication Department at George Mason University. See, “Great University Seminar No.2: Five Images of the University,” to listen to the seminar.
Transcript of “Great University Seminar No. 1: Professional Schools & the Great University,” presented at George Mason University, 18 October 1989. Guest speaker at this seminar was Dr. Coleman Raphael, Dean of the School of Business at George Mason University. See, “Great University Seminar No.1: Professional Schools & the great University,” to listen to the seminar.
Printouts of 20 PowerPoint slides and correspondence related to talk. It was a talk on overcoming complexity in organizations and prepared for 2 July 2003 presentation at INCOSE 13th Annual International Symposium Washington, D.C. Due to last minute schedule changes, the talk was never given.
Printouts of 11 PowerPoint slides used for the Bertalanffy Lecture. Lecture named for Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy an Austrian philosopher who was instrumental in the beginnings of systems studies and was a co-founder of the Society for General Systems Theory a forerunner of the ISSS. Presented at 46th Meeting of International Society for System Sciences 2-6 August 2002, JiaoTong University (and also presented at TongJi University Business School) Shanghai, China. See notes field for details…
With a Foreword by Walter J. Bogan, Jr., this is a summary of a two-year project for U. S. Department of Education, involving seven universities and research institutes, dealing with application of Interpretive Structural Modeling to Environmental Education. Appendix 1 lists all of the 12 resource and reference reports produced during the project, which was headquartered at University of Virginia under direction of John N. Warfield. See also Designs for the Future of Environmental Education,…
This is the first of a two-volume FINAL REPORT on this contract, published in 1980 by University of Virginia. This and the second volume, describe the application of Interpretive Structural Modeling to the goals of environmental education. A year later, the U. S. Department of Education issued a booklet bearing the same title. Both the 1980 and the 1981 publications should be studied for a full survey of the project, since their contents are not…
For use by teachers when planning environmental education curricula, emphasizing need for a wide, interconnecting systems approach, with descriptions of how interpretive structural modeling techniques can generate genuine systems training. This the second of a two-volume report contains lesson plans, or teaching units, for classroom work. Click here for Volume 1. Note that the U.S. Department of Education issued a booklet bearing the same title a year later. Their contents differ. For the 1981 version,…
An IM Report. The printed pages hold lists of Problem Statements from the workshop as well as Warfield’s handwritten notes.
Report from Interactive Management Workshop conducted for middle managers at NASPERS (National Press) a South African publishing conglomerate. Held at Ambassador Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa, 10-11 November 1997. Not saved independently but part of a larger document entitled “Notes on Trip to Cape Town, South Africa” which describes entire trip to South Africa.
An IM Report from the very first Ford Motor Company Workshop, held at Dearborn, Michigan 14-16 April and 23-24 April 1992. For videos of the Workshop, see “Ford Motor Company Powertrain Interactive Management Workshop #1.”
Papers and documents brought back from the Primer Interloquium conference held in Guanajuato, Mexico in 21-23 March 1994. Warfield’s Interactive Management processes were used as a framework for the conference sessions. See also “Comments on Two Future-Related World Issues”
As the title suggests, this is an overview of the Interactive Management process and it corrects some common misconceptions about IM. This document was added as an Appendix to every single Center for Interactive Management report.
A list of Warfield’s papers, likely in chronological order, from 1948 to 1990.
Exchanges between Warfield and Kevin Bausch, who joined with Alexander Christakis to create the “Institute for 21st Century Agoras.” The letters discuss Bausch’s request that John Warfield contribute copies of his work to the Institute for 21st Century Agoras Archive of Interactive Management.
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