These three pages were distributed at System Requirements NASA Short Course, held at Holiday Inn 1776, Williamsburg, VA 15-20 September 1996. Ten basic ideas for change are listed. Bibliographic references are included for each of the authors mentioned: 1. Foucault’s Quality of Knowledge Conclusions, 2. Lasswell's Infrastructure Conclusions, 3. Peirce's Insights About Science,
4. Harary's Structural Mathematics, 5. Warfield's Interpretive Structural Modeling Process, 6. The Generic Design Science and Interactive Management, 7. The Infrastructure for Knowledge Development,
8. The Spreadthink Discovery, 9. Indexes of Complexity, 10. The Boulding Explanation for Low Intellectual Productivity.
A similar version, with the title changed from Basic Propositions for Change in Organizations to Basic Propositions for Change in Academia - and a few very minor changes in the captions on items 1,3 & 4 of the text, was used at the Annual Conference of A.I.S., in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in October 1996
