Warfield presented a lecture at National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, in Ann Arbor, Michigan October 22 1991 at request of Ford Motor Company. Representatives from three or four major manufacturers were at this NCMS meeting, which had as its focus the ideal of a growth of shared basic knowledge in the nation's industrial and manufacturiing culture, to the benefit of the nation and commerce as a whole. Warfield's presentation was titled "Generic Design Science and Interactive Management, Overview." He distributed as an audience handout, a booklet with exactly the same title as his lecture: "Generic Design Science and Interactive Management, Overview".

In Box 32 Folder 19 GMU Library has the BOOKLET by this title; it is a spiral or tape bound report derived from printouts of transparencies. It is Number 1 of a series of four small reports originating in 1990-1991 when Warfield created transparencies for use with faculty classes at Defense Systems Management College. The four small reports had yellow, green white and blue covers. Titles of the four booklets in the series are 1) “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: an Overview.” We called this booklet “GDS & IM OVERVIEW” for short. 2) “Generic Design Science: Diagnostics.” 3) “Interactive Management Workshops: Planning for Success.” 4) “Generic Design Science: Laws of Generic Design.” (outdated, not in use). In the years following 1991 these little reports were used often in workshops and lectures, distributed to audience and visitors until they were out of print. The most popular one was No. 3, Planning for Success. A big white 3-ring note binder with the original transparencies inside was donated to GMU in year 2000 and is in Fenwick Library Warfield Special Collection in Box 75, under the title ""Generic Design Science & Interactive Management," Overview, Diagnostics [Transparencies], 1994" In addition to above transparency sets, there is an unfinished 1989 6 page manuscript titled “Overview of Generic Design Science.” . It had no specific connection to any of the above booklets, but perhaps was a forerunner to the transparencies.

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