Generic Design Science: Laws of Generic Design

Contains photocopies of 24 transparencies used as class material for courses taught by Warfield at Defense Systems Management College and also before other audiences. In 1991, at the time he was using these transparencies, he had assembled a set of twelve "Laws" to be used by persons applying Interactive Management to design problems. It is Number 4 in a series of four reports originating in 1990-1991 when Warfield created transparencies for use with faculty classes at Defense Systems Management College. Titles of the other three booklets in the series are 1) “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: an Overview.” 2) “Generic Design Science: Diagnostics.” 3) “Interactive Management Workshops: Planning for Success.” See also, “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: Front Material for Presentation Set.”



"Generic Design Science: Laws of Generic Design" contains photocopies of 24 transparencies used as class material for courses taught by Warfield at DSMC and also before other audiences. In 1991, at the time he was using these transparencies, he had assembled a set of twelve "Laws" to be used by persons applying Interactive Management to design problems. In Box 32 Folder 11 GMU Library has the BOOKLET by this title; it is a spiral or tape bound report derived from printouts of transparencies. It is Number 4 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 were distributed as audience handouts in the Ann Arbor 22 October 1991 presentation to THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING SCIENCES, at request of Ford Motor Company. The 4 reports had yellow, green white and blue covers.

What follows is the list of transparencies in the 1991 report. The titles are listed in the same sequence which they appeared in the printed booklet which John prepared for the DSMC contract, Title Page CELL IS MISSING: Generic Design Science: Laws of Generic Design, a Presentation. 1. Generic Design Science: Focal Areas; 2. Generic Design Science: Where is it Needed; 3. Generic Design Science: Methods of Fixing Belief (Peirce); 4. Generic Design Science: The Law of Universal Priors (CELL IS MISSING); 5. Generic Design Science: The Bennis Leadership Factors; 6. Generic Design Science: The Law of Triadic Compatibility (CELL IS MISSING); 7. Generic Design Science: Modes of Definition; 8. Generic Design Science: The Six Types of Relationship; 9. Generic Design Science: Seven Categories of Relation; 10. Generic Design Science: The Law of Validation (CELL IS MISSING); 11. Generic Design Science: Criteria for a Science of Generic Design; 12. Generic Design Science: The Law of Limits (CELL IS MISSING); 13. Generic Design Science: The Law of Gradation (CELL IS MISSING); 14. Generic Design Science: The Law of Success and Failure (CELL IS MISSING); 15. Generic Design Science: The Law of Requisite Variety (CELL IS MISSING); 16. Generic Design Science: The Law of Requisite Parsimony (CELL IS MISSING); 17. Generic Design Science: The Law of Requisite Saliency (CELL IS MISSING); 18. Generic Design Science: Primary Operations with Ideas; 19. Generic Design Science: Mean Values of NGT Parameters; 20. Generic Design Science: Mean Values of ISM Parameters; 21. Generic Design Science: Set Descriptors; 22. Generic Design Science: The Law of Inherent Conflict (CELL IS MISSING); 23. Generic Design Science: The Law of Structural Underconceptualization (CELL IS MISSING); 24. Generic Design Science: The Law of Uncorrelated Extremes (CELL IS MISSING). "Generic Design Science: Laws of Generic Design" is one of a series of four presentation packages prepared originally as components of the educational program conducted by Warfield in 1990-1991 on behalf of DSMC, under Defense Dept. contract MDA903-90=C0192, As per the contract, copies of these transparencies were submitted to Professor Henry Alberts, of Defense Systems Management College, on October 15, 1991. Later, the pages were printed in a spiralbound booklet, and distributed as a small IASIS monograph. The booklets were distributed in Warfield's 1991 presentation to THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING SCIENCES in Ann Arbor, AT REQUEST OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY The series originated in 1991, when Warfield created the transparencies for use with faculty classes for Defense Systems Management College. The four booklets in this series are titled: 1) GENERIC DESIGN SCIENCE AND INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENT: AN OVERVIEW, 2) GENERIC DESIGN SCIENCE: DIAGNOSTICS, 3) INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENET WORKSHOPS: PLANNING FOR SUCCESS, 4) GENERIC DESIGN SCIENCE: LAWS OF GENERIC DESIGN. (this last cell packet is outdated, and is no longer used).

Later Warfield updated the presentation package, and the material became "17 Laws of Complexity" which John discussed in his October 1993 "Structural Thinking - Silver Anniversary" paper, and also in his 1995 Systems Research paper titled "Demands Imposed on Systems Science by Complexity" and it was also printed as "Chapter 9. Briefs of the Laws of Complexity" in the May 1995 monograph "Complexity and Drummers" r.w. 9 August 2013.




Additional Info

  • Category: Generic Design, Interactive Management (IM), Teaching Materials
  • Size: 1956/08/22
  • Description: 1 Videocassette (VHS), sound, color, 1/2 inch, accompanying study guides, audiotapes
  • Publication Year: 1992
  • Publication Month: 09
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