Carrying out an ISM Exercise Using BRIMS to Produce a Problematique

Incomplete document. Possibly part of one of the four BRIMS guides. BRIMS is an acronym for “Bill Rodger’s Interactive Management Software” and used to differentiate it from the more academic version developed by Warfield. See, for example, “BRIMS Application Bulletin #02: Supporting Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM)” and “BRIMS Application Bulletin #01: Supporting the Nominal Group Technique (NGT).”


Found in leftover files of Warfield's computer documents, this is only two pages, and is possibly just a part of the 4 BRIMS user guides now in Box 11 of Warfield Special Collection at GMU. Warfield wrote his own User guide for BRIMS in December, trying to make it simpler and easier to use, this was just before a trip to Africa where the software was to be used in test tryout at a workshop or two he was conducting in Ghana. Bill Rodger, whose company wrote the BRIMS software, gave permission for Warfield to use it in the Africa workshop free of charge, in a temporary trial. The software was coded to stop working after a certain date, or something like that. The term "BRIMS" was invented by John Warfield to distinguish his "academic version" of the User Guide (which he wrote) from the commercial version which came from Canada. BRIMS is an acronym that represents "Bill Rodger's Interactive Management Software". Bill Rodger is the chief executive of a Canadian corporation called DESYMA, and the commercial name for the software package is "Synergistic Solutions". DESYMA is not responsible for any errors in this document.

 

Additional Info

  • Category: Software, User Guides
  • Size: 162 p & 624 p
  • Publication Year: 1997
  • Publication Month: 11
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