This document is in the Warfield Special Collection and also it was added to the Warfield digital collection at George Mason University. The GMU copy is the printout of Warfield's original manuscript sent to Argentina, which still had some typo errors. We don't have that manuscript, we have only the corrected computer file, identical except that Warfield had cleaned up the typos for the version he kept on his computer. This first manuscript, dated 18 November 2002 was in Microsoft WORD, because the Argentine editor asked for it to be sent in WORD. For teaching & lecturing, this paper “Seven Challenges” is useful because it is essentially an accompaniment to an existing PowerPoint Slide Show. Both the paper and the slide show are available at George Mason University Special Collection. The typed unpublished paper Seven Challenges is in Box 94, Folder 20; the 12 page slide show Middle Human Science--Seven Challenges is in Box 91 Folder 17 of Warfield Special Collection at Fenwick Library. The paper “Seven Challenges” was written in 2002 as a response to an invitation from Ernesto Grun, of Buenos Aires, Argentina to participate in a Festschrift volume to be published in honor of Charles Francois. For the Festschrift volume, Warfield sent Mr. Grun a short two-page article, titled "Charles François: Friendship, Dedication, and Wisdom". Warfield then received word that Grun actually wanted an academic paper, not a salutary one. So Warfield sat down again to do something for his old friend Francois, and wrote this SEVEN CHALLENGES paper while looking at the PowerPoint slides titled MIDDLE HUMAN SCIENCE--Seven Challenges that he had presented in China as the Bertalanffy Lecture at 46th Meeting of International Society for System Sciences 2-6 August 2002, Tong Ji University Business School, Shanghai, China. Basically the academic paper for Dr. Grun is what Warfield had already verbalized before his Chinese audience, but had not written down. Warfield sent his paper “Seven Challenges” to Buenos Aires, but his academic paper must have arrived too late, because when the Festschrift volume was printed, Warfield's originally conceived 2-page article in honor of Francois was printed, not his “Seven Challenges,” which remained unpublished, until 2008 when under the title "Seven challenges for information system designers" it was sent to Li Da Xu in 2007, when he asked Warfield to contribute to a symposia collection in Beijing. So Seven Challenges with a slightly different title was finally published in 2008. (See, “SYSTEMS INSIGHT: The Nineteenth Insight”) Warfield's unpublished Seven Challenges (2002) paper was donated to GMU in September 2007 shipment.
A much longer more fully developed version of this paper was published in 2007, at the urging of Jack Ring who asked Warfield to contribute an article to INCOSE newsletter Insight. Warfield's 2007 paper is titled: "A Challenge for Systems Engineers: To Evolve Toward Systems Science" a paper in 2 parts. Part 1 was printed in Sept 2007 and Part 2 was published in the next issue of INCOSE Insight, in January 2008. [In Box 99, Folder 1 of Warfield Special Collection]
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