Interactive Management Spectrum: Consensus Methodologies

This is a set of 7 cartoon like figure drawings which depict Interactive Management in live action.

This is a set of 7 cartoon like figure drawings which depict interactive management in live action. Warfield first drew these pages about 1978, for use in the report titled Users Guide to Public Systems Methodology, 1980, 1982. It was printed as part of the Appendix to Warfield's presidential address before the Society for General Systems Research in Detroit, 1983, a paper which SGSR published in the 1982 YEARBOOK of the society. The table was used often in Workshops, lectures, reports by Warfield and also other members of the CIM staff at University of Virginia and at George Mason University. Pages from this cell pack were printed many times in reports and papers put out by CIM first at University of Virginia and afterward at George Mason University. A 1984 report (Overview of Interactive Management) authored and copyrighted by Alexander Christakis / David Keever includes the page 1Table only, titled Interactive Management Spectrum. This 9 page cell-pack is a nice graphics software version done about 1988 by Center for Interactive Management staff. David Keever had the graphics package ready for use in a presentation to Morphopolous, (a Greek financier who for a time was planning to bankroll Keever & Christakis in a new company outside of GMU). Later the seven flow chart drawings were published as center pages for the Appendix 3 Portfolios in Warfield's book A Science of Generic Design, 1990, 1992. ( I do not know any publication data for the page 1 table; perhaps it was used in one or more of Warfield's books/articles, or simply used as a lecture aid in classes. R.w. 22 April 2014) The old Center for Interactive Management computer files for these figure pages are still in existence somewhere, but we have no way of locating them. Even though we saved all the old CIM computer files we don't know the file names of these graphics, nor even what software produced them, although it was probably Ventura. Even if we found the computer files, we probably couldn't open them, because Ventura is no longer operable on our computers. So to save the cell-package, Rose Warfield scanned them all in 2007, putting them into PDF. The 9 pages in the cell-pack are: Interactive Management Spectrum, Ideawriting, Nominal Group Technique, Interpretive Structural Modeling, Delphi, Options Field, Options Profile, Tradeoff Analysis, The Nature of Consensus. r.w. circa 2011

 

 

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  • Category: Applications, Interactive Management (IM)
  • Size: 47 minutes
  • Type: Sound recording
  • Description: Correspondence
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