Official title of the report: Workshop on Consensus Methodologies [presented to] Saudi Arabian National Center for Science and Technology (SANCST). Final Report submitted to National Science Foundation, Washington D.C. Contract #R-783, Req. #AK-SAG-26.

The workshop took place 13-17 December 1980, in Ryadah, Saudi Arabia, under the joint sponsorship of SANCST and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Warfield was assisted during the workshop by Robert Waller and Kazuhiko Kawamura. The ISM session was conducted by use of the mainframe computer at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, in a long-distance telephone connection. See also a companion manuscript titled: Strategic Planning for Saudi Arabia: Sigma 5 Meetings and Consensus Methodologies. Original documents of both these Saudi Arabian manuscripts were kept in our home basement file cabinet, along with other papers and correspondence concerning Saudi Arabia and the consulting work which Warfield did for them from 1979 through 1982.

NOTE: In 1997, we are attempting to sequence the early IM workshops. This Saudi workshop, while not the first, was one of the earliest ones. Warfield says he thinks that the very first IM workshop was done by Robert Waller, with the City Council of Cedar Falls, Iowa, in the early seventies. Robert published a paper about it, I think, I must look it up., Also in the early seventies, K. Kawamura and a Battelle team did some workshops in Louisiana, and there also ISM sessions some run at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio.

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