When first printed, the manual was named “Systems Science Program Part 1.” Warfield later renamed it “Systems Science in a University Setting Part 1-Work Plan for Short Course.” It is a manuscript collection in a spiral bound 57 page booklet with a yellow cover. It was patched together from a number of other papers, plus possibly new fragments written by Warfield just for the short course. Warfield said that he had collected a lot of materials into a huge file on his computer called COURSEGRABBAG. Over the course of several weeks, in Spring 2007, he pulled from GRAB BAG the items which he finally assembled into the yellow booklet for use in the short course. Pages 1-3 of the manual is a 12-part outline of the short course divided into segments so that visitors could select the areas of most interest to them; Warfield would attempt to discuss those segments first. (In Warfield's numbering system on these pages, the capital letter "M" means Major topic, while the Arabic numerals refer to subtopics.) Pages 4-57 contain 39 different documents, mostly excerpts from a variety of Warfield publications and writings. All 39 are itemized in the "Contents" list at front of the manual.
Title and page number of each document is given:
Work Plan 1; The Problematique 4; The John Deere Problematique 5; Individual Participant Voting Patterns for Top 5 Problems in Importance ("Spreadthink Checkerboard Pattern") 6; Distribution of Participant Voting Across Selected Problems ("Spreadthink Longitudinal Pattern") 7; Values- Miller Index for 12 Projects in the Ford Motor Company circa 1995 8; Relevant Behavioral Pathology Studies 9; Inclusion Structure for Systems Science (Summary of the Complexicon) 10; Example of a Graphical Syllogism on a Problematique 11; The Aristotle Index of Complexity 12, 12a; Counting Syllogisms in a Cycle 13; Counting Syllogisms in a Linear Hierarchy 14; Analyzing the Sahel Disaster: An Example of Interlocked Syllogisms 15; Tabulated Values of Aristotle Index Ranked for Various Situations 16; Five Metrics of Complexity 17; SCI Computations 18 Ford SCI Data 19,19a; Organizing the Complexicon TM 20; Types, Origins, Computations of Metrics of Complexity 21; Summary 21; Insights from Division A of the Metrics Table 22; Insights from Division B of the Metrics Table 23; Insights from Division C of the Metrics Table 24; Insights from Division D of the Metrics Table 25; Insights from Division E of the Metrics Table 26; Insights from Division F of the Metrics Table 27; Voting Records July 11-14 Ford Workshop 28; Distribution of Participant Voting Across Selected Problems ("Spreadthink Longitudinal Pattern" for Ford Workshop July 11-14) 29; Values- DeMorgan Index for 12 Projects in the Ford Motor Company circa 1995 30; Values- SCI for 12 Projects in the Ford Motor Company circa 19951 31; Complexicon™ Outline 32; Structure of the Twenty Laws of Complexity 39; Categories of the Laws of Complexity 40; Appendix 1: Notes on the Ford "CULTURE" 5th Interactive Management Workshop, Dec., 1992 41; Appendix 2: Notes on the Ford PIMS Workshop Interactive Management Workshop, Jan., 1994 45; Appendix 3: Relationship Map, Teaching Fractions to Second-Grade Japanese Students 49; Appendix 4. Sustainable Mobility Technology (SMT) IM Workshop--Information is not here at present; Miscellaneous 51; Aristotle on Science 53; Abduction, Inference, Induction 54.
