Sent to GMU 27 September 2007 (the typed manuscript and the publisher's offprint - also 57 pages of draft manuscripts and study notes.) --------The manuscript for the "tutorial" part of the article was written in January 2007 and sent to Li Da Xu the journal editor, with arrangement that it be published in advance of a follow up article describing an application of methods described in the Tutorial article.
ABSTRACT written by Warfield: "Enterprise integration is a major global challenge of these times. It is now possible for a new generation of practitioners to engage this challenge selectively by applying a recently-articulated version of systems science (WSS). This tutorial paper argues that a half-century of disarray of the systems field can be seen as ending; and that the distillation of WSS to support a wide variety of application areas (in this instance, enterprise integration) can occupy practitioners as they harness The Work Program of Complexity (WPOC) selectively. Carrying out the WPOC yields predictable portfolio components, consisting of a well-defined mix of tangible and intangible products. The three causes of poor intellectual productivity identified by Kenneth Boulding are nullified when appropriate role matching is achieved between WSS and enterprise integration."
About this Tutorial, Warfield said in August 2007: “Before I wrote the Tutorial he (Li Da Xu) sent me 6 or 7 papers already published by other authors in other journals about the topic of Enterprise Integration. I read them all. They were awful, mostly by professors. They were so bad I wanted to throw them away. So what I did when reading those papers, I made some notes on Enterprise Integration process. I saw what questions the authors were studying, and I did all that before I wrote the Tutorial. That was my homework, so to speak.” Warfield explained that he was asked by Li Da Xu to write an article for the new journal, and in order for Warfield to know what the topic "Enterprise Integration" was all about, Dr. Xu sent to Warfield seven manuscripts from other authors who had been writing on this subject. Enterprise integration, it seems, is just a new term for the study of the theory of how to manage complex situations in a corporation or business. Warfield read all the papers and found them so out of touch with practical applications that he decided to write his own Tutorial on "Enterprise Integration" trying to inform and educate the readers of the journal toward more useful skills. His tutorial describes how the Warfield Work Program of Complexity is designed, and gives 3 examples of such designs including one used at Ford Motor Company. The tutorial closes with the statement that a follow-up "case study will illustrate the use of the Work Program of Complexity." With the foreknowledge and full approval of the editor, Warfield's intent was to send in a Ford Case Study as the follow up, to be printed in the very next issue of the journal. Documents contained in the folder sent to GMU on Sept 27, 2007 are: Publisher’s offprint: “Systems Science Serves Enterprise Integration: A Tutorial; Correspondence between Li Da Xu, journal editor, and Warfield; Warfield’s self-study notes and questions while reading papers sent by Dr. Xu; Publication-ready manuscript with letter of acceptance from editor. Please see also “Enterprise Integration of Product Development Data: Systems Science in Action” for the second part of Warfield's paper.
R.w. circa 2008, with updates October 19, 2014.
