SEE ALSO the record in Textual Materials titled "A Challenge for Systems Engineers: To Evolve Toward Systems Science: Part 2" On 3 Sept 2008, This paper and its companion, Part 2 of 2, were shipped to George Mason University Special Collections & Archives as hard copy. The article is in two parts because of its length. Part 2 was published in the next issue of INCOSE Insight, in January 2008. Insight is the "newsmagazine" for the organization. Printed on newsprint, Insight is a thick booklet which is over 50 pages in length. This is not the slick-paper "journal" published by the same organization. This is a quote from the author’s INTRODUCTION: "I am about to issue a challenge to all systems engineers - something I would never dare to do, unless I could provide at least three examples of systems engineers who have already accepted the challenge and succeeded in meeting it. No -- that's not quite right. They did not exactly accept it: it is more accurate to say that they came looking for it. These engineers tell their own story in part 4 of my 2006 book An Introduction to Systems Science. Here I will tell you enough of their story to make my challenge seem at least reasonably plausible to you." Jack Ring brought up the idea of Warfield's publishing an article in Insight, and suggested the "Challenges" as a topic, because he had heard Warfield speak about it earlier in one of the workshops, probably. So Warfield sent him this paper and said he could do what he wanted to with it. Jack responded that it was too long for the Insight article which had a 2500 words limit. Warfield's word count was about 5000. So Jack Ring split the article into two parts, and printed them in consecutive issues. Warfield did not see the article again after sending to Jack until it was published, he just told Jack to go ahead with the split if he wanted to do it. Warfield said the article is a repetition of talks and presentations he has given before, specifically he said this published paper is very similar to a "Challenges" PowerPoint presentation titled MIDDLE HUMAN SCIENCE presented in China as one of the Bertalanffy lectures which he prepared for that trip. However this Insight article, says Warfield, is oriented towards systems engineers, rather than researchers or scholars.

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