This is a single cassette prepared for Warfield's home files by copying two presentations which were originally on separate tapes. The videos were produced in the seventies by Coke and Moore, two men who were among the early users of Interpretive Structural Modeling.

VIDEO NO. 1: Toward a Balanced Budget: Making the Tough Decisions. Gennessee County Flint, Michigan,1980 - 24 Minutes. This video was originally taped in October 1979 in the Gennessee County Offices in Flint, Michigan, then edited and produced as a NAC program. It shows the workings of the Gennessee County Board of Commissioners as they go through an Interpretive Structural Modeling process directed by James G. Coke and Carl Moore, with narration by Elizabeth Rott. A printed booklet with the same title, written by Coke and Moore is available in the IASIS File.[IASIS File No. 80/004 and 80/004 Video] Video and booklet were both produced/published by National Association of Counties, Washington, D.C. 1980. Coke and Moore were professors at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Jim Coke during 1973-74 was visiting scholar/consultant type at ACP (Academy of Contemporary Problems, Battelle Columbus) Carl Moore spent some time at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in the late 1970's to work with Warfield and to learn more about ISM. Both men later used ISM in their own work at Kent State. The IASIS File with the booklet written by Coke & Moore is in two locations, 1) Library at Defense Systems Management College, Ft. Belvoir, Virginia and 2) Library at ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico.

VIDEO NO. 2:Making Decisions on Reducing Public Expenditures. Kent City Council in Kent, Ohio. 1979 - 22 Minutes. In Kent, Ohio, the Nominal Group Technique (NGT), Delphi questionnaires, and Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) are the techniques used in sessions with Kent City Council members seeking an orderly and systematic way to cut city expenditures to meet the city budget. Directors/narrators are James G. Coke and Carl M. Moore. The Facilitator is Raymond Fitz . Jim Coke was a professor in Political Science department at Kent State Univ. Carl Moore taught in Kent State Speech & Communication department. Brother Ray Fitz a professor at University of Dayton, Ohio, was one of the first persons to work with John Warfield on development of ISM, in the early 1970's when Warfield was at Battelle Institute in Columbus. Apparently ACP (Academy for Contemporary Problems) at Battelle paid for the videotaping, since ACP is listed as publisher. Warfield told me in 2007 when I asked about Prof Coke, that Jim Coke had known Ralph Widner, ACP's director, and that Coke had been at ACP for a while as visiting scholar, and had there begun to use ISM. This would explain why ACP was involved. On this tape Jim Coke does a good job of explaining Interpretive Structural Modeling. Warfield was awfully happy when he saw the video, believing that at last his ISM might get wider recognition. Warfield had hoped that Prof. Coke would continue with ISM use at Kent State and elsewhere. Unfortunately, Prof. Coke died only a year after the video was filmed, when he was only about 54 years old.

(R.W. 21 Feb 2007)