The manuscript begins as follows: Interactive Managemetn (IM) is often easily and prematurely misinterpreted as an extension of existing schools of management thought, decision sciences or styles conveyed or easily comprehended. For example, unfamiliar individuals interpret IM as only a restatement development field, or an alternative practice of team building methods. " This nine-page paper with figures drawn by JNW but not attributed to him, was included as an appendix in every one of the original CIM Reports when first printed.

Notes:

  In the copy which I have here, there are 9 pages, then another 11 pages which are copies of transparencies or slides, making the entire thing 20. It is a conglomeration of papers and figures, printed several different times.  As an entire document it was originally written as promotional material in the early eighties when Aleco Christakis and David Keever teamed up in a private consulting business.  They wrote it by patching together documents used in previous work for John Warfield's Center at University of Virginia, and Ray Fitz's project team work at University of Dayton in the late seventies.  Christakis and Keever compiled and copyrighted it as a report , dating it June 1984. After joining John in his new program at George Mason University, Christakis and Keever were in charge of assembly and printing of the official CIM Reports from GMU.   Their copyrighted document "Overview of Interactive Management" became a fixture in all of the reports. The Christakis-Keever "Overview" was added as an Appendix to every single CIM Report from George Mason University.  It seemed a reasonable arrangement, since both David and Aleco worked very hard writing editing and supervising production of all those printed Reports during the four years that  they were in charge of the GMU Center for Interactive Management.

So it was not until the end of Christakis & Keever's stay at GMU, after the Center for Interactive Management had been dissolved, that I started cataloging all the old CIM documents, and began to wonder about my cataloging facts. I knew John had drawn some of the figures and probably Univ of Dayton staffers had written some of the Overview in the early seventies on the U.S. Dept Education project.  I cornered John in his office and asked him to go through the Overview of Interactive Management and tell me which of the pages were things he had written, so I could try to find out where, when and if they had originally been published. I got him to point out the figures and tables which were his work, here is the list.

A SET OF GENERIC DESCRIPTORS OF MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS AND TWO CLASSES OF PROBLEMS. (Table 1) John said he wrote the entire page, that Table 1 had been created by him, not David Keever or Aleco. But he could not remember what document it is in, or even if it was in a published document.

INTERRACTIVE MANAGEMENT SPECTRUM (Figure 1) This figure was published in "Organizations & Systems Learning, John's Presidential Address to the Society for General Systems Research, in their yearbook General Systems XXVII, p. 40.

THE "CIM" LOGO John designed the CIM Logo

THE SIGMA FIVE FIGURE The Sigma figure was first used by Warfield in workshops which he directed in Saudi Arabia (1980-1982) and shortly thereafter in Brazil (in May 1982). The Sigma-5 concept, as originated by Warfield, appeared in print for the first time in 1986, in his paper "Education in Generic Design.

" ILLUSTRATING TWO PROBLEM SITUATIONS John's hand-drawn version of this figure was published in his 1982 paper titled "Organizations and Systems Learning" in GENERAL SYSTEMS YEARBOOK. Later it was published as Figure 4.1 in John's book A SCIENCE OF GENERIC DESIGN.

All the printed CIM reports done at GMU are gone, given away with to workshop attendees, and clients. FENWICK Library has several copies in Warfield Collection, but I did not have one for my home library until 2007 when I found one remaining battered copy and scanned it to a PDF file name C:\Users\Rose\Documents\John Warfield Papers\INVNRW\JwPapers\Overview of Interactive Management.pdf. 

(R.W. NOVEMBER 21, 2017)