An interview of John Warfield conducted by Hilary Austin, a graduate student at GMU. Interview occurs in the Demosophia Room at George Mason, which Warfield had designed to help conduct more effective Interactive Management sessions. Warfield discusses his intellectual history and the development of Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) as well as other topics including Transitivity, Edges, Paths, Relation and Element statements, and the importance of a Graphics Language. See also “John Warfield Interviewed by Hilary Austin: Interview No. 2.”

A final session of an Interactive Management workshop held for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on 17 July 1987.

Designing a learning sequence of mathematics courses is the focus of this 12 minute video. It is one of a set of five demonstration or publicity tapes produced by the Center for Interactive Management in the 1980's to show the possibilities and uses of Interactive Management. (the other four were on subjects of Defense Acquisition, Marine Fisheries, Nursing, American Indian tribes.

Click here for the complete set of video cassettes filmed during the NSF Currriculum workshop, from which excerpts were taken for this 12 minute tape.

The first session of an Interactive Management workshop for the National Science Foundation (NSF), NSF Grant No. DMC-8615486, 10 November 1986. See also, “Curriculum Workshop: Mathematics for Computer Science: Tape 2 of 5,” “Curriculum Workshop: Mathematics for Computer Science: Tape 3 of 5,” “Curriculum Workshop: Mathematics for Computer Science: Tape 4 of 5,” and “Curriculum Workshop: Mathematics for Computer Science: Tape 5 of 5.”

An early effort by the Center for Interactive Management to get George Mason University interested in using Interpretive Structural Modeling. See also, “The Emergence of a New GMU Image for 1990.

The first of Professor Benjamin Broome’s class session in which students practiced the Nominal Group Technique. For the other classes, see “Communication 531: Nominal Group Technique Session, February, 22 1988” and “Communication 531: Nominal Group Technique Session, March 21 1988.”

A set of two interviews of Alexander Christakis conducted by Benjamin Broome. Christakis discusses Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and the purpose of the George Mason Center for Interactive Management.

A presentation and discussion about Interactive Management presented to an entrepreneur from New York who was planning to invest in a start-up company headed by Alexander Christakis. See also, "American Institute for Interactive Management (AIIM) Planning Session Transcript”

Four hours of a demonstration of an Interactive Management session. The first of two Congressional committee hearings on tribal issues, involving the use of IM.

Videotaped sessions from an Interactive Management Workshop conducted at Defense Systems Management College (DSMC), Ft. Belvoir, VA held 17-21 June 1991, with a follow-up 28 June 1991 interview with Warfield. The IM workshop dealt with the management of purchases by the U. S. Department of Defense. ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS: a Ph.D. dissertation titled Redesigning the United States Defense Acquisition System.  which is in George Mason University Library, shelved in Special Collections, Fenwick Library. Full descriptions of the activities on these videotapes are described and interpreted in the dissertation.