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Propositions and Elaborations
A short, unfinished, thought-piece on the challenges complexity poses to humanity. Includes list of 10-11 propositions.
Notes on Meeting with Frank Fukuyama Re Teaching in MAIT Program
A memo containing a list of things Warfield wanted to discuss with Fukuyama if he was going to teach a course in Fukuyama’s MAIT program.
DSMC Study Folder: Group Work Support Facility Design
A list of reference materials Warfield used during Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) faculty training activities in 1991 and 1992. There is a much larger version titled "Self-Study Program Development Guides for Warfield Literature."
Primer Interloquium Primicias del Siglo XXI (Conference Announcement)
A brochure for the “Primer Interloquium, Primicias Del Siglo XXI,” held 21-23 March 1994. Provides overview of what was intended for the conference, names of principal organizers and officials behind the conference and short bios of visiting international speakers (including Warfield).
Literature that may be relevant to evolution of QFD, Memorandum to Ford Project File
This is a description of the development of Interpretive Structural Modeling software along with a discussion of how it could be improved. Includes lengthy summaries of four published papers: : 1) Participative Methodology for Public Systems Planning 2) Unified Program Planning (Doug Hill, co-author helped with work to produce this paper) 3) Crossing Theory and Hierarchy Mapping 4) Effective Representations of Hierarchical Structures. Note that QFD is an acronym for Quality Function Development.
CIM logo described in Center's newsletter
Appeared in the Spring 1985 edition of the Center for Interactive Management newsletter Nexus. The logo shows two triangles linked together by CIM. A descriptive panel states that "The first triangle represents [Intelligence, Design and Choice] the three principal functions of managers, the second represents the three functions of a university, namely Teaching, Research and Public Service."
Contributions from Philosophy
A short bibliography/collection of short quotes from other authors including Geoffrey Vickers, A. N. Whitehead, J. Willard Gibbs and Charles S. Peirce. These quotation also appeared as Appendix 8 in Warfield’s 1986 GRAILS proposal.
Overview of Generic Design Science
An unfinished six page manuscript with the subdivisions Preliminaries, Hypothetical Priors to Current Design Practice, Representation-Oriented Priors, Management-Oriented Priors, Design Environment-Oriented Priors, Design-Process Oriented Priors, Evaluation-Oriented Priors, and Preparation-Oriented Priors.
John N. Warfield to Harvard Business Review
In this letter to Theodore Levitt, editor of the Harvard Business Review, Warfield describes his work and publications dealing with the theory and applications of a methodology described in an article the journal recently published titled "The House of Quality" written by Harvard professors Houser and Clausing. None of Warfield’s work had been cited or recognized.
Book Review: Constraint Theory: Multidimensional Mathematical Model Management by George J. Friedman
Warfield’s review of George J. Friedman, Constraint Theory: Multidimensional Mathematical Model Management (New York: Springer, 2005). See notes field for Freidman’s response to review.