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First drafts of transparencies and production notes to accompany  "Managing the Unmanageable" lecture Number 1. Planned for presentation in Mexico in Spring semester, 2000, but cancelled, the lecture “Process Leadership in Organizations”  was instead made into the first videotape of an overall series of 14 lectures, 9 of which were filmed.  See this lecture on video or see the slides for this lecture.  See also MTU2000, The Video Lectures.

Materials to accompany “Metrics of Complexity,” which was planned by Warfield to be Number 5 of an overall series of 14 videotapes to be called "Managing the Unmanageable.” A video of lecture is available. See also, "Metrics for Measuring Complexity."

 

A concise outline of various useful methodologies for conducting productive meetings in which group decisions are made. This was one of the reports from Academy of Contemporary Problems, in Columbus, Ohio



Presented Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City, 3-8 January 1988.

A one page summary of talk presented before the Executive Advisory Council of the School of Business, University of Northern Iowa, 14 November 1980, Cedar Falls, IA.



Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Methodology for Large-Scale Systems

A series of Workshops presented at three locations in India (Pune, Bombay, and Bangalore), in December 1979. Done in collaboration with Dr. Robert W. House, of Vanderbilt University and Dr. P.N. Murthy, of ITT, Kanpur, India. These workshops, were sponsored by the Indian IEEE and also by two Indian corporations: TATA and Kirloskar.

The ideas in this paper are an outgrowth of Warfield's work for the Environmental Education project between 1976-1978. See also, "Systems Planning for Environmental Education." File includes correspondence related to possible publication.


Information relating to the application for a patent. Filed 8 August 1966 by Patent Lawyers Hovey, Schmidt, Johnson & Hovey, Federal Reserve Bank Bldg., Kansas City, Missouri 64106 on behalf of Warfield. Includes nine typed pages, seven unnumbered pages on which are listed 18 numbered "claims" identifying the parts of the invention, one figure pages, and a copy of a two-page document in which Warfield signed over patent rights to Wilcox Electric Co. Patent was not granted.

A partial listing and categorization of digital components from the John N. Warfield Digital Collection at the Fenwick Library, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 8 February 2009. Gathered by Warfield. Category terms come from library staff at GMU.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Measuring Complexity

Discussion of ways to measure complexity using Nominal Group Technique and Interpretive Structural Management (ISM) to gather data that will then be calculated. The Miller Index can then measure the extent of the problem perceived and the Spreadthink Index can measure differences in opinion within a group. Additionally, the De Morgan Index can provide a measurement of the degree of paired relationships among the problems and the Aristotle index can measure the density of logic in a problematique produced during a group’s work with Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM).