Provides a list of 15 transparencies and a guide on how to read the maps produced by the Interpretive Structural Modeling process.

An invited article on ways to improve systems engineering. Warfield’s first published journal article.

Describes the origins and the purposes of the methods used Interactive Management. It is the sixth in a series of essays written by Warfield forShort Circuit: The Newsletter of Engineering Empowerment.

Written as a correspondence to the special collections library in July 2000, when his papers were being considered for archiving. Warfield describes the history of the beginnings of his approach to the study of complexity and gives his list of eleven ideas or concepts of major importance in dealing with complex situations. The author calls these eleven ideas "Early Warfield Conclusions." Document became part of a booklet titled "Guide to the Warfield Collection" with added end notes and reference annotations written by Rose Warfield. Folder also includes an unfinished draft with handwritten corrections for an expanded document.

Ephemera relating to Warfield’s trip to Taiwan. Likely includes brochures of the conference or meeting Warfield attended.

A description of the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) process. Includes history of its mathematical "ancestors" and a list of names of the important thinkers who contributed to the mathematical logic supporting ISM theory. Copies of slides or transparencies used for the talk attached. A bibliography lists names of persons currently working with ISM concepts and titles of papers on Interpretive Structural Modeling. Appendix, “Some Applications of Interpretive Structural Modeling,” provided basis for later presentation. Presented at Canadian Operations Research Society, Annual Meeting, Montebello, Quebec, 23 May 1979.

Documents and communications related to meeting held on 26 July 1999 at George Mason University. Participants included James H. Finkelstein, Daniele C. Struppa and John N. Warfield. Participants discussed Warfield’s suggestions for curriculum changes.

Beginning document for what later became the Handbook published in 1994. Folder includes copy of a well-organized manuscript was stored, with index divider tabs, handwritten notes on book organization, and computer printouts done between February and April, 1991. There are 145 consecutive document pages, and 4 small appendices, or extra sections not yet developed. Also includes communications between Warfield and colleagues working at DSMC regarding the project.

This is a (now obsolete) compact disk of a WordPerfect version of the original prepublication manuscript for the 1994 book A Handbook of Interactive Management, published by Iowa State University Press. Saved for historical reference. For the updated pdf version, see “A Handbook of Interactive Management, Compact Disk Edition 2005.”

Drafts of A Handbook of Interactive Management completed prior to collaboration with Roxana Cardenas. All of these drafts are about 148 pages in length, but there is no continuous page numbering. Each section is numbered separately, and several planned sections have not yet been inserted. Final citation: Warfield and Cárdenas, A Handbook of Interactive Management (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1994).