Contains photocopies of 24 transparencies used as class material for courses taught by Warfield at Defense Systems Management College and also before other audiences. In 1991, at the time he was using these transparencies, he had assembled a set of twelve "Laws" to be used by persons applying Interactive Management to design problems. It is Number 4 in a series of four reports originating in 1990-1991 when Warfield created transparencies for use with faculty classes at Defense Systems Management College. Titles of the other three booklets in the series are 1) “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: an Overview.” 2) “Generic Design Science: Diagnostics.” 3) “Interactive Management Workshops: Planning for Success.” See also, “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: Front Material for Presentation Set.”

This report contains photocopies of 27 transparencies designed to aid in a discussion of the problems involved in getting the generic design science into our higher education, and some of the options and/or actions required. Number 2 in a series of four reports originating in 1990-1991 when Warfield created transparencies for use with faculty classes at Defense Systems Management College. Titles of the other three booklets in the series are 1) “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: an Overview.” 3) “Interactive Management Workshops: Planning for Success” 4) “Generic Design Science: Laws of Generic Design.” See also, “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: Front Material for Presentation Set.”

During presentations, these pages were passed out to accompany “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: an Overview,” which was one of four reports originating in 1990-1991 when Warfield created transparencies for use with faculty classes at Defense Systems Management College. Titles of the other three booklets in the series are 1) “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: an Overview.” 2) “Generic Design Science: Diagnostics” 3) “Interactive Management Workshops: Planning for Success” 4) “Generic Design Science: Laws of Generic Design.” Following 1991 these little reports were used often in workshops and lectures, distributed to audience and visitors until they were out of print.

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Suggestions from Roxana Cárdenas, a Professor and Department Chairman, Instituto Technologico de Monterrey, Mexico, on how Warfield could improve and reorganize Warfield’s Handbook of Interactive Management. Warfield adopted most of her suggestions and invited her to collaborate on rewriting the manuscript for the next edition.

One in a series of four small reports originating in 1990-1991 when Warfield created transparencies for use with faculty classes at Defense Systems Management College. Titles of the four booklets in the series are 1) “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: an Overview.” 2) “Generic Design Science: Diagnostics” 3) “Interactive Management Workshops: Planning for Success” 4) “Generic Design Science: Laws of Generic Design.” Following 1991 these little reports were used often in workshops and lectures, distributed to audience and visitors until they were out of print. Lectures on this subject were presented at National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 22 October 1991, and at University of Michigan-Dearborn, School of Engineering, 18 February 1992. See also, “Generic Design Science and Interactive Management: Front Material for Presentation Set.”

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Manuscript for a seminar at the Center for Interactive Management at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

A paper in draft form, which follows Krippendorf's views on the locus of complexity. Argues that complexity is the dilemma presented to the mind when engaged in conceptualizations that are beyond its unaided powers. Known enhancers and detractors to human mental effectiveness are discussed, and several modes of attack in substantive areas are mentioned where significant enhancement is possible. Describes and promotes the Interactive Management program at George Mason University, which uses processes unique in the field of management and systems design.

A series of 14 PowerPoint transparencies that discuss George J. Friedman's Constraint Theory among other topics. The full title of the presentation is “Quality Control in Modeling Complexity: Freidman, Harary and Ashby Contributions.” Presented at University of Hull Business School during week of 2-6 July 2001.