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Exchange of letters between Warfield and Philip Lally that discuss previously published article by Warfield entitled "Corrective System for Minimizing TACAN-DME Spurious Radiation.”

Presented by Center for the Study of Race & Ethnic Relations, George Mason University, Fairfax, 1 Virginia, November 1989.



Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Collective Inquiry Methods

Talk presented at the NASA-ASEE Summer Design Workshop on Systems Engineering, 18 June 1979 Langley Field, Virginia.

Unfinished talk that discusses cognitive viability. Includes series of tables and display pages intended as transparencies to be used with talk.

Discusses Clanthink and its effects on organizations and group processes. Originally titled “Clanthink Assures Institutionalized Mediocrity” and sent to Short Circuit: The Newsletter of Engineering Empowerment for publication.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Clanthink

A lecture presented at Bell Northern Research Laboratory, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on 3 June 1993. See also, "Clanthink (PowerPoint Slides)," which was passed out at the lecture and contains copies of the transparencies used.


Describes dissemination of Interpretive Structural Modeling into Japanese management, from 1974-1982. Includes annotated bibliographical and copies of 7 papers written by Japanese authors. Updated in 1986.



Talk given to group of Chinese scholars and government officials that divides Warfield’s research on complexity into four time periods: Startup, Developmental, Integrative and The Future. Lists colleagues who have assisted, organizations and universities involved, and locations of major applications of the work. Incorporated as part of larger manuscript entitled “OVERVIEW: John N. Warfield's 30 Year Research Program on Complexity.”

Covers work done between 1968 and 1991 to develop Warfield’s ideas of complexity and the management of complexity through group process design. Includes lists of: People involved, Organizations involved, Activities, Startups, Shutdowns, Time periods, Products, Interns, Perturbations, Sponsors, Major ISM sessions, Major software developments, and titles of 31 books/articles by Warfield which he refers to as "Key publications. “


Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

CHINA Travel Report

Report composed following lecture tour in China. Includes list of lectures given and names and backgrounds of others who had attended and given talks. Folder also contains hotel and conference schedules and names of Chinese friends and acquaintances.