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Checklist for Workshop Plan
Checklist of things to consider when planning an Interactive Management workshop. See also, "Preparing an Interactive Management Workshop Plan.
Charles François: Friendship, Dedication, and Wisdom
Article written for a Festschrift dedicated to Charles François, an Argentine systems scientist and friend of Warfield.
Chapters 8-14 of Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity
These chapters contain the hard math used for Warfield’s Interpretive Structural Modeling algorithms. From John N. Warfield, Societal Systems: Planning, Policy and Complexity (1976; reprint, Salinas, CA: Intersystems, 1989).
The Center for Interactive Management (CIM Publication 1-P)
First brochure issued for the new Center for Interactive Management. Describes services available. Includes logo Warfield designed.
Center for Interactive Management Reports, List of Contents
Titles of reports written by Institute for the Advanced Study of Integrative Science staff members 1983-1989.
“Managing Complexity”
Agenda for the International Systems Thinking Conference and Workshops, University of Cape Town, 4-11 November 1997. Includes list of transparencies Warfield planned to use. See also, Managing Complexity: An Interactive Management Workshop.
Categorizing Process in Interactive Management: An Email Message With Amendments
An email written by Benjamin Broome and edited by Warfield. Served as an informal guide for facilitators when working with a group session doing Interactive Management. See also, “Notations for Watching ISM Videos.”
Categorizing Complexity
Transparencies used for talk that show the ways Warfield developed categories for explaining and portraying complexity. Presented at meeting of Chinese VIP visiting delegation held in Room E & F, Johnson Center, George Mason University, on 4 August 1998.
Categories of Topics for A Science of Complexity [Bibliography]
Catalog of Warfield’s work divided into four major categories: Infrastructure of Science, Science of Complexity, Application of the Science and Site of the Applications. Often given with “Warfield’s Organization of Literature.”
Categories of the Laws of Complexity
Summary of three general categories for laws: Behavior (habitual, physiological, organizational), Communication Media and Mathematical Operations. Discusses the Twenty Laws of Complexity as subsets of these categories.