A segment from a session of the Great University Seminar Series attended by George Mason University President George W.Johnson. Warfield discusses the 12 assumptions that underlie the concept of the Great University and ...
In this segment, Warfield discusses system design. Warfield believes that the current methodology for designing systems is inadequate. He introduces some of the language, methodologies and concepts of the Science of ...
In this video segment from an interview given by Hilary Austin in the Demosophia room at George Mason University, Warfield gives a history of Interactive Management (IM). He discusses how he first got involved in the study ...
This is a segment of John Warfield's "Influence Seminars" given in the Spring of 1987. Here Warfield discusses the differences between brainstorming and brainwriting and why brainwriting is superior. He then explains how ...
Clanthink, like groupthink, is a small group pathology. Warfield describes clanthink in this clip from a class taught at George Mason University as being when every member of a group believes something that is wrong. ...
In this segment of a class taught at the George Mason University Warfield discusses the group pathology "groupthink." "Groupthink" is what happens when there is pressure put on a group to make a decision. The group ends ...
This is a clip of one of Warfield's "Influence Seminars" given in the Spring of 1987. Here he explains the evolution of the methodologies used in Interactive Management. Original VHS located in the John N. Warfield ...
This is a portion of a lecture given as part of John Warfield's "Influence Seminars," taught at George Mason in the Spring of 1987. In this segment Warfield describes Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM). ISM is a ...
In this clip from a lecture, Warfield responds to a question on whether he would consider incorporating any new methodologies into Interactive Managemen (IM). He outlines the seven different methods used in IM and explains ...
In this segment of a course taught at George Mason University, Warfield discusses his paper "The Magical Number Three Plus or Minus Zero." The paper claims that people can only deal with three interrelated things at once ...
Warfield argues that graphic representations are needed to help people understand complex problems. Specifically, he speaks to the tendency of economists to be vague and confusing when dealing with the general public. ...
In this segment, Warfield discusses what goes into a plan for a session of Interactive Management. The proper facilities to hold an IM session, the scope statement, context statement, and the triggering questions are ...
In the first segment Warfield discuses the importance of having solid scientific foundations before coming up with theory and suggests that some of the mistakes that are made in the field of science are the result of not ...
These video segments come from a filmed class, "Resolving Complexity in Organizations," taught at the George Mason University in the Spring of 1999. In them, Warfield shows the first Interactive Management Session held at ...
In these segments from a class lecture given at the George Mason University on February 27, 1999, Warfield talks about the "history of thought" and "thought leaders." He discusses a number of philosophers, such as Aristotle ...
Warfield gives and overview lecture of a variety of different topics that deal with how to manage complexity in organizations. He specifically deals with what an organization requires and what it must understand before ...
In this Center for Interactive Management (CIM) video, Alexander Christakis discusses the differences between a normal problem and a complex problem and how CIM can help organizations manage complexity. The video then ...