Description: Welcome to The Warfield IP Trust Our goal is to ensure the John N. Warfield intellectual legacy remains widely available. The JNW CatalogOur Catalog o...
Our goal is to ensure the John N. Warfield intellectual legacy remains widely available.
Dr. Warfield did much of his later work at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. He later donated the originals of many of his documents to GMU's Special Collections and Archives . The collection is cataloged for online review and is open to visitors.
Dr. Warfield is best known as the inventor of Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM), Interactive Management and Generic Design Science. Interactive Management and ISM software have been applied by practitioners around the globe to large-scale, difficult problems in industry and government, ranging from automotive design at Ford, to DoD procurement, to government policy at every level. In Understanding Complexity: Thought and Behavior, Dr. Warfield defined Interactive Management as "a system of manageme