THE WELCH COMPANY
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March 15, 2000

04 00067 61 01031501



Unfinished Revolution
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OHS DKR Project
SRI International
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Subject:   Candidate Collaboratory Requires Context


Jack, Henry,


Your research ideas for getting started on KM, showed from links in Jack's letter this morning.....


Silva Rhetoricae


.....which has a section that says.....


In classical rhetoric, oratory was divided into three branches:

  1. Judicial (or forensic - looking at the past)
  2. Deliberative (or legislative - looking at the future)
  3. epideictic oratory ("ceremonial" or "demonstrative" - present).

For both the analysis of speeches and for composing them, students were trained in recognizing the appropriate kind of oratory. Aristotle associated with each type of oratory an aspect of time (past, present, future), set purposes, and appropriate ("special") topics of invention:


This ideas was suggested to the team on February 8, 2000, when Eric Armstrong expressed concerns, like Henry does today, about the challenge of getting started with Knowledge Management.

Frustrations dealing with a complex environment, also, cited by Henry today, are becoming more common. Earnings and stock prices are declining because too many people are having too many problems.

SDS adds intelligence to information that produces knowledge for solving and avoiding problems. Experience using SDS discloses how to design KM tools, and provides command of the record (i.e., of experience, history) that reduces frustrations arising from complexity that is otherwise overwhelming.

Sincerely,

THE WELCH COMPANY



Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net