CONTACTS 
0201 - Stanford University                  650 723 3823
020101 - Department of Management Science and Engineering
020102 - Ms. M. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell; Chair  =650 723 3823
020103 - mep@leland.stanford.edu

SUBJECTS
Stanford Project Management
Continual Learning
Managing Organizations by Projects (MOBP)
Educational Institutions
VDT, Metrics for Communication
Communication Biggest Risk of Mistakes
Entropy in Communications/Information
Alliances on Development
KM Needs Formal Academic Training

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1412 - Summary/Objective
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141301 - Follow up ref SDS 63 0000, ref SDS 54 0000.
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141303 - Reviewed recent evidence showing Knowledge Management is a secret of
141304 - SDS, and that to implement KM requires a new professional discipline,
141305 - in addition to new tools.  Elisabeth requested a link to POIMS so she
141306 - can make an independent review toward assigning assets to study this
141307 - new educational opportunity.
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141309 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Elisabeth, with a link to POIMS.
141310 - ref OF 1 0001  Called for leadership with a broader vision to
141311 - overcome resistance to KM due to fear of accountability.
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141313 -    [On 000925 sent letter to Elisabeth. ref SDS 65 0001
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1416 - Discussion
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141701 - Elisabeth recalled our telecon on 000202, and my letter, ref DIP 4
141702 - 0001, concerning a new professional degree for Communication Metrics.
141703 - that integrates management science, technology and cognitive science.
141704 - ref SDS 49 0867
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141706 - We considered the challenge developing useful educational opporunties
141707 - when limited time prevents response from Elisabeth's team, as, for
141708 - example, planned on 000202. ref SDS 49 PN4J
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141710 - We reviwed the telecon with Pat Lincoln at SRI on 000829, discussing
141711 - the need to co-evole academic training for Knowledge Management,
141712 - ref SDS 62 R62W, with development of tools for generating knowledge,
141713 - from the meeting on 000725 showing that KM is a secret of SDS.
141714 - ref SDS 60 0050
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141716 - Elisabeth is familiar with the movement toward Knowledge Management.
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141718 - She did not have time to attend Doug's presentations during the
141719 - Colloquium following notice during our telecon on 000202.
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141721 - Elisabeth explained that her department has proposed a new course for
141722 - information systems or information management, and that the department
141723 - has hired someone from "the valley" to support the new class.  She
141724 - feels there is not enough time right now to do anything more; and
141725 - plans to assess curriculum changes after the department learns how
141726 - this new class is received by students.
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141729 - As an expert in risk management, reported on 000202, ref SDS 49 3899,
141730 - Elisabeth feels methods to reduce mistakes and recognize opportunities
141731 - that are masked by the complexity of daily life, should be evaluated
141732 - regardless of whether educators are busy, since doing timely, accurate
141733 - work is the primary purpose of education, where "truth" aims to ensure
141734 - reliability of judgements about taking action, as related by professor
141735 - Ransdell on 000729. ref SDS 61 0005
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141737 - Elisabeth recognizes alphabet technology is the core of
141738 - civilization, as set out in the record on 991108. ref SDS 26 5628
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141740 - Educators do not ask students if they like using alphabet technology,
141741 - because it is the foundation on which all learning occurs.  Even
141742 - althletics, music and other physical type tasks rely heavily on
141743 - alphabet technoogy.
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141745 - The training proposed for Communication Metrics adds a dimension of
141746 - time to information that significantly enhances alphabet technology by
141747 - augmenting human intelligence, as set out in POIMS. ref OF 1 0001 This
141748 - proposition is gaining recogition from the work of Charles Peirce in
141749 - semiotics, as discussed with Cliff Joslyn, Los Alamos National
141750 - Laboratory on 000713. ref SDS 59 4078
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141752 - Students need training for a new professional discipline for Knowledge
141753 - Management, because information management causes continual mistakes
141754 - due to meaning drift, which makes....
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141757 -             Communication biggest risk in enterprise
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141760 - ....as explained in POIMS. ref OF 1 R69H
141761 -
141762 - Elisabeth asked if POIMS has been published?
141763 -
141764 - I advised it is available on the web.
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141766 - She explained that academics evaluate ideas based on whether
141767 - they are published by the conventional press.  This provides
141768 - legitimacy that causes academics to take notice.
141769 -
141770 - We reviewed the opportunity for academics and others to review and
141771 - nurture ideas in order to enable publication, otherwise the risk of
141772 - calamity from failure to adjust course in time causes overwhelming
141773 - harm, and ignorance is not excused merely because there is no formal
141774 - publication.
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141776 - Elisabeth offered to review POIMS.  She asked for the web
141777 - address.
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141779 - I will send a letter with a link so she can book mark the location.
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141781 -    [On 000925 sent letter to Elisabeth. ref SDS 65 0001
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