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KM Requires Support Personal Knowledge Aligns with POIMS
Collaboration Common Basis 2 KM Groups Tools and People Skills
Bright Stars Desciples
Secret of SDS KM Not Understood
Dilemma Industry Doesn't Know How to Design KM
KM Difficult Design Not Enough Known about Knowledge Need Experience
Hopeless Quagmire Eric Requests Help Recommendations Solve Informatio
Language Shapes Thoughts Alphabetic Mind, Gary
Alphabet Technology Foreign Term, Henry van Eykan
Language Shapes Thoughts Alphabetic Mind Not Understood Difference, G
Writing Fear Don't Know What to Write Struggle Resisted Engineers, Ma
Alphabet Cost Savings Communicaiton Illustrated by Civilization
Alphabet Most Powerful Technology, Improved by SDS
Language Shapes Thoughts Alphabetic Mind

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4717 - Summary/Objective
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471801 - Follow up ref SDS 81 0000, ref SDS 80 0000.
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471803 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Gary dated 010820, who makes
471804 - following two (2) points....
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471806 -   1. Engineers don't explain their work well enough, commonly
471807 -      described as failing to provide documentation. ref DRT 1 9S8J
471809 -       ..
471810 -      Engineers just want to do technology....990525, ref SDS 10 0966
471811 -      Overwhelming tendendy bad management....001101, ref SDS 38 4O5K
471812 -      People don't know what to write.........911121, ref SDS 4 8467
471813 -      Not enough time to analyse everything...940114, ref SDS 5 6295
471814 -      No time to think about anything.........970911, ref SDS 7 3479,
471815 -      Laziness inhibits intelligence..........010908, ref SDS 82 YF5O
471817 -       ..
471818 -   2. Language shapes thought, ref DRT 1 XS9F, seems to align with
471819 -      theory of alphabetic mind reviewed on 991108. ref SDS 14 5628
471821 -       ..
471822 -      Recognition of language as a driving force that strengthens human
471823 -      thought, reflects POIMS explanation of alphabet technology.
471824 -      ref OF 1 JE6L
471826 -  ..
471827 - This letter supplements Gary's prior work on....
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471829 -      Letter to Gary on alliance for SDS......010719, ref SDS 81 OL8I
471830 -      Gary asked about SDS....................010719, ref SDS 81 0001
471831 -      Tried to create KM several times........010719, ref SDS 81 GH7I
471832 -      Requests theory of knowledge............010719, ref SDS 81 YR9J
471833 -      KM begin with personal management.......010408, ref SDS 72 FT4N
471834 -      Background on Gary's KM efforts.........010408, ref SDS 72 0001
471836 -  ..
471837 - Gary never responded to the letter, ref DIP 5 0001, submitted on
471838 - 010719 which explained some details about SDS. ref SDS 81 OL8I
471840 -  ..
471841 - Over the past month....
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471843 -      Laziness makes IT attractive; hampers
471844 -      discovery of KM.........................010908, ref SDS 82 YF5O
471845 -      Demand for intelligence increases.......010911, ref SDS 83 0001
471846 -      SDS add value to information............010913, ref SDS 84 1U3O
471847 -      SDS amazing obviously works.............010916, ref SDS 85 0001
471848 -      SDS unique organizational memory tool...010924, ref SDS 86 NK4J
471849 -      Information overload hopeless quagmire..011003, ref SDS 87 0001
471851 -  ..
471852 - This record in combination with Gary's continued interest in KM as
471853 - seen by his letter on 010820, per above, ref SDS 0 0001, suggests it
471854 - might be worth the time to try another contact.
471856 -  ..
471858 -  ..
471859 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Gary following up his letter on 010820
471860 - that shows good insight on KM issues, and ask for his support to
471861 - advance SDS as the only productive path for KM. ref DIT 1 004G
471863 -  ..
471864 - Cited...
471865 -
471866 -      1.  Gary's interest in KM, per above, ref SDS 0 0001, in order
471867 -          to strengthen engineering management, ref DIT 1 0001, which
471868 -          SDS supports, per the record on 990524. ref SDS 9 0876
471869 -
471870 -      2.  Morris' comments that SDS improves management better than
471871 -          other methods, reported on 010924. ref SDS 86 NK4J
471873 -           ..
471874 -      3.  Gary's letter on 010820 and prior work, per above,
471875 -          ref SDS 0 0001, shows strong insight about important aspects
471876 -          of KM. ref DIT 1 WW6G
471877 -          ..
471878 -      4.  Alliance needed to make progress. ref DIT 1 DY6O
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471880 -          Intel has given up on the prospect of creating a Killer
471881 -          Application to solve the problem they identified in 1991 as
471882 -          the purpose of their technology, reviewed in a meeting at
471883 -          Intel on 950927. ref SDS 6 7732
471885 -           ..
471886 -          The letter to Gary on 010719 explained I am looking for
471887 -          people who are able and ready to make progress on KM.
471888 -          ref DIP 5 004K as shown in the record on 010719. ref SDS 81
471889 -          004K
471890 -
471891 -             [On 011006 Gary says he wants dialog on a productive path
471892 -             for KM. ref SDS 88 JQ6K
471894 -           ..
471895 -      5.  Work on OHS/DKR project show people giving up on solving
471896 -          information overload, reported by Eric Armstrong on 011003.
471897 -          ref SDS 87 0001
471899 -  ..
471901 -  ..
471902 - Initial goal is to get Gary to inject into OHS/DKR conversation ideas
471903 - from POIMS and NWO in terms technologists can understand.  His writing
471904 - already there; it is just a matter of making association with SDS that
471905 - provides a path for accomplishing goals of KM.
471907 -  ..
471908 - This requires demonstrating a commitment to understanding what needs
471909 - to be developed and deployed to move from IT to KM that enables a
471910 - culture of knowledge.
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