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S U M M A R Y
DIARY: April 6, 1993 03:00 PM Tuesday;
Rod Welch
Meeting with Gary Perdue at McClellan AFB re SDS.
1...Summary/Objective
2...Follow Up
.....Knowledge & Ideas
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CONTACTS
0201 - 652 CCSG McClellan AFB O-00000480 0201
020101 - Mr. Gary Perdue; SCCB, Paperless Office Group
SUBJECTS
SDS Marketing, Demonstrations
Intelligence Incite Correlations
Add Value Intelligence Analysis
Military Intelligence Organization
Linking Adds Value Writing: Sources, Time,
1007 -
1007 - ..
1008 - Summary/Objective
1009 -
100901 - Follow up
100902 -
100903 - Demonstrated SDS per telecon on 930402. ref SDS 8 RM6N
100904 -
100906 - ..
100907 - Follow Up
100908 -
100909 - Will submit ideas from POIMS technology that may be helpful to Gary's
100910 - project on the "Paperless Office."
100912 - ..
1010 -
1011 -
1012 - Gary's Office
1013 -
101301 - He has several Sun workstations, as well as regular DOS PC's and HP
101302 - laser printers in his office. We connected the notebook to one of
101303 - three 21" monitors in his office (os2 looked good on the larger
101304 - screen). He is working on a project to accomplish a paperless work
101305 - stream for managers and executives, as SDS does.
101307 - ..
101308 - The entire CCSG area has PC's everywhere, a veritable Mecca for SDS.
101310 - ..
1014 -
1015 -
1016 - Demonstration
1017 -
101701 - Used record of demonstration at KH to explain SDS, at ref SDS 6 line
101702 - 80.
101704 - ..
101705 - Reviewed how SDS implements well established management practices.
101706 -
101707 - 1. Not enough "time" to get everything done, ref SDS 5 line
101708 - 240.
101709 -
101710 - 2. Gary has read Covey, so reviewed ref SDS 5 line 162.
101711 -
101713 - ..
101714 - Did not review following because Gary wanted to show us some work he
101715 - is doing to implement the "Paperless Office."
101716 -
101717 - Difficulties in contract management from Cal Tech seminar see
101718 - ref SDS 4 line 071764.
101719 -
101720 - Correct information is usually available, ref SDS 4 line
101721 - 071379.
101722 -
101724 - ..
101725 - Gary feels SDS implements the objectives of his group to provide a
101726 - range of critical capabilities for managers and executives. He feels
101727 - acceptance of SDS would be hindered among some executives and
101728 - Commanding Generals because it presents the work in a direct format,
101729 - rather than familiar images of documents, folders and binders.
101731 - ..
101732 - Gary explained research his Group has done videotaping Commanding
101733 - Generals to capture tasks and elements of their work for study to
101734 - develop technology that support the work of commanding.
101736 - ..
101737 - Knowledge & Ideas
101738 -
101739 - We discussed the critical ingredient for improving productivity
101740 - and effectiveness of executive management, is providing a way to
101741 - capture and correlate knowledge and ideas.
101742 -
101743 - Knowledge and ideas cannot be videotaped. Videotaping shows how
101744 - people work in a manual world, not how they can do a better job in
101745 - an automated world, see for example ref OF 3 line 115 which
101746 - explains a new way of doing things is needed.
101748 - ..
101749 - Videotaping a CG looking at a memo or briefing book, and marking
101750 - some notes for actions, does not capture for the General what he
101751 - thinks about what he sees, and how it relates to what he already
101752 - knows or has done. The human mind makes these correlations
101753 - inherently.
101754 -
101755 - Automated tools must integrate time, information, contact and
101756 - document management. Formal and informal communications must
101757 - be linked. Absent this integration, the value of a computer
101758 - is almost nil to an executive.
101760 - ..
101761 - For tools to be effective for an executive, they must begin by
101762 - responding instantly to requests initiated by the human mind,
101763 - and thereafter should prompt the mind to consider related
101764 - information and enable the mind to instantly act upon such
101765 - prompts, including plan specific or generic follow up. Tools
101766 - that do not provide information quickly and comprehensively,
101767 - will be discarded.
101768 -
101769 -
1018 -
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