Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:10:27 -0800
Mr. Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net
The Welch Company
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111 2496
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Rod,
The linking problem which you address in your letter of 2002-Feb-13 is not an item of contention.
Outlook as an email client uses Microsoft Word as its editor.
When an email comes in and is deemed to be plain text, the reply is forced into plain text, and editing hyperlinks into the message works, but they all get stripped out when it is sent. It took me a while to determine that this was the problem and that the program is so smart that it can’t be defeated – a reply to something it thinks is plain text can be only plain text.
By initiating a message, I should be able to send it in HTML based on the preferences set in the address book for your email. We shall see.
As you point out in the reference to bad management at Enron bad management can destroy the efforts of any number of people. In this case, as in many others, the oversight was deliberate -- there was no audit trail and where there could have been it wasn't used.
That is the position at Boeing. I don't believe that they are unable to follow a process that would track their work – they claim to have one. The simple fact is that they are desperately afraid that someone will notice how much trouble they are really in, and do so in a way that can’t simply be ignored.
Different topic: In the POIMS paper you cite Intelligence: as Organize, Analyse, Align, Summarize, Feedback. It seems to me that there is a step that involves acquiring knowledge -- creating, remembering, collecting, etc. before organizing can proceed. I find that when I surf the web looking for a specific kind of information, I generally do only enough organizing of the data so that I don't lose it, and then I start organizing the pieces. Linking is not a fast activity, particularly when I don't have a linked form of the record. Finding a specific piece of information in the record with just a browser is not trivial.
I have no objection to using SDS if we can work out some way that you can get a fair exchange out of it.
I agree with your Rumsfeld <>http://www.welchco.com/sd/08/00101/02/02/01/31/191927.HTM#L271419> reference that there is work to be done. Boeing may be forced to do something, but they will not until they are forced.
I am going to end this here as I want to see that the links I put into this email do in fact arrive.
Sincerely,
Dynamic Alternatives
Garold (Gary) L. Johnson
dynalt@dynalt.com