Attached is a proposal for Intel to study SDS as a way to meet your objectives in the Byte interview, ref d.

This study would verify that SDS improves management, as reported by PG&E, ref e.

That finding can lead to a business arrangement for Intel and Welch to create an "operating system for people and organizations" that would grow new markets and eliminate dependance on Microsoft. It would assuage the downsizing problem by making the Information Highway productive, using a new concept of education through "continual learning," called out by ISO criteria.

Our work on Asilomar shows Intel has the talent and energy to combine technology with management science needed to fulfill your vision in Byte. If you wish to proceed, we can begin immediately so preliminary results can be reported at Asilomar.

Sincerely,

THE WELCH COMPANY

Rod Welch

Attachments:

Develop Proposal to Intel re Communication Metrics

P.S. Letter to PMI Communications, Apr 19, 1996, cites

Andy Grove
at bottom
of p. 3, as the model of good management that technology can support.