I am just following up our discussion at Patti's wedding, when I indicated plans to send you notice of a management system I call Communication Metrics.

The basic idea is that business communications are a bit amorphorous, often tenuous, so it might be possible to use technology in a way that produces useful "business intelligence." A simple way to think of it is if someone asks whether "intelligence" is helpful to management, most people would say yes. But going beyond and saying what it does and how it works becomes complex. There is an "intelligence" role in the military, but it is foreign to business.

Anyway, when you have time take a look and let me know what you think.

Thanks, and happy vacation to you and Judy.

Sincerely,

THE WELCH COMPANY

Rod Welch