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DIARY: February 29, 2000 04:55 PM Tuesday; Rod Welch

Adding "intelligence" to management is difficult.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Engelbart's Ideas Resisted by Dynamics of Organizational Culture
3...Cultural Resists Change to Avoid Risks of Unproven Methods
4...Pilot Testing Demonstrates Benefits of DKR for Large Organizations
5...Henry van Eyken Web Master for Bootstrap
6...Relational Biology Provides Insights on Mathamatics of Knowledge


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CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
Improving Improvement, Continual Learning
Competence Challenged by Com Metrics
Accountability Caused by Writing Talking Gives Deniability Get Credit
Culture Resists Integrating Separate Functions
Attitude Makes Resistance to Communication Metrics Emotional
Fixing Small Problems is Psychologically Unattractive, Seems Not Cost
Management Improvement Miracle Intelligence Incredible
Pilot Test New Capabilities, 000227

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1111 - Summary/Objective
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111201 - Follow up ref SDS 45 0000.
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111203 - Colloquium contributor from Japan cites cultural resistance to ABC
111204 - improvement model, despite advantages, and suggests strategies of
111205 - pilot testing in small companies, and with individuals in larger
111206 - organizations, along the lines proposed by Eric a few days ago.
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1115 - Progress
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111602 - Engelbart's Ideas Resisted by Dynamics of Organizational Culture
111603 - Cultural Resists Change to Avoid Risks of Unproven Methods
111604 - Pilot Testing Demonstrates Benefits of DKR for Large Organizations
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111606 - Follow up ref SDS 45 0984.
111607 -
111608 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Hirohide Yamada explaining efforts to
111609 - implement Doug Engelbart's objectives for improving improvement in
111610 - Japan.  Hirohide cites difficulties along the lines set out in Eric
111611 - Armstrong's letter on 000226, ref DRP 5 0001, reviewed in the record
111612 - on 000227. ref SDS 45 0984
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111614 - Hirohide interprets Doug's improvement model as connecting
111615 - deductive to holistic optimization in an organization, and feels it
111616 - really makes sense. 'Holistic' means beyond organization and national
111617 - boundaries. In this thinking, A and B activities from Doug's ABC
111618 - model, reviewed on 991222, ref SDS 27 1550, are deductive optimization
111619 - and C activities are holistic optimization.  We interpret Doug`s
111620 - effort as to make organizational objective to solve holistic problems
111621 - by doing A and B activities deductively. ref DRT 1 6424
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111623 - Hirohide relates strategy of pilot testing NIC and Doug`s ABC
111624 - model in small companies to demonstrate benefits for changing larger
111625 - industrial culture to solve holistic problems using the ABC model.
111626 - ref DRT 1 1452
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111628 -     This aligns with Doug's call for pilot testing, reviewed on
111629 -     991222, ref SDS 27 5402, cited inferentially by Eric's analysis in
111630 -     a scenario, reviewed on 000227. ref SDS 45 3528
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111632 -     The letter to the Colloquium on Saturday says SDS provides
111633 -     effective knowledge management. ref SDS 45 0897  The pilot test
111634 -     by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of this method, might fit
111635 -     Hirohide's idea for introducing this capability in Japan.
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SUBJECTS
Web Master, Henry van Eyken, 000225
Leadership

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130502 - Henry van Eyken Web Master for Bootstrap
130503 -
130504 - Follow up ref SDS 45 0005, ref SDS 43 5893.
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130506 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Henry today advising he will focus on the
130507 - webmaster work for the Bootstrap Institute whose stated goal is "as
130508 - much as possible to boost mankind's collective capability for coping
130509 - with complex, urgent problems."
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SUBJECTS
Ontology Organize Structure
Mathamatics of Knowledge
Knowledge Define Chronology Causation Experience
Causation Case Studies Chronology Intelligence
Causation Chronology History Experience
Experience Repository of Knowledge, Project Office

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250902 - Relational Biology Provides Insights on Mathamatics of Knowledge
250903 -
250904 - Received ref DRT 3 0001 from Jack Park submitting sources on the
250905 - concept of Relational Biology as evolved from Raschevsky and Rosen,
250906 - the following URL develops a relational calculus...
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250909 -      http://pablo.ubu.ruu.nl/~proefsch/01850074/inhoud.htm
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250911 -
250912 - On 000221 Jack cited Rosen for support on understanding the complexity
250913 - of subject management. ref SDS 37 7455
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250915 - Jack's letter today seems to include information from a prior
250916 - letter that is not identified, but points out that referenced sources
250917 - provide "...a chapter or more on causality." ref DRT 3 3286
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250919 - Causality (also, cause and effect, and causation in the law) is
250920 - critical to understanding the distinction between information and
250921 - knowledge, which impacts the character and functioning of KM tools,
250922 - like SDS, as explained in POIMs. ref OF 1 0561
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250924 - Root cause analysis is another aspect of chronology and causation.
250925 -
250926 -     [On 010315 Henry van Eykan cites research from classical views of
250927 -     time, past, present, future, showing core elements of KM.
250928 -     ref SDS 49 C24O
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250930 - Concurrent Discovery developed on 960620 applies the microscope
250931 - of SDS to discover causation and maintain alignment. ref SDS 7 1111
250932 - On 991014 the complexity of daily activity, makes causation a
250933 - challenging task. ref SDS 25 5600
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250935 - On 000208 submitted suggestions for Colloquium on the core capability
250936 - of knowledge management.  On 000212 Eric Armstrong seems to have
250937 - applied suggestions by proposing an innovation that aligns with ideas
250938 - submitted on 000228. ref SDS 32 9790
250939 -
250940 -    [On 000331 Jack submits letter on Gelertner's work who supports
250941 -    chronology as organizing method. ref SDS 47 5946
250942 -
250943 -    [On 000709 Bill DeHart reported that PG&E found SDS uses chronology
250944 -    to organize information better than other methods. ref SDS 48 0784
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