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Explicit Links Make Creating Connections to SDS Fast and Easy, Stuart
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Explict Links Make Connections to SDS Record Fast and Easy
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Circle of Advocates Foster Culture of Knowledge Report to Colleagues

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3514 - Summary/Objective
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351501 - Follow up ref SDS 17 0000, ref SDS 10 0000.
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351503 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to confirm discussion yesterday where Stuart
351504 - was able to demonstrate that creating a connected record to comply
351505 - with FAR requirements for good management is fast and easy using SDS
351506 - explicit links. ref SDS 17 V59N  Stuart agreed to try commenting on
351507 - SDS support for FAR requirements, and to consider colleagues he can
351508 - engage to develop a circle of advocates called out by Secretary of
351509 - Defense Donald Rumsfeld, reported on 020131. ref SDS 8 6L5K
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351511 -   1.  This confirms our telecon yesterday. ref SDS 17 0001  I
351512 -       appreciate your patience and courtesy in continuing to consider
351513 -       SDS.  We set two action items for you to invest a little time
351514 -       advancing transformation within DOD, called out by Don Rumsfeld
351515 -       in remarks to the War College on 020131. ref SDS 8 QF4H
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351518 -   2.  You will review three or four paragraphs in POIMS that explain
351519 -       transformation from information technology to a culture of
351520 -       knowledge, ref DIT 1 4V6M, that enables good management
351521 -       practices called out in the Federal Acquisition Regulations
351522 -       (FAR), ref OF 1 3385, and which align with practices recommended
351523 -       by experts like Covey and Drucker, and are specified in industry
351524 -       standards like PMBOK, and ISO, as explained in POIMS.
351525 -       ref OF 1 QT5L
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351528 -   3.  As we discussed, FAR places a demand on Contracting Officers,
351529 -       and other managers delegated to implement FAR requirements, to
351530 -       capture organizational memory, ref DIT 1 NM7N, and show
351531 -       alignment using an audit trail to original sources, as set out
351532 -       in the record on 020504. ref SDS 10 XV7L
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351535 -   4.  However, as further shown, it is difficult to carry out this
351536 -       requirement, ref DIT 1 PPUX, because there isn't enough time
351537 -       using information technology that everybody likes. ref SDS 10
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351541 -   5.  DOD and contractors waste billions of dollars performing rework,
351542 -       as management control degrades to entropy because nobody has
351543 -       time to align the work using IT. ref DIT 1 NP4Q  You mentioned
351544 -       in our call that DOD is now striving to reduce costs, so adding
351545 -       alignment is a direct solution to save time and money by working
351546 -       "intelligently" to avoid mistakes, noted by General Hatch in the
351547 -       report issued by USACE on 970328. ref DRP 1 6172
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351550 -   6.  Since USACE later reported that using SDS for Com Metrics saves
351551 -       money at the rate of 10:1 by reducing mistakes, ref DRP 2 0001,
351552 -       DOD's objective to save money, in order to invest resources for
351553 -       homeland security and improve readiness, ref DIT 1 0069, can be
351554 -       accomplished by using SDS to align daily work with objectives,
351555 -       requirements and commitments.
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351558 -   7.  The first action item is to comment on this opportunity spelled
351559 -       out in POIMS, ref OF 1 3385, per above.  If there is no need to
351560 -       save money using good management called out by FAR, then let's
351561 -       modify FAR by eliminating the requirement.  If there is money to
351562 -       be saved, then let's get started saving it for other needs.
351563 -       ref DIT 1 G16F
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351566 -   8.  The second action item is to test the proposition that aligning
351567 -       daily work takes only a few seconds using SDS explicit links,
351568 -       and so SDS makes it fast and easy to accomplish DOD's objective
351569 -       to save time and money by working intelligently. ref DIT 1 GS3F
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351572 -   9.  During our discussion yesterday, we noted conflicts between
351573 -       calling for good management to save time and money, and failure
351574 -       to make any effort to perform, ref DIT 1 SS3L, related in a
351575 -       recent letter on 020820. ref SDS 14 6E4G  Another example
351576 -       occurred on 020822 where people call for "rigorous analysis" but
351577 -       provide no analysis. ref SDS 16 VA5O  The disjunction between
351578 -       advocacy, policy and requirements for good management that saves
351579 -       time and money, and actual performance, called "strategic
351580 -       dissonnence" by Andy Grove at Intel, reviewed on 980307,
351581 -       ref SDS 3 5517, is the central challenge for contract managers.
351582 -       How then to bridge the gap between FAR requirements for good
351583 -       management to align the work for saving time and money, and
351584 -       failure to perform because there isn't enough time?
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351587 -  10.  The first step is to find someone willing to invest a few
351588 -       seconds to "study," called out by Grove as the solution for
351589 -       improvement, ref SDS 4 5794, in order to discover that working
351590 -       intelligently only takes a few seconds using SDS, and to begin
351591 -       spreading the word, so that others can learn about this
351592 -       opportunity.  Spreading the word is fast and easy using email
351593 -       and the Internet. ref DIT 1 WZ5H
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351596 -  11.  During our call we went through an exercise using the steps in
351597 -       the record on 020726, ref SDS 12 636G, to create a few links in
351598 -       email.  You discovered this takes only a few seconds, using
351599 -       explicit links, so it is only a matter of volition, rather than
351600 -       a task that requires a lot of time and expertise, to create
351601 -       connections called out by management standards and by FAR for
351602 -       traceability to original sources. ref DIT 1 SR4N  You also saw
351603 -       that FAR is on the Internet with explicit links created by SDS
351604 -       that empower DOD personnel to communicate in the manner required
351605 -       by the regulations, as shown in the record on 020504.
351606 -       ref SDS 10 XV7L
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351609 -  12.  You agreed to lead by sending email to colleagues who are trying
351610 -       to implement goals for saving money by transforming DOD to
351611 -       comply with FAR requirements for good management.  Sending email
351612 -       with links to SDS records demonstrate that working intelligently
351613 -       by adding connections that align daily work with objectives,
351614 -       requirements and commitments is fast and easy to learn and to
351615 -       perform.  This leadership takes 5 - 10 minutes to accomplish.
351616 -       ref DIT 1 LA7O
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351618 -           [On 030103 Greg Oxton to send email to colleagues at CSI
351619 -           with links to POIMS that grow a culture of knowledge.
351620 -           ref SDS 18 6X5N
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351623 -  13.  In our call yesterday, we discovered, as shown by your test
351624 -       letter below, that Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), which is a
351625 -       popular IT program, doesn't work very well for copying links
351626 -       into email using the Microsoft Outlook program.  A simple work
351627 -       around is to click on an explicit link, rather than copy it
351628 -       directly. ref DIT 1 UC8M  This places the URL address in the
351629 -       Location Bar where it can be then copied and transferred to an
351630 -       email.  We found that it only takes 1 or 2 seconds, still within
351631 -       the period of volition that makes adding connections fast and
351632 -       easy for saving time and money, as related to Tom Munnecke on
351633 -       020726. ref SDS 12 U26H
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351636 -  14.  Notice the record on 020726 shows that investing a few seconds
351637 -       generates cost savings of about 900%, which is pretty close to
351638 -       the savings reported by USACE on 971007....
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351640 -       http://www.welchco.com/04/00065/60/97/10/0702.HTM#7401
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351643 -  15.  You can verify that working intelligently only takes a few
351644 -       seconds, by notifying colleagues of this opportunity using
351645 -       explicit links into FAR and to other sources provided by SDS.
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351648 -  16.  Savings are only a "click" away because savings come from
351649 -       improving human memory that is wired to rely on remembering the
351650 -       gist of information, which is only about 5% - 10%.  Adding links
351651 -       to email, as shown by this letter, enables people to rely on the
351652 -       actual record of organizational memory, including contracts,
351653 -       regulations and correspondence, rather than make mistakes
351654 -       remembering only 5% - 10%, as explained in POIMS...
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351656 -       http://www.welchco.com/03/00050/01/09/01/02/00030.HTM#KH8J
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351659 -  17.  People can ignore opportunity to save money when they are busy
351660 -       attending a lot of meetings, making calls and sending email to
351661 -       fix a mountain of mistakes caused by work that is not aligned
351662 -       with requirements.  But, when they get email with links to the
351663 -       exact information they need to solve their problems, this
351664 -       demonstrates self-evident benefits that are harder to ignore.
351665 -       When people see a fast, easy way to save time and money, when
351666 -       they see that "savings are just a click away," some will want to
351667 -       invest a second or two to save time and money.
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351670 -  18.  This may advance DOD goals to save money by transformation that
351671 -       empowers people to follow the regulations on using good
351672 -       management, since now it only takes a few seconds to work
351673 -       accurately and creatively.
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