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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: May 16, 1990 06:00 PM .......; Rod Welch

PMI dinner meeting, SDS marketing develop sales leads.

1...Summary/Objective
2...SDS and POIMS Review Stanford to Improve Management


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Stanford Const Eng Mngmnt                                                                                                                                          O-00000232 0201
020101 - Mr. John W. Fondahl
020102 - Construction Engineering & Management Program
020103 - Mr. Haresh C. Shah; Chairman
020104 - Construction Engineering & Management Program
0202 - International Technology Corporatio                                                                                                                                O-00000187 0201
020201 - Mr. Louis E. Stout; General Manager
0203 - Saxon-Hamilton                                                                                                                                                     O-00000013 0201
020301 - Mr. Roger C. Bush;

SUBJECTS
WMA marketing, sales
Developing Leads
Monthly Meetings

0505 -
0505 -    ..
0506 - Summary/Objective
0507 -
050701 - Follow up
050702 -
050703 - Met Roger Bush, he sat immediately behind me.  We spoke only briefly,
050704 - but I gave him a copy POIMS program schematic, the POIMS & SDS
050705 - integrated triangles, and the SDS product summary.
050707 -  ..
050708 - Advised him I cannot make the meeting until Saturday.  He said
050709 - volunteers will be contacted.
050711 -  ..
050712 - Need to follow up with presentation to Saxon-Hamilton.
050714 -  ..
0508 -
0509 - Louis Stout, ITC
0510 -
051001 - Advised we own ITC stock.  This led to a discussion of his work and
051002 - I explained POIMS.  He generally accepted the concepts of POIMS.  I
051003 - should follow up and link it to Haresh's comments on the challenges
051004 - for construction in the 90's.
051006 -  ..
0511 -
0512 - Nolte Engineers
0513 -
051301 - I also talked to Tom, a young engineer with Nolte Engineers.  He did
051302 - not seem to appreciate the importance of creating a good record of
051303 - understandings and reasoning, until I asked him if he has ever
051304 - experienced a situation when he had to say "I do know why we did
051305 - that."  He noted this only occurs when the Engineer who did the
051306 - design is no longer available.
051308 -  ..
0514 -
0515 - Asilomar Conference
0516 -
051601 - Got Asilomar registration form, need to fill it out.
051602 -
051603 -
0517 -

SUBJECTS
WMA marketing, sales
Developing Leads

0604 -
0605 - Met John Fondahl and Haresh Shah
060601 -  ..
060602 - SDS and POIMS Review Stanford to Improve Management
060603 -
060604 - Follow up ref SDS 2 0866, ref SDS 1 PU91.
060605 -
060606 - Explained POIMS generally to John and Haresh.  Advised I would like
060607 - Stanford to teach a class in SDS.  Haresh asked me to contact him
060608 - tomorrow about following up on it.
060609 -
060610 -        [On 930929 research showed John Fondahl pioneer developing
060611 -        precedence diagram method (PDM) that complements arrow diagram
060612 -        methods (ADM) for implementing CPM scheduling for large
060613 -        projects. ref SDS 5 X66H
060615 -  ..
060616 - Haresh described objectives for teaching students who can become
060617 - "vehicles of change" for industry and government.  John and Haresh
060618 - appreciated the POIMS concept of management as suffering from
060619 - intellectual grid-lock due to compression of time and distance by
060620 - technology that increases the speed of information. ref OF 2 KE1T
060622 -  ..
060623 - Haresh wants to meet at Stanford to review this further.
060624 -
060625 -        [On 900619 scheduled meeting at Stanford on 900703 to review
060626 -        SDS and POIMS. ref SDS 4 576L
060627 -
060628 -
060629 -
060630 -
060631 -
060632 -
060633 -
0607 -
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