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Marketing
Evaluation by Others
SDS Thoery, Developing Leads
Write Everything Down Overkill Not Enough Time Don't Know to Only Nec
Overkill Write Everything Down Not Necessary Write What is Important

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0908 - Summary/Objective
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090901 - Mike liked the article, but was not satisfied it explained a practicle
090902 - way to carry out the objectivs of POIMS.
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090904 - We had an interesting discussion on a variety of other topics.
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090906 - Mike will try to develop some written comments to supplement our
090907 - discussion.
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0912 - Discusison
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091301 - It is like going to church.  SDS seems to require a relatively
091302 - siginficant change in daily way of doing something.
091303 - ..
091304 - Article gets you to the threshold, but may not get one through
091305 - the door.  He feels more examples are needed.  Mike will write some
091306 - comments in the margin of the article to indicate where examples are
091307 - needed to make the point.
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091309 - The POIMS article explains a method of creating a more complete
091310 - record, but creating it is more ponderous.
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091312 - You are actually solving a problem in the whole article.  He did not
091313 - get that he solved the problem.  He was telling Janet that the people
091314 - who he knows who generally function like a manual SDS, are not
091315 - particularly effective.
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091320 - Marketing Idea
091321 - Worried that Working Intelligently Requires Writing Everything Down
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091323 - Mike suggests we approach organizations whose primary focus is to
091324 - create and maintain and manipulate data, like a bio tech corp or SRI,
091325 - who do research all day.  They would be genearlly more receptive to an
091326 - automated process.
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091328 - Mike said he read the article and found it presented interesting
091329 - ideas.  He feels the article does not adequately overcome his
091330 - impression that he would have to spend a lot of time to enter data.
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091332 - He also concluded that besides spending time to create data, it
091333 - would be time consuming to manipulate the data.
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091335 - Mike explained that he does not have time to write everything down.
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091337 - I explained SDS does not require writing everything down, it merely
091338 - provides a tool to write more effectively and retrieve accurately and
091339 - instantly that which a manager chooses to write down.  Managers
091340 - already do a lot of writing.  With SDS the writing is more effective
091341 - and valable.
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091343 - We give examples, but they do not prove the points.  I explained that
091344 - nothing but experience can prove the point.  We need to do some
091345 - studies that establish what we want to establish.
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091347 - Alphabet example.  He feels this is good analogy in that he
091348 - would likely be skeptical of adopting the alphabet if it was not
091349 - already in existence.
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091351 -     [On 991108 Mike's perspective today may explain why it took 400
091352 -     years to advance from using the alphabet to record speeches to
091353 -     using it for analysis and history. ref SDS 6 7048
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