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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: April 6, 1993 03:00 PM Tuesday; Rod Welch

Meeting with Gary Perdue at McClellan AFB re SDS.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Follow Up
.....Knowledge & Ideas


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CONTACTS 
0201 - 652 CCSG McClellan AFB                                                                                                                                             O-00000480 0201
020101 - Mr. Gary Perdue; SCCB, Paperless Office Group

SUBJECTS
SDS Marketing, Demonstrations
Intelligence Incite Correlations
Add Value Intelligence Analysis
Military Intelligence Organization
Linking Adds Value Writing:  Sources, Time,

1007 -
1007 -    ..
1008 - Summary/Objective
1009 -
100901 - Follow up
100902 -
100903 - Demonstrated SDS per telecon on 930402. ref SDS 8 RM6N
100904 -
100906 -  ..
100907 - Follow Up
100908 -
100909 - Will submit ideas from POIMS technology that may be helpful to Gary's
100910 - project on the "Paperless Office."
100912 -  ..
1010 -
1011 -
1012 - Gary's Office
1013 -
101301 - He has several Sun workstations, as well as regular DOS PC's and HP
101302 - laser printers in his office.  We connected the notebook to one of
101303 - three 21" monitors in his office (os2 looked good on the larger
101304 - screen).  He is working on a project to accomplish a paperless work
101305 - stream for managers and executives, as SDS does.
101307 -  ..
101308 - The entire CCSG area has PC's everywhere, a veritable Mecca for SDS.
101310 -  ..
1014 -
1015 -
1016 - Demonstration
1017 -
101701 - Used record of demonstration at KH to explain SDS, at ref SDS 6 line
101702 - 80.
101704 -  ..
101705 - Reviewed how SDS implements well established management practices.
101706 -
101707 -     1.  Not enough "time" to get everything done, ref SDS 5 line
101708 -         240.
101709 -
101710 -     2.  Gary has read Covey, so reviewed ref SDS 5 line 162.
101711 -
101713 -  ..
101714 - Did not review following because Gary wanted to show us some work he
101715 - is doing to implement the "Paperless Office."
101716 -
101717 -        Difficulties in contract management from Cal Tech seminar see
101718 -        ref SDS 4 line 071764.
101719 -
101720 -        Correct information is usually available, ref SDS 4 line
101721 -        071379.
101722 -
101724 -  ..
101725 - Gary feels SDS implements the objectives of his group to provide a
101726 - range of critical capabilities for managers and executives.  He feels
101727 - acceptance of SDS would be hindered among some executives and
101728 - Commanding Generals because it presents the work in a direct format,
101729 - rather than familiar images of documents, folders and binders.
101731 -  ..
101732 - Gary explained research his Group has done videotaping Commanding
101733 - Generals to capture tasks and elements of their work for study to
101734 - develop technology that support the work of commanding.
101736 -      ..
101737 -     Knowledge & Ideas
101738 -
101739 -     We discussed the critical ingredient for improving productivity
101740 -     and effectiveness of executive management, is providing a way to
101741 -     capture and correlate knowledge and ideas.
101742 -
101743 -     Knowledge and ideas cannot be videotaped.  Videotaping shows how
101744 -     people work in a manual world, not how they can do a better job in
101745 -     an automated world, see for example ref OF 3 line 115 which
101746 -     explains a new way of doing things is needed.
101748 -      ..
101749 -     Videotaping a CG looking at a memo or briefing book, and marking
101750 -     some notes for actions, does not capture for the General what he
101751 -     thinks about what he sees, and how it relates to what he already
101752 -     knows or has done.  The human mind makes these correlations
101753 -     inherently.
101754 -
101755 -         Automated tools must integrate time, information, contact and
101756 -         document management.  Formal and informal communications must
101757 -         be linked.  Absent this integration, the value of a computer
101758 -         is almost nil to an executive.
101760 -          ..
101761 -         For tools to be effective for an executive, they must begin by
101762 -         responding instantly to requests initiated by the human mind,
101763 -         and thereafter should prompt the mind to consider related
101764 -         information and enable the mind to instantly act upon such
101765 -         prompts, including plan specific or generic follow up.  Tools
101766 -         that do not provide information quickly and comprehensively,
101767 -         will be discarded.
101768 -
101769 -
1018 -
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