CONTACTS 
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020101 - Mr. Morris E. Jones
020102 - Vice President =Ext. 4283
020103 - Advanced Products =fax 434 0765

SUBJECTS
SDS, Marketing, Product Definition
Automated Integration
Design and writing
Information Management, Welch Management Method
Describe SDS in 25 words, Difficult to Explain SDS/POIMS
New World Order - Information Highway
Information Revolution v. Information

1209 -    ..
1210 - Summary/Objective
1211 -
121101 - Followed up work at ref SDS 11 line 36, and ref SDS 9 line 48, and
121102 - internet ref DIP 1 line 30 to remind Morris we need the SDS Windows
121103 - source code to send to Mori Smyth.
121104 -
121105 - Reviewed terminology this evening with respect to meeting industry
121106 - standard usage.
121107 -
121108 - Morris has not yet read the recent EM on discussions with Axiom, ref
121109 - SDS 11 line 40, nor with Sackett Design, ref SDS 11 line 44.
121110 -
121111 - Submitted ref DIT 1 line 30 via internet to confirm understandings
121112 - and get further comment.
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1212 -
1213 -
1214 - Discussion
1215 -
121501 - I asked Morris about his perspective that POIMS Technology is a
121502 - misnomer.  I noted that the term "Information Technology" or IT, which
121503 - came up last Friday on the workshop by Gopal Kapur, ref SDS 10 line
121504 - 86, seems to indicate POIMS is well positioned within the general
121505 - field of IT.
121506 -
121507 - Further cited the reference to Lotus Notes in the Thomas Davenport
121508 - article in HBR entitled:
121509 -
121510 -                       Saving IT's Soul
121511 -
121512 -     ...reviewed at ref SDS 3 line 185.
121513 -
121514 - ..
121515 - These sources seem to place POIMS within the general Information
121516 - technology field.
121517 -
121518 - Morris said he considers technology to be machines not software.  He
121519 - said software represents a "method" not technology.  Morris described
121520 - SDS as:
121521 -
121522 -                  The Welch Management Method
121523 -
121524 -         ...discussed earlier at ref SDS 1 4930.
121525 -
121526 -     SDS is actually a set of sound mangement practices integrated by
121527 -     automation, ref OF 1 line 144, and so may qualify as technology
121528 -     under Morris' definition.
121529 -
121530 -     Confirmed this at ref DIT 1 line 27.
121531 - ..
121532 - Morris feels the definition is a matter of perspective.  He
121533 - feels SDS does not "automate" management, because it does not do
121534 - anything by itself.
121535 -
121536 -     SDS automatically links succeeding records, how it automatically
121537 -     assembles disparate information on a single topic, once the
121538 -     manager issues a request.  He suggested we look up "automatic."  I
121539 -     did this, and found the American Heritage Dictionary gives the
121540 -     washing machine as an example of automation, even though it
121541 -     requires "management" input on what to wash, and when to wash it.
121542 -     SDS works similarly.
121543 -
121544 -        [See discussion at ref SDS 13 3867, ref SDS 13 1341.]
121545 -
121546 - We considered how CPM is a method of using a computer. The internal
121547 - combustion engine is a method of using a machine.  Jet propulsion is
121548 - method of using airplane engines.  POIMS is another way of using
121549 - computers to leverage the capacity to think, remember and communicate.
121550 -
121551 - I confirmed this understanding at ref DIT 1 line 27.
121552 -
121553 -
121554 - Explaining SDS Easily
121555 -
121556 - I seem to have come up with a 25 word description of POIMS, ref DIT 1
121557 - line 43.  It follows up discussions with Morris in 1991 at ref SDS 1
121558 - line 154.
121559 -
121560 -     [This was used later to submit course proposal to GWU at ref SDS
121561 -     12 line 65; see also meeting at Santa Clara University, ref SDS 14
121562 -     line 117.]
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121564 -
121565 -
121566 - Information Highway v. Information Revolution
121567 - ..
121568 - I asked if he finds these are different.  Morris seemed to
121569 - define the Information Revolution to have the attributes I give to the
121570 - Informa- tion Highway, ref SDS 2 line 217.  He seems to be aware of
121571 - the increasing rate of information creation and the burden this
121572 - represents for conducting business.
121573 -
121574 -    [See however later discussion where he rejects the idea, ref SDS 15
121575 -    line 148, and again on New World Order of the Information Highway
121576 -    re Asilomar, ref SDS 16 line 293.]
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