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DIARY: May 16, 1995 07:27 AM Tuesday; Rod Welch

Continue develop daily scenario of how SDS is used.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Farming is Investing, Improves on Nomadic Foraging
3...Genie in a Bottle
4...Example - Too Much Information Conceals Knowledge
5...SDS = OSPO
.............Operating system for people and organizations
6...How Soon Can We Get This into SDS?


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SUBJECTS
SDS Replaces Conventional Methods
Daily Scenario using SDS
Investing Intellectual Capital
Operating System for People & Organizations
Farming - Investing Saves Time
Genie in a Bottle
Operating System for People & Organizations
Sea of Details, Information and Managers
Farming model for Investing

1211 -    ..
1212 - Summary/Objective
1213 -
121301 - Follow up ref SDS 8 0000.
121302 -
121303 - Did more editing on typical day scenario using SDS, ref OF 1 0000, to
121304 - clean up some errors in the language and grammar, punctuation.
121305 -
121306 - Want to clearly explain what Knowledge and Office Workers do
121307 - differently with SDS and how this saves time and money.  I also
121308 - address the idea of the need for a communication engineer, ref OF 1
121309 - 5722.
121310 -
121311 -    [On 950516 submitted scenario to Bill DeHart for considering using
121312 -    in the PMI event. ref SDS 9 0001]
121313 -
121314 -
121315 -
121316 -
121317 -  ..
121318 - Farming is Investing, Improves on Nomadic Foraging
121319 -
121320 - Explained farming analogy to save time, ref OF 1 5883, developed at
121321 - ref SDS 7 4404 and ref SDS 6 4404, using executive perspective
121322 - represented by the Primavera experience ref SDS 4 4543.
121323 -
121324 - Explain executive management is essentially analogous to ancient
121325 - nomadic tribes that foraged on whatever was available, because they
121326 - were ignorant, or feared the process of delayed reward inherent to
121327 - farming.
121328 -
121329 -
121330 -
121331 -  ..
121332 - Genie in a Bottle
121333 -
121334 - Also mentioned the "Genie in a Bottle" metaphor ref OF 1 8533,
121335 - developed at ref SDS 5 1335.
121336 -
121337 -     [On 950518, did more editing at ref SDS 10 0000.]
121338 -
121339 -
121340 -  ..
121341 -
121342 - Example - Too Much Information Conceals Knowledge
121343 -
121344 - Developed scenario showing current practice of using computer support
121345 - for problem evaluation and solution data base, ref OF 1 line 369. The
121346 - SDS data base is replete with examples, a recent one is at ref SDS 11
121347 - line 103.
121348 -
121349 -
121350 -  ..
121351 - SDS = OSPO
121352 -
121353 - Developed management perspective, purpose of computer must be...
121354 -
121355 -             Operating system for people and organizations
121356 -
121357 -    ...into the scenario. ref OF 1 3858
121358 -
121359 - It seems to have first come into the system on 950308, ref SDS 3 0001,
121360 - which uses the idea from the NWO paper that the human mind has created
121361 - a world for which it is not well suited.
121362 -
121363 -     [On 950927 expanded on this idea from discussion with Dave at
121364 -     Intel, ref SDS 12 8400
121365 -
121366 -     [On 951106 correlated SDS Management Cycle with the ISO ideas of
121367 -     "Continual Learning." ref SDS 13 4093]
121368 -
121369 -     [On 960421 submitted proposal to Intel to create Operating System
121370 -     for People and Organizations. ref SDS 14 2215]
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SUBJECTS
Best Way to Improve Management Say at End of a Meeting - How Soon Can
How Soon Can I Get This into SDS?
SDS How soon can I get this good idea written up?

2306 -
230601 -  ..
230602 - How Soon Can We Get This into SDS?
230603 -
230604 - Added explanation on improving management by capturing organizational
230605 - memory in SDS, ref OF 1 10JK, per meeting with Morris on 950303.
230606 - ref SDS 2 5555
230607 -
230608 - Key point is that people believe seeing and hearing in meetings and
230609 - other communciation conveys understanding. ref OF 1 R052  The record
230610 - on 950204 explains that all we have are impressions that begin to fade
230611 - and become commingled with other events, ref SDS 1 0550, as further
230612 - explained in NWO. ref OF 2 4077
230613 -
230614 - Introduce idea of a Com Manager, ref OF 1 QV9J, based on explanation
230615 - in NWO. ref OF 2 6369
230616 -
230617 -    [On 990625 successful executives invest time after a meeting to
230618 -    capture the record of organizational memory. ref SDS 15 1024
230619 -
230620 -    [On 021218 improved Typical Day Scenario ideas for handling
230621 -    resistance to saving time and money. ref SDS 16 0001
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