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SUBJECTS
Correlation to accepted practice and
Re-Engineer Project Management
ISO 10006 - Project Management Standards
Traceability, Continual Learning, Case Studies
History, Command & Control of the Record
Religion, Experience, Knowledge Creep, Metrics
Intelligence, Military, Tending Garden of Knowledge
Museum, Communication Manager Takes
Inspiration Incite Correlations
Story - Information in context that creates

3412 -
3412 -    ..
3413 - Summary/Objective
3414 -
341401 - Follow up ref SDS 22 9483.
341402 -
341403 - From discussion today with Ron Howard at Stanford, ref SDS 22 9922,
341404 - decided to specifically set out the correlation of a number of key
341405 - concepts embodied by "continual learning" from analysis of Peter
341406 - Drucker's work at ref SDS 6 5820.
341407 -
341408 -     [On 960321 Tom Landauer's paper on induction theory (LSA) is
341409 -     reviewed. ref SDS 38 4537]
341411 -      ..
341412 -     [On 951229 Generl Hatch cited military intelligence as a learning,
341413 -     traceability role. ref SDS 31 2036]
341415 -  ..
341416 - This record connects ideas from review on 950721 of ISO and PMBOK
341417 - management standards on traceability, ref SDS 18 1740, and Continual
341418 - Learning, ref SDS 18 6883, with POIMS concpets of Command and Control
341419 - of the record, discussed with Morris on 911121, ref SDS 2 8628, and on
341420 - 950607, ref SDS 17 3922, and earlier at Cal Tech seminar on 921021.
341421 - ref SDS 4 5692
341422 - ..
341423 - It seems to be the same branch of ideas that leads to "stories,"
341424 - case studies, reliance on history, the Bible, past is prologue, and
341425 - case law called precedents discussed in the NWO paper prepared on
341426 - 950812, ref SDS 19 0112.
341427 -
341429 -      ..
341430 -     Traceability and Continual Learning are Related
341431 -
341432 -     See the explanation from the record on 950812. ref SDS 19 1555
341433 -
341434 -     [Used "story" to explain difference between data and information
341435 -     in letter to Dave Vannier on Asilomar on 960509. ref SDS 44 7723]
341436 -
341438 -  ..
341439 - The idea of "religion" as providing enlightenment through case studies
341440 - is analysed further in reviewing Morris' comments on 950822 about the
341441 - NWO paper at ref SDS 21 4884.
341442 -
341443 -     [On 960307 Explained professional disciplines to capture useful
341444 -     "case studies," ref SDS 37 9555
341446 -      ..
341447 -     [On 960510 developed theory of consciousness at ref SDS 45 5672]
341449 -      ..
341450 -     [On 960627 "stories" and "history" related to consciousness was
341451 -     discussed in meeting with Intel. ref SDS 49 4899]
341453 -      ..
341454 -     [On 951122 see analysis of "stories" as means by which the mind
341455 -     stores knowledge. ref SDS 30 0000]
341457 -      ..
341458 -     [On 950909 "case study" cited as key business practice in Wired
341459 -     magazine article on Reengineering and TQM, ref SDS 23 4850.]
341461 -      ..
341462 -     [On 960410 linkage supports accepted practices of learning,
341463 -     religion, law, etc., is at ref SDS 42 7477, ref SDS 42 0400.]
341465 -      ..
341466 -     [Lessons Learned was applied to COE report on Communication
341467 -     Metrics on 970422. ref SDS 50 1111]
341469 -      ..
341470 -     [Example is space shuttle failure, per ref SDS 51 4401.]
341471 - ..
341472 - "Case Studies" work because human biology changes slowly,
341473 - ref OF 2 line 420.  This means the way people interrelate remains
341474 - fairly constant over thousands of years.  So a case study from several
341475 - thousand years ago in the Bible remains relevant.
341476 - ..
341477 - Case studies are the experience that provide patterns for
341478 - dimension matching used by the induction process in human cognition,
341479 - ref SDS 38 3830, that supports wisdom and vision, discussed in next
341480 - record segment.
341481 -
341482 -       [On 970422 used experience and patterns of correlations in COE
341483 -       report on Communication Metrics on 970422, see ref SDS 51 5553.]
341485 -        ..
341486 -       [Support for "case study" feature is in Wired magazine article
341487 -       on Reengineering and TQM, ref SDS 23 line 215.]
341489 -        ..
341490 -       [On 980630 example of "case study" using Internet to support
341491 -       "Project Office" organization model. ref SDS 55 0633]
341493 -  ..
341494 - Continual Learning is explained also at ref SDS 6 5820.
341495 -
341497 -  ..
341498 - Intelligence - Develops the Full "Story"
341499 - Case Studies, Continual Learning, Knowledge Creep
341500 -
341501 - The SDS Diary is a continuous series of "stories" about human
341502 - experience called case studies, also called "intelligence," linked by
341503 - traceability that permit continual learning. This supports the POIMS
341504 - concept of investing intellectual capital, and the Communication
341505 - Metrics idea of converting information into knowledge through linkage,
341506 - of time and objectives, which seems to be an aspect of "connectionist
341507 - theory" in cognitive science, ref SDS 38 8966, ref SDS 52 6666.  Case
341508 - studies and traceability provide the check against "knowledge creep,"
341509 - discussed in the NWO paper. ref OF 2 9449
341510 -
341511 -        [On 960517 converting information into "intelligence" was
341512 -        recognized in a Cal Tech course at ref SDS 46 0000.]
341514 -         ..
341515 -        [On 960321 Landauer's LSA findings, ref SDS 38 4537]
341517 -         ..
341518 -        [On 951229 General Hatch explained Communication Metrics as
341519 -        adding intelligence to information. ref SDS 31 2036]
341521 -         ..
341522 -        [On 970416 Corps of Engineers report. ref SDS 50 1191.]
341524 -         ..
341525 -        [On 970525 article on "repository of experience" supports using
341526 -        a diary as a base of intelligence. ref SDS 53 4700]
341527 -     ..
341528 -     Knowledge Creep actually occurs at a variety of levels.
341529 -
341530 -         [On 951012 discussed with SCU at ref SDS 25 9403,
341531 -
341532 -         [On 960518 "meaning drift" cited in Landauer's paper explains
341533 -         "knowledge creep." ref SDS 47 3734]
341535 -      ..
341536 -     It occurs in the human mind as a biological phenomena in
341537 -     resolving the relationship between information and time.
341539 -      ..
341540 -     It occurs in organizations such as companies, institutions, and
341541 -     entire cultures, as seen from the analysis of the need for going
341542 -     to the museum in the NWO paper, ref OF 2 6221, per work on 950812.
341543 -     ref SDS 19 0112 and ref SDS 19 4371
341544 -
341546 -      ..
341547 -     Remedy - Metrics of Law and Church
341548 -
341549 -     Lawsuits are metrics for organizations to correct deviations from
341550 -     accepted practice, from work on 950818 to update the NWO paper,
341551 -     ref SDS 20 0564; and things like attending church once a week are
341552 -     metrics to help people discover deviations in personal conduct,
341553 -     per discussion at Yosemite on 950915. ref SDS 24 5730
341555 -      ..
341556 -     People are "witnesses" in a lawsuit and "bear witness" at church
341557 -     as a means to discover what really happened, i.e., to gain
341558 -     enlightenment and thereby avoid or correct "knowledge creep."
341560 -      ..
341561 -     [On 951031 correlation to "Reality Monitoring" ref SDS 27 3488.]
341562 -
341563 -
341565 -  ..
341566 - Tending the Garden of Knowledge
341567 - Adjusting Perceptions - SDS Links
341568 -
341569 - When I periodically decide, for example as today, that a subject needs
341570 - more careful consideration, one of the tasks to accomplish is to step
341571 - through the chronology to evaluate and adjust the links which have
341572 - "creeped" away as a result of interceeding events, called "time" per
341573 - discussion at SCU on 951012. ref SDS 25 9403 and ref SDS 25 8488
341574 -
341575 -      [On 971105 solved "Knowledge Creep" in the SDS program, so it can
341576 -      do a better job of solving it in the human mind. ref SDS 54 3266]
341578 -  ..
341580 -  ..
341581 - This is another part of "knowledge creep" that may warrant directed
341582 - study with respect to what is occurring in the human mind.  While we
341583 - are unable to see with our eyes and consciously evaluate whether a
341584 - relationhip still exists and to physically adjust it as occurs with
341585 - SDS links, it seems likely that as we experience life, and consider
341586 - what has been experienced, a process of constant adjustment is
341587 - occurring in the subconscious.
341589 -  ..
341590 - What I want to accomplish in checking links is to develop a consistent
341591 - line of understanding, and discover the support for any perceived
341592 - factual beliefs and/or causual relationships, so that a conscious
341593 - decision can be made with directed attention about whether
341594 - interceeding events warrant a different conclusion or change in
341595 - direction.  So this is a constant process of "alignment."  One part is
341596 - factual, the other is assessment of implications.
341597 -
341599 -      ..
341600 -     Knowledge, Converted from Information
341601 -
341602 -     Thus we might say "knowledge" is a process of creating and
341603 -     maintaining connections of information that create a consistent
341604 -     picture, and also to personal objectives and drives, as filtered
341605 -     through the prism of paradigms (i.e., templates).  This is when we
341606 -     get to the computer capacity to evaluate on or off, yes or no.
341608 -      ..
341609 -     I discussed this with Intel at ref SDS 40 4839.
341610 -
341611 -     "Knowledge" is related to "connections" by Jeromy Campbell's book
341612 -     at ref SDS 1 6006.
341614 -      ..
341615 -     ["Consciousness" was later described as "turning water into wine"
341616 -     in a Time magazine article, ref SDS 41 7211; knowledge is defined
341617 -     as derived from information by Tom Landauer in his paper on
341618 -     "Plato's Problem" at ref SDS 39 5689.]
341620 -      ..
341621 -     [Developed organic structure of consciousness at ref SDS 45 5672.]
341623 -      ..
341624 -     [Later "intelligence" converts information into knowledge, ref SDS
341625 -     50 1191.]
341626 -
341627 -
341628 -
3417 -

SUBJECTS
Remembering (Linked Records - Traceability,

3903 -
390401 -  ..
390402 - Remembering
390403 -
390404 - The need to improve our ability to remember is integral to thinking
390405 - and communicating is apparent from occassions when people have
390406 - forgotten what they have seen, heard, said, experienced.  Their
390407 - internal mental links have creeped away because such links were not of
390408 - sufficient importance to be given a high enough charge and/or they did
390409 - not fit well into a high order schema of related matters, and/or they
390410 - have been jumbled with other interceeding events.  What may occur is
390411 - that there is a single key link to a wide array of stuff, and once
390412 - that one link is restored, all the other is remembered as well.  A
390413 - critical aspect to remembering is having a variety of paths to memory.
390415 -     ..
390416 -    Examples
390417 -
390418 -    •  Can't remember how to explain SDS, or having previously
390419 -       explained it on 951103, ref SDS 29 8870.
390420 -
390421 -    •  Can't remember receiving documents, ref SDS 34 7400.
390422 -
390423 -    •  Can't remember considering ideas, ____________________
390424 -
390425 -    •  Remembering is enhanced by writing on 951027, ref SDS 26 8640
390426 -       and at ref SDS 26 7763.
390427 -
390428 -    •  Wasting time arguing about what was said at the last meeting
390429 -       because people remember differently, ref SDS 16 1842, and ref
390430 -       SDS 9 1994, ref SDS 45 2943.
390431 -
390432 -    •  <855W Avoid conflict from remembering differently, ref SDS 28
390433 -       line 109.
390434 -
390435 -    •  Avoid litigation and legal expense because people cannot
390436 -       remember what happened or why, ref SDS 11 line 322.
390437 -
390438 -    •  How to use software or other tools, ref SDS 9 line 60.
390440 -  ..
390441 - See correlation with management challenges ref SDS 12 line 166.
390442 -
390443 -      Other examples are at ref SDS 12 line 182.
390444 -
390445 -
390446 -
390447 -
3905 -

SUBJECTS
Welch Management Method
Continual Learning, History
Vision, Wisdom, Experience
Leadership & Change, 930119
Common Sense, Intuition, Learning
Story - Information in context that creates

5408 -
5409 -   ..
540901 - Traceability and continually learning relative to case studies
540902 - as comprising an encyclopedia of experience, are described above.
540903 -
540905 -  ..
540906 - Common Sense, Judgement
540907 - Vision, Experience, Wisdom
540908 -
540909 - I later developed the correlation between the Welch Management method
540910 - identified by Morris at, ref SDS 3 4930, and between information and
540911 - knowledge at ref SDS 35 9402.
540912 -
540913 -     [Analysis of mental patterns forming "data," then information,
540914 -     knowledge, vision, etc., ref SDS 49 4833, ref SDS 44 3502, and ref
540915 -     SDS 47 2222.]
540917 -      ..
540918 -     [Discussed concept of "stories" with Intel for Asilomar ref SDS 49
540919 -     7361 and at ref SDS 48 1485.]
540920 - ..
540921 - The correlation between wisdom and common sense from discussion
540922 - with Morris is at ref SDS 35 0022, and between vision, experience and
540923 - wisdom at ref SDS 35 7330.
540925 -  ..
540926 - Induction theory of learning is at ref SDS 38 line 161 and on the
540927 - value of a lot of experience is at ref SDS 38 line 201 and ref SDS 38
540928 - line 297.  The mathematical explanation of mentally converting
540929 - information into knowledge is at ref SDS 39 line 184.
540931 -  ..
540932 - The value of history is explained at ref SDS 5 line 636, ref SDS 5
540933 - line 669 and was later discussed with Intel at ref SDS 49 line 447.
540935 -  ..
540936 -
540937 - "Stories" are discussed in paper for Asilomar in record on 960620 at
540938 - ref SDS 48 1485 and at ref SDS 30 line 54.
540939 -
540940 -     [Used "story" to explain difference between data and information
540941 -     in letter to Dave Vannier on Asilomar on 960509. ref SDS 44 7723]
540942 -
540944 -  ..
540946 -  ..
540947 - Slowing down to speed up is discussed in reviewing Robert McNamera's
540948 - book, "In Retrospect" on how to avoid hubris, ref SDS 13 line 335, an
540949 - example is from working with Intel at ref SDS 33 line 190, and
540950 - reflects the impact of the New World Order that requires faster
540951 - decisions with less time for analysis described by Henry Kissinger in
540952 - his book Diplomacy, ref SDS 8 line 167.
540954 -  ..
540955 - J.C. Penny story, looking back to farther ahead, shows vast experience
540956 - leads to failing eye sight in old age, but brings broader vision, ref
540957 - SDS 13 line 177.
540959 -  ..
540960 - The example of "driving by looking in the rear view mirror" which
540961 - reflects the value of experience, past is prologue, is from a meeting
540962 - with Ron Buck at ref SDS 5 line 492, and later discussion with Ron
540963 - Howard at Stanford, ref SDS 22 line 97.
540964 - ..
540965 - The example showing the value of experience to provide vision,
540966 - common sense and wisdom is from explanation of Andy Grove, CEO at
540967 - Intel, using the Welch Management Method, and the General Vernon
540968 - Walters at ref SDS 42 line 601 which is applied in letter to PMI Comm.
540969 - at ref SDS 43 line 181.
540971 -  ..
540972 - Support from Cognitive Science is at ref SDS 38 line 357.
540973 -
540974 -
540976 -  ..
540977 - Vision v. Vision Statement/Goals
540978 -
540979 - It seems like the TQM approach to set out a "vision statement" may be
540980 - a misnomer relative to the meaning of "vision" as projecting an
540981 - outcome based on experience, ref SDS 15 line 163.  The purpose of a
540982 - "Vision Statement" is to identify a desired outcome, which seems more
540983 - closely related to the meaning of "goal."  Hopefully the goal is
540984 - supported by adequate knowledge, wisdom and vision, but in some
540985 - respects a goal can transcend knowledge and vision, assuming vision is
540986 - predicated on experience under the inducation theory of learning, ref
540987 - SDS 40 line 297.  Goals can reach beyond experience, but vision
540988 - cannot.  It can only inform as to the liklihood of reaching a goal.
540989 - Wisdom might be said to judge the adequacy of the goal.
540990 -
540991 -
540992 -
540993 -
5410 -