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DIARY: August 6, 1997 09:31 AM Wednesday; Rod Welch

Received notice AFIT will try to support research on Comm Metrics.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Entropy Information Reflects "Noise" - Need Communication Metrics
3...Communication Manager Needed for Knowledge Space Like Cadd Engineer


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SUBJECTS
Cost/Benefit of Better Communications
Market Fears Being First to Use New Methods
Communication Manager Fewer People More
Cost Benefit - Increase Usefulness, Reduce
Level of Effort, Calculate Cost Benefit
Overhead Managers are Unproductive
Risk Management, Contingency Analysis, Value at Risk
Entropy in Communications
Guess Gossip Commedy of Errors Murphy's Law
Communication Manager

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1513 - Summary/Objective
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151401 - Followed up work at ref SDS 9 0000, ref SDS 8 0000.
151402 -
151403 - Kirk Vaughan at AFIT says he and Craig Brandt will try to make a
151404 - constructive response within 2 weeks to my letter for assistance in
151405 - calculating the rate of entropy in projects.
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151407 -    [On 970924 AFIT cannot respond to research inquiry. ref SDS 10 1802
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1517 - Progress
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151801 - Entropy Information Reflects "Noise" - Need Communication Metrics
151802 -
151803 - Received ref DRT 1 0000 from Kirk Vaughan at AFTI, responding to my
151804 - letter, ref DIP 4 0000 issed on 960805, ref SDS 9 6884, to explain my
151805 - objective of working with resarchers and to locate studies on the
151806 - impact of information flow on management productivity and program cost
151807 - and schedule, per AFIT's article ref OF 1 8448 analysed on 970707. see
151808 - ref SDS 4 0611
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151810 - Kirk says he and Craig Brandt will repsond within a few weeks.
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151812 - Kirk's email includes my original message, ref DIP 4 0000, but
151813 - it is scrambled by wrapping the ends of lines.
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151815 - I submitted ref DIT 1 8344 to ask if they need re-submission, and made
151816 - a joke about adding to information entropy, which is the subject of
151817 - this inquiry. ref DIT 1 3726
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151821 - Communication Manager Needed for Knowledge Space Like Cadd Engineer
151822 -
151823 - I explain "knowledge space" v. "dimensional space" analogy, ref DIT 1
151824 - 4444, and clarify my inquiry by explaining the need to justify the
151825 - cost of a Communication Manager, ref DIT 1 4442, analogized to an
151826 - engineer who uses CADD, and an architect, cited in the Corps of
151827 - Engineers' report on Communication Metrics, ref DRP 4 5390 and
151828 - developed in the SDS record at ref SDS 2 4455 and ref SDS 1 3516. This
151829 - is similar to "pilot" analogy discussed with LTC Thompson at the San
151830 - Francisco District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at a meeting on
151831 - 960624. ref SDS 3 1829.
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151833 - Related concern about added value of a new player based on evaluating
151834 - level of effort staff, ref DIT 1 8846.  Explained Corps of Engineers
151835 - report and General Hatch's description of Communication Metrics as an
151836 - "intelligence" role. Asked if they want a copy, ref DIT 1 8834.
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