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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: October 7, 1999 03:10 PM Thursday; Rod Welch

Called Dave Vannier on NSF issue at Intel, and Risk Management.

1...Summary/Objective
.............communication is biggest risk of enterprise


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Intel Corporation - Main Office                                                                                                                                    O-00000607 0201
020101 - Mr. David S. Vannier; Director
020103 - IA-64 Product Planning                                                                                                                                           O-00000607 0201

SUBJECTS
Bridge from Known to New Work Methods
Commercial Partners for Phase II Funding
Partners Locate, Develop
NSF Research Support
Communication Main Factor of Success, Management Productivity
Writing SDS Different from Wordprocessing
Risk Management Communication Main Task of Managers, Largest Risk
Risk Management Complexity Mistakes Communication
Rework Mistakes Avoid
Risk Communication Main Factor of Management Success
Knowledge Management Dilemma
Communication Biggest Risk in Enterprise Paradigm Shift of Millennium
Everybody's Talking, Nobody's Listening, No Time to Undrestand

3115 -
3115 -    ..
3116 - Summary/Objective
3117 -
311701 - Follow up ref SDS 28 0000, ref SDS 27 0000.
311702 -
311703 - Left message with Renee for Dave about following up message on 990923,
311704 - and my letter, ref DIP 4 0001, sent on 990921. ref SDS 27 0001
311706 -  ..
311707 - She said Dave has a conference call.
311709 -  ..
311710 - Follows up letter on 990930, ref SDS 32 0001, confirming call to
311711 - Morris on the medical mistakes issue reviewed originally on 990912,
311712 - ref SDS 21 0001, and analysed in a letter to the reporter on 990924
311713 - that explains Com Metrics is needed for Risk Management to avoid
311714 - "meaning drift."
311716 -  ..
311717 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Dave linked to the record on NASA loss of
311718 - space craft reported on 991001, ref SDS 33 0001, and link to Intel's
311719 - difficulty with 820 chip set reported on 990925. ref SDS 31 0001  The
311720 - letter on medical mistakes on 990924 shows common cause of mistakes.
311721 - ref SDS 30 0001
311723 -  ..
311724 - Sent copy to Morris to alert paradigm shift for the mellenium.....
311726 -              ..
311727 -             communication is biggest risk of enterprise
311728 -
311729 -
311730 - ...as explained in POIMS, ref OF 1 VX7N, and NWO. ref OF 2 13LC  This
311731 - point was originally developed from analysis of Drucker's book on
311732 - 931130 that shows executives feel managers won't listen, and managers
311733 - feel executives don't listen, creating the volitile condition of
311734 - everybody talking and nobody listening. ref SDS 3 3851  Later on
311735 - 950911 review of the Toffler's work showed support for the idea that
311736 - information overload hides understanding from daily communication and
311737 - other work, that prevents using good management practices. ref SDS 5
311738 - 4E3N
311739 -
311740 -    [On 991207 submitted copy of letter to Morris. ref SDS 39 0001]
311742 -     ..
311743 -    [On 991208 Morris attributed problems in the world to communication
311744 -    mistakes caused by bad luck. ref SDS 40 0001
311746 -     ..
311747 -    [On 001011 submitted research project to SRI for a study on meaning
311748 -    drift. ref SDS 41 NW6N
311750 -     ..
311751 -    [On 010126 Cliff Joslyn's paper on KM fails to explain the problem
311752 -    at hand, but tries to solve it. ref SDS 42 V8WN
311754 -  ..
311755 - Communication Metrics provides proactive risk management using SDS to
311756 - align, organize, analyse, summarize and obtain feedback, under the
311757 - theory that using "intelligence avoids mistakes. ref OF 1 0582
311759 -  ..
311760 - On 990303 research in cognitive science, work by George Miller, shows
311761 - that natural human efforts to aid memory, by paraphrasing, recodes
311762 - information to understand context in relation to personal experience,
311763 - which causes meaning drift, unless there is a proactive effort using
311764 - SDS to maintain alignment with original sources. ref SDS 12 2838
311766 -  ..
311767 - On 990625 article in Fortune found these execution fundamentals are
311768 - essential for CEOs to succeed. ref SDS 13 7344 and ref SDS 13 7888
311770 -  ..
311771 - Linked to meaning drift on 960518, ref SDS 7 3734, which is a theme in
311772 - letter on medical mistakes that uses the "Telephone Game" as a
311773 - humerous way to explain the problem. ref SDS 30 3955  On 970624
311774 - Operation Haley's Comet illustrates meaning drift with an example from
311775 - the military. ref SDS 10 7006
311777 -  ..
311778 - Linked to humor on "new math," submitted by Bill Benkavitch on
311779 - 990923. ref SDS 29 0001
311781 -  ..
311782 - Linked to example on 940611 of ship that sank at sea. ref SDS 4 8473
311783 -
311784 -    [On 991008 contacted reporter on article about NASA crash on Mars.
311785 -    ref SDS 34 0001]
311786 -
311787 -    [On 991010 Morris suggests solution to Mars crash is using a
311788 -    "calculator." ref SDS 35 4440]
311790 -     ..
311791 -    [On 991028 sent follow up to Morris. ref SDS 36 0001]
311793 -     ..
311794 -    [On 991101 explain meaning drift that makes communication biggest
311795 -    risk in management. ref SDS 37 2800]
311797 -     ..
311798 -    [On 991130 culture and meaning drift prevent feedback that make
311799 -    communication biggest risk in management. ref SDS 38 4664]
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