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From: jdm1@eds1.UUCP (Jon McCown)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re^2: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers
Message-ID: <332@eds1.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 89 02:09:12 GMT
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davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:


>  Someone asked how you get people to use email. The secret is to have
>support at the top. If the head honcho starts asking for info by email,
>sending out meeting notices, etc, pretty soon the next level down starts

This _is_ fun to watch.  When the head of our legal staff began shipping
drafts of stuff via email (for review/revision) it was suddenly "the way
to do IT" and requests for email access have poured in.

The change from "_I_ DO NOT TYPE" to "how soon can I get a workstation with
network access?" among professional staff seems to follow an effect similar
to the domino expos....                          

(apologies for the grotesque formatting in my previous long article, a
 bad termcap and vi do not mix well at all :-)

-JDMc

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             J.D. McCown - RCSG Director - Senate of Pennsylvania  
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