1. something new was added to the
world with the multiple
viewpoint system. What's this new system? Well, you see everything from the
branch office! You
don't see it from headquarters. You have to be as
pan-determined as daylight to even
conceive of such a system. For it's a true
OT system. Every
situation is viewed from the
viewpoint of the
branch office, or the
regiment on the
firing line or the
squadron in the sky. It takes a pretty humble or pretty
OT HQ to say "We
don't have a
viewpoint. We are not important as a
viewpoint. The only
viewpoint that's important is that of the
man on the
firing line, the
Squadron Leader in the sky, the
Colonel actually engaged in battle." So that's a multiple
viewpoint system! The
key is files. Every
org in the
world has a
file for each month in the
data files. As the
data pours in from that
org-telexes,
staff reports,
MO reports,
finance reports, surveys,
personnel records, observations, any and all
data it goes
bang at once into that
org's
file for the month. All in a
folder for that
org for that month. And there's that
org, not only current, but for each month exactly for years back. As
fast as they'
ve been filed they are worked. In other words
read and acknowledged. Queries are handled.
(FBDL 192R) 2. the files are so arranged (one
org, one month of
data) that one can
obtain the
viewpoint of that
org from that
org as though one were in that
org looking out. All former
operations systems on this planet have a
single viewpoint system, that of headquarters. As soon as you
grasp this
fact, that
HQ is no
viewpoint except of headquarters and that all
data puts one's
point of view
right there in an
org, you can
file that way.
(OODs 1 May 72)