MULTIPLE VIEWPOINT SYSTEM

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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)