Four individuals with broad knowledge of the political scene came to the ER Senior Managers Retreat in early December to share their ideas about what ER might expect. The four presentations stimulated much discussion among the presenters and the ER managers. Richard Celeste described life as a senior political executive in the second term of his office. He thinks Clinton will focus on history and on assuring the survival of his initiatives, and that there will be a bipartisan character to the second term.
Partnerships are best when driven by business needs.
Some results must be available by the next election. The pace of markets and of demand are accelerating greatly and product life cycles are often now only six months long. He spoke of the problems IBM had in providing the information system for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. IBM thought its customer was the Olympic Committee that hired and paid for the system. In reality, the ultimate customers were the media people using the information.