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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Kenneth A. Megill</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kenneth A. Megill"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <B>The Author</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contents">Contents</A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id150.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Introduction">Introduction</A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="02ad2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <B>The Author</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id154.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contents">Contents</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id150.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Introduction">Introduction</A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="121e87c0.jpg" border=0 width="232" height="380" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>The Author</I></div> <bR> <div> Ken Megill is a transformer of organizations and people. He is a published professional philosopher and teacher and a forty year member of the American Philosophical Association. He spent his last twenty years in the practical pursuit of knowledge management. He is a certified records manager, a certified archivist and holds a master of library and information science degree. He has been an organizer and president of the trade union representing 8,000 faculty and professional employees in Florida. His previous books include a consideration of how corporate memory can be preserved in the electronic age, a discussion of the management of a large number of documents, a handbook on managing information for government agencies, and a book on democratic political theory. </div> <bR> <div> Terry Balven was responsible for the Appendix. He is currently working for the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition to establish the position of chief information officer for the acquisition community. His charter is to build an organization and methodology to organize and direct an array of improvement initiatives associated with information, knowledge, and their uses. The goal is to align process change, investments in information technology, and change in how people think about work in order to deliver transformational improvement in how the Air Force and Department of Defense acquire weapon systems. He served thirty years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a colonel after a wide variety of operational and staff assignments. Colonel Balven directed the integrated digital environment project for the United States Air Force, which was led by Ken Megill. </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>