---------------------- Forwarded by Mike McConnell/HOU/ECT on 01/08/2001 
06:38 AM ---------------------------


rudy hirschheim <rudy@uh.edu> on 01/06/2001 03:36:47 AM
To: mike.mcconnell@enron.com
cc:  
Subject: reqeust


Dear Mr. McConnell, my name is Rudy Hirschheim, and I'm the past Director
of the Information Systems Research Center at the University of Houston.
Enron is a member of our group and I was friends with Alberto Gude, Enron's
former IT Director. I have a request that I wondered if you could help with.

Perez Companc - a big oil and gas company in Argentina - is trying to
understand how some of the big US companies are dealing with IT. Basically
interested in issues such as sourcing arrangements, structure
(centralized/decentralized/distributed), customer relationships, use of
packaged software, 'e' issues, and such like. They want me to try to set up
meetings with some key US companies here in Houston. Among the companies
which I suggested they talk to is yours. Do you think someone/some group
would be willing to talk to a contingent of Perez Companc folks? Would
Enron be willing to share things which weren't considered
competitive secrets with them?? They were hoping to come up either the
first or second week in March. My role is to try to put together visits to
the Shell/Texaco JV, Shell, Texaco, Exxon-Mobil, Conoco, BHP, Enron,
Chevron. Do you think it is possible? Again, nothing of a competitive
nature has to be offered, they just are trying to determine what they ought
to be doing with respect to IT.

Thanks in advance.

------Rudy Hirschheim



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  Rudy Hirschheim
  Tenneco/Chase International Chair & Professor of Information Systems
  C.T. Bauer College of Business
  University of Houston
  Houston, TX. USA 77204-6282
  [web] http://www.cba.uh.edu/~rudy/hirrud.htm
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