FRENCH REPUBLIC CHICAGO Wednesday November 5, 1997

The 5/11/97 PARIS-CHICAGO - UA 943 - Departure 11h50 Arrived 13h59, Terminal 5 : Reception by Elizabeth Schubert
Hotel:
Days Inn Lake Shore Drive
644 N Lake Shore Dr.. Chicago, IT USED such: 312-943-9200

afternoon

14h00: 18h00
PEE of Chicago

Interlocutors:

• Daniel GAGNEUX, Chief of Station
• Jean Vaury,
• Margo Dietz, Webmaster Intranet
• Jean-Pierre Novak, Division Industry
• Elizabeth Schubert,

General presentation of the program of visits.
Presentation of Intranet of the PEE, under development, with vocation to be extended to the other PEE.

morning

10h00: A. Finkl & Sounds - Chicago It (activity: forging mills / 400 employees) interlocutor: Dave Laurenson

to lunch

Wrestling Thirty-Five (35 W Wacker, 312-346-350)
with people of the P.E.E. from Chicago (Jean VAURY, Jean-Pierre NOVAK,

Elizabeth SCHUBERT) and Mr. Christopher GALASSI, Consultant - IPLI (Innovative Projects Lab, Inc.)
IPLI developed " Subway Server ", a model of simulation of the development of the companies,
using HTML and JAVA, which can function in interactive mode on Internet or Intranet.

afternoon

14h30:

Néoglyphics Chicago IT (activity: creation of Internet sites, extranet / 90 employees) interlocutors: Vikas RIJSINGHANI, Marty SARUSSI Young 2,5 year old startup, Neoglyphics explains its success by the regrouping of three types of competences: Design and publicity Software (JAVA, Web design) Consulting near the customers The activity is completely dedicated to Web technologies: 30% Internet. ex: Yellow Pages) Chicago Sun-Times Online (us) netMarket® : "Your Site for Savings on the Web" (us) 70% Intranet-Extranet (ex: Sears, Roebuck & Co.)

17h30:
RDV with Mr. Daniel GAGNEUX, Chief of the P.E.E. from Chicago

morning

10h30: Rockford Area Chamber of Commerce, Rockford, IT Interlocutor: Ryan Petty, President with Denise Wood, International Trade Coordinator Services, Rockford Council of 100 The CCI of Rockford, profiting very early from a line with high flow T1 launched an ambitious program: by creating Web sites for several companies Besly Products Corporation The WAL*MART Web Site! Magnet Camwood Martin Automatic Rockford Products Rockford Systems Southern Imperial by causing active communities of volunteers by installing a room of initiation and formation equipped with 8 stations of access to Web with high flow.

to lunch

afternoon

13h30: Valley Drive Systems Rockford, It (activity: automobile subcontractor / 150 employees) Interlocutor: Bernard Mr. Powers Director of Marketing Have minimal a Web site (creation 350$, lodging 115$/an), intended to present the company, which operates on a world niche: the rebuilding of the automobile halfshafts of propulsion. Mr. POWERS is enough skeptic on the use of Internet in general. One finds much information without interest there, which does not exclude some interesting exceptions: the E-mail for personal use air reservations remote loading of programmes of piloting of the machine tools (fast, and sufficiently sure) Currently, the personnel of the company (149 people, partly on 2 stations) does not use the Intranet functions. Management does not want to connect the internal network on the exterior, by fear of the viruses. For its relationships to its network of 1200 " rebuilders ", the company prefers to diffuse its catalogue by CD-Rom (sold 6,50$) which makes it possible to better adapt, using " supplements ", to some local characteristics of the first assembles (ex: Mexico). For its needs for inventory, the company had to yield with the standard " Universal Protocol " of marking of the parcels by bar code.