Re: Japan trip

Joe,

Thanks for the response. As you heard from Cathy, I got a stomach virus and
all 4 of us in the family spent Saturday night throwing up. I am writing
this from my bed and I am improving. I should be able to get on the plane
tomorrow and am about to eat lunch (1st meal since Sat. but I think it will
be fine). I'm definitely in recovery mode.

I am having everything messengered out to my house later this afternoon but
am concerned about contacts and getting to the hotel. I know you have said
that it is easy to take the train and the bus but I am concerned about it,
especially if i am still a little under the weather. I still don't want to
have a car, but would you please set up someone on your staff to meet me at
the gate and escort me through the process. Sorry if it is a pain but I
think I might need it and it will make me feel much more comfortable on the
flight over knowing that I will have assistance.

Thanks for your help and I'll see you soon.

Mike McConnell

Joseph P Hirl@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
06/11/2000 09:35 PM
To: Mike McConnell/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Tokyo Admin_1/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, ranai@ck9.so-net.ne.jp
Subject: Re: Japan trip

Mike,

Also looking forward to seeing you. See comments to your questions below:

Joe

Mike McConnell@ECT
06/12/2000 06:48 AM
To: Joseph P Hirl/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
cc: Cathy Phillips/HOU/ECT@ECT
Subject: Re: Japan trip

Joe,

Thanks for the email. I am looking forward to the trip and learning more
about what you are doing thus how we can help. If we would have had any idea
that Europe could have been as big as it has become, we would have done some
things differently and we can get a head start with Japan. This would be
most helpful. We are clearly trying to avoid the traps that we ran into in
Europe and in the US. Faster, quicker, smarter. Thursday sounds great and
just let me know about Friday. Is Anthony in japan during the trip? Anthony
was here last week and will be back the week after you arrive. Remember, I
am not a technologist and therefore can't discuss technology specific
applications just the business concepts and potential ideas and
opportunities. We clearly want your business insight wrt the setup and focus
of the business. I will send you a presentation that we recently gave to
Sherriff. It is mostly up to date although continually changing. This will
help give you a feeling for what the landscape looks like. On Wed, however,
I would like to take you through our web presentation and how this fits into
our overall strategy.

A couple of other questions about the trip. Do you want me to make any
presentations while i am there or simply talk about our plans? I don't think
presentations are necessary unless you would feel more comfortable or have
something particularly appropriate. The discussion with EPower/EJ on
Thursday afternoon would be good if you could speak about Net Works and what
Enron is doing across the focus areas. On Friday, I believe that in the
proposed meeting with Softbank a presentation is not necessary. For the
ACCJ, if you had a couple of slides on Enron and our e-comm initiatives this
would be great. We could put this together here if you would like as I have
a couple of your recent presentations. Let me know. Also, what is the
appropriate dress code. The Japanese still dress up. I'm afraid suits are
de rigour. I am assuming suits but i didn't want to make any assumptions
about new cultures. Do you have any cultural facts that you can fax me about
the do's and don'ts of both cultures? We could try and find something, but I
think you will find that the Japanese are trying to become more western.
Despite what you have heard, this place is not as foreign as rumored. Do I
have clear instruction how to take the train from the airport. All of us get
back and forth on the train and the bus. We can get you a driver, but you
won't get here any faster and is quite expensive (US$500 one way). I
normally get a driver, I am uncomfortable in new countries that I can't speak
any of the language. If there is a way to get lost, I'll find a way.

One more item, could you please have your assistant set up a message for me
at the hotel. I am usually very stiff and sore after a long trip and it
really helps. Make sure it gives me a enough time to arrive to the hotel
after the trip. I would also prefer a female if that is acceptable to the
Japanese culture. Ono will set something set up here. The hotel has its own
massage service that can be accessed at almost all hours.

Thanks,
Mike

Joseph P Hirl@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
06/07/2000 07:25 PM
To: Mike McConnell/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:
Subject: Re: Japan trip

Mike,

We are looking to accomplish a number of things while you are here over
Thursday and Friday. Thursday's schedule is fairly set, and we are working
on Friday. Thursday morning through to the afternoon we would present to you
the current state of the business and the initiatives/proposition/etc for
enron.co.jp. This would take us through mid afternoon. We would then go
over to EPower and we would ask you to give a talk on the state of technology
at Enron and the initiatives within Net Works. We would bring EJ over to
EPower for your talk. Afterwards we would have drinks with the main
commercial team at EPower and EJ. Dinner to be arranged for a smaller
group. On Friday, we would like to use the time to set up some meetings with
key IT/tech companies here in Japan. To date, we have not yet met any of
these companies, but there is currently an extraordinary amount of activity
in the country. We are looking to leverage some of Enron's banking
relationships to get as high a level meeting as possible with the likes of
Softbank. We are also asking for other suggestions from the banks. We are
also considering a potential talk with the American Chamber of Commerce on
Enron and Enron Technology. The ACCJ is one of the most active and largest
chambers in the world and bring in some quite interesting speakers. We will
have more on this.

For the weekend we have recd some suggestions from the Hotel and will pass
these along to you shortly.

I will be travelling with you on Sunday on the trip to Seoul.

Joe

To: Joseph P Hirl/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT
cc: Cathy Phillips/HOU/ECT@ECT
Subject: Japan trip

Joe,

I am looking forward to the upcoming trip.

Everything is all set for Korea but what do you suggest as an agenda for my
two days in Tokyo? Also are there some presentations or items that i could
review before I arrive that you believe might be helpful? I will also be
there over a weekend, I would like to do some site seeing on Sat and Sunday
(my flight to Korea leaves on Sunday late afternoon). I would appreciate
some suggestions and I will need a guide, could you have someone arrange it
for me?

Thanks, and Cathy will co-ordinate everything.

Mike