Information has become the great leveler of society and business. In 2010, Information Overload cost the U.S. economy almost one trillion dollars. What is Information Overload costing your organization? Written by Jonathan Spira, one of …
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“I don’t really spend that much time on e-mail…” “E-mail sometimes overwhelms my day.”
These two perspectives sound as if they represent two polar extremes in the knowledge workforce, but they actually are coming from the …
Slowly but surely, the corporate world is beginning to realize that the amount of information and data it generates is digging the enterprise into a hole.
It’s no surprise that the buzzword for 2012 is “Big …
There is really one key driver of all of the costs of Information Overload and that’s the phenomenon I discovered early on in my research and which I named Recovery Time.
Recovery Time is the time …
In my book Overload! How Too Much Information Is Hazardous To Your Organization, I wrote that the three trickiest words in the English language may very well be “information,” “knowledge,” and “wisdom.”
To say that their …
As part of a publicity stunt for its 4G LTE Windows Phones, Microsoft set up Free-Time Machines (FTMs) across the country.
What exactly is an FTM, I hear you all cry?
Similar to ATMs, the FTMs essentially …
The only thing worse than getting too much e-mail is not getting the e-mail messages you really need. Missing an important e-mail message can have far-ranging implications, but the only way to 100% guarantee you …
On March 27, The Wall Street Journal published a piece on digital hoarding in an attempt to extend the term from clothing, papers, books, and other objects to digital files and associated it with the …
This past weekend, I unplugged. It turns out that I did this on the National Day of Unplugging but that was purely coincidental.
Over the past few years, I’ve given much thought to the reasons why …
The Economist last week reported on advanced linguistic analysis software that has been designed to “show an employee’s emotional state over time.” The software, developed by Ernst & Young, analyzes the content of e-mail communications …
Have you heard from your favorite retailer recently? If so, it’s probably been via e-mail and you probably didn’t open most of them.
According to research by Responsys, a company that provides marketing tools, the top …
A noted author and expert in the field of Information Overload, Jonathan B. Spira is CEO and chief analyst of Basex, a research firm focusing on issues companies face as they navigate the knowledge economy.
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Airports Open, Some Power Restored, Subways and Buses Running
For some, a sense of normalcy has begun to return to the Northeast. The cleanup continues, more people have power, and operations are starting resume at both …
On Feb. 25, in San Francisco, the Information Overload Research Group will host “Overloaded 2012″, a gathering of people from a diversity of domains such as business, academia, technology, journalism, psychology, and research, committed to …
Robyn Pearce, writing for the New Zealand Herald, outlines the problem of e-mail overload and quotes Jonathan Spira on the impact of interruptions on productivity.
I checked in with Jonathan about recovery time, for all previous …
Almost everyone can identify with the following situation: Your cell phone runs out of battery power, and you need to make a call. A friend graciously offers to let you use his phone, but as …
Jonathan Spira, author of Overload! How Too Much Information Is Hazardous To Our Organization, discusses how and why the way we work has changed dramatically in the past few decades.
