"HI, I’M A KNOWLEDGE WORKER, IT’S NICE TO MEET YOU"
by Jonathan Spira Despite the fact that there are 56 million of us out there, people continue to struggle both with the definition of a knowledge worker as well as with self-identification. If we are...
View ArticleCIO.com: Information Overload is Killing You and Your Productivity
In an article called “Information Overload is Killing You and Your Productivity,” CIO.com’s Thomas Wailgum cites a new report from The Burton Group. It says information overload has ramped up in IT...
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Info Overload – a view from the political summit
An interesting article in the BBC News magazine recently afforded us a rare glimpse into the problem as seen from the perspective of two politicians – no less than Barack Obama and British opposition...
View ArticleLots going on in the information overload world
IORG isn’t the only group of people interested in the problem of information overload. Here’s a glimpse at some of the other stuff going on in the IO world. On the academic side, a workshop on...
View ArticleThe awareness problem
The other day I gave a lecture about Information Overload at a technology conference. Afterward a number of attendees approached me to discuss it. I asked one of them – himself employed at a technology...
View ArticleEmail and the Polycom…
We all know those meetings where everyone is “doing email”; we know that this affects the attendees’ hearing – nobody listens. But there are cases where it also affects their speech, as transmitted to...
View ArticleGood and Bad Multitasking?
I was looking at the interesting web site of Canadian SciFi author Robert J. Sawyer and found an article in which he discusses Multitasking, and views it quite positively. In fact he says “The...
View ArticleInformation Overload – The Movie!
Our friends at Basex have been talking to people about Info Overload for a long time, but for some months now they had the excellent idea of capturing what senior managers had to say about it on video....
View ArticleFighting IO: a Sisyphean or a Herculean challenge?
I’ve been engaged in the battle on Information Overload since 1995, when it exploded across Intel – where I was Computing Productivity manager at the time – with the now familiar devastation to...
View ArticleThe Wave that Overwhelms
The New York Post recently cited IORG in an insightful article about information overload and a sidebar focused on fixing the problem. In “Going Under: Information overload is drowning office workers,”...
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Slides from IO Day 2015
What a great Information Overload Awareness Day we had this year, thanks to our two speakers, Yoram Kalman and Francis Wade, and special presentation from board member Jonathan Spira. The insights and...
View ArticleFive Tips to Reduce Information Overload on Information Overload Day
By Jonathan Spira Information Overload causes people to lose their ability to manage thoughts and ideas, contemplate, and even reason and think. It has resulted in work days that never seem to end,...
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