743 (Objet application/pdf) Recovering from information overload - McKinsey Quarterly - Organization - Talent. For all the benefits of the information technology and communications revolution, it has a well-known dark side: information overload and its close cousin, attention fragmentation.
These scourges hit CEOs and their colleagues in the C-suite particularly hard because senior executives so badly need uninterrupted time to synthesize information from many different sources, reflect on its implications for the organization, apply judgment, make trade-offs, and arrive at good decisions. The importance of reserving chunks of time for reflection, and the difficulty of doing so, have been themes in management writing for decades. Look no further than Peter Drucker’s 1967 classic, The Effective Executive, which emphasized that “most of the tasks of the executive require, for minimum effectiveness, a fairly large quantum of time.” Yet they are devilishly difficult to implement, and getting more so all the time. Better solutions exist, and they aren’t rocket science. The perils of multitasking Focus.
Information Overload?: Northwestern University News. EVANSTON, Ill. --- “Information overload” may be an exaggerated way to describe today’s always-on media environment.
Actually, very few Americans seem to feel bogged down or overwhelmed by the volume of news and information at their fingertips and on their screens, according to a new Northwestern University study. The study was published in the journal The Information Society. The age of information overload. Victoria Belmont finds out who is really in charge - our technology or us?
From reading emails to managing status updates on mobile devices 24/7 with an all-you-can-eat data plan - we are consuming information like never before. Forget about describing bytes as mega and giga, think exa and zetta because by 2016 there may be the data equivalent of every movie ever made hurtling across the internet every three minutes. Consequences. Digital Information Overload Overwhelms and Distracts Students. Is technology distracting to students?
Image by Justin Crann The most recent nationally-representative surveys of the Pew Internet Project found that 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones. These results emphasize the considerable amount of activity teens invest in surfing the Internet, using social networking and accessing their mobile devices. What Information Overload Does To Your Brain. Improve efficiency – switch off your smartphone. One of the great cautionary adages of our culture is: "Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it.
" And it applies in spades to the kind of instantaneous, always-on connectivity that many of us now enjoy, courtesy of the internet and mobile phones. Except that enjoy is perhaps not quite the right word. Talk to any busy person nowadays about the joys of email, for example, and the most common response is a rueful shrug. A technology that was once a magical tool for communicating has somehow become a millstone round people's necks. It was bad enough when email was confined to desktop PCs. Email has become the central communications channel of all modern organisations, to the point where none of them could now function without it. In the old world of desktop PCs, you could at least leave it behind when you left the office.
Deep down, most of us know this. These personal strategies appear to work for a week or two, but they're doomed to failure. 12 outils pour mieux gérer l'infobésité des médias sociaux. 2 avril 2012 L’infobésité, traduction de l’expression anglaise « information overload » est très certainement l’effet secondaire le moins agréable qui découle de l’avènement des médias sociaux.
Déjà en 2007, selon emarketer, les gestionnaires peinaient à trouver l’information pertinente au sujet de leur propre compagnie ou de la compétition, sans parler des courriels qui ne cessent de croitre avec quantité de gens qui nous mettent en copie conforme (c.c.), les infolettres auxquelles on s’abonne, etc. 12 conseils pour éviter de s’écrouler sous les flux d’informations. Depuis quelques temps, la problématique de l’infobésité ou la surinformation devient de plus en plus récurrente, et on se retrouve avec certaines figures crier ‘Heeeeeeelp’
Three Keys to Beating Information Overload. This column will change your life: information overload. There's a new add-on for Gmail called Inbox Pause, which does something utterly simple – it adds a pause button to your inbox – but represents, I think, a new phase in our long war against information overload.
Consider the absurdity. Inbox Pause doesn't reduce the quantity of emails that bombard you. Nor does it help you answer them faster. In any case, there's already a perfectly good way to "pause" your email: just don't check your damn email for a few hours. Or just resist the temptation to open new ones. I've been using it for several weeks now, and I love it.
Infogineering - Master Your Information. Information Overload is an increasing problem both in the workplace, and in life in general.
Those that learn to deal with it effectively will have a major advantage in the next few years. Information Overload is when you are trying to deal with more information than you are able to process to make sensible decisions. The result is either that you either delay making decisions, or that you make the wrong decisions. It is now commonplace to be getting too many e-mails, reports and incoming messages to deal with them effectively. Information Overload is Not Just Filter Failure. Craig Roth Managing Vice President: Communication, Collaboration, and Content 4 years at Gartner 25 years IT industry Craig Roth is a vice president and service director for Gartner Research, in Burton Group's Collaboration and Content Strategies service.
Mr. Roth covers a wide range of knowledge and Web-related topics at the intersection of collaboration, content… Read Full Bio Coverage Areas: by Craig Roth | July 11, 2012 | 3 Comments A while ago Clay Shirkey asserted that there is no information overload, just filter failure. I describe enterprise attention management as consisting of two mechanisms: pulling forward and pushing back. But I think a more serious problem is the information that’s just sitting out there, not calling for your attention, but that you should notice. Consider walking in to a library trying to find the page where someone said “Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.” #Lift12 : Notre surcharge informationnelle en perspective. Une passionnante lecture de Xavier de la Porte nous a récemment présenté Anaïs Saint-Jude (@anaisaintjude), fondatrice et responsable du programme BiblioTech de la bibliothèque de Stanford.