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12.24.09How You Lowered Your Information StandardsIn my last blog, I argued that people don't care enough about their information environments to prevent overload. This week I am focusing on a related behavioral change that has important implications for companies that produce information products and services: As information grows in quantity, consumers of it are willing to accept lower quality. I call this willingness satisficing — being satisfied with sacrificing quality. I am supported in this contention by one of The New York Times's "The Year in Ideas" items that appeared last Sunday. Called "Good Enough Is the New Great," it describes our society's increasing willingness ...
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12.09.09Why We Don’t Care About Information OverloadI gave a presentation this week on decision-making, and someone in the audience asked me if I thought information overload was an impediment to effective decision-making. "Information overload...yes, I remember that concept. But no one cares about it anymore," I replied. In fact, nobody ever did. But why not? We've been reading articles in the press about information overload being the bane of productivity for almost twenty years. (Here's a link to a fairly recent article in Harvard Business Review on the topic called "Death by Information Overload" and a related blog.) And there is no doubt that the information load ...
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About Me
CIO at Shine Lawyers
Non-exec Director of Ozmota
Non-exec Director of Queensland Kids
Ex CIO/CTO of Ozmota, Benefon and Voxson.Education
Executive MBA from QUT
High Distinction average
Singapore Airlines International Business Award
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Computer Science from QUT
First class honours
High Distinction average
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