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07.30.10The Next GoogleThe Next Google will be a percentile search engine that predicts the likelihood that any combination of knowledge assets can produce or execute any combination of products or services at a known cost based on the supply and demand for those known knowledge assets. End of mystery.
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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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10.01.09How Much is Information Overload Costing Your Company?A blog post I wrote a year ago posed a question: "What's so bad about information overload?" An article I wrote for the September issue of Harvard Business Review answered that question: A lot. The article, "Death by Information Overload," describes some of the ways information overload may be causing you harm: increased stress, impaired cognition, "information addiction." (One study found that 11% of email users had tried to hide, from a spouse or family member, the fact that they were checking their BlackBerries.) The article clearly struck a chord, and people responded with their own personal tales of overload woe. But ...
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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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