How much time do you waste searching for information?

Submitted by Corey Smith on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 04:03
It is estimated that organizations waste as much as 10% of their time because employees can't find some information. (Datamonitor) Atle Skjekkeland points us to the Datamonitor study and says:
Over 50% of staff costs are now for employees performing information work. But the employees are suffering from both information overload and information underload, and as a result they spend up to 25% of their day searching for the right information. Datamonitor argues that this why some organizations could be frittering away as much as 10% of their staff costs on wasted effort. The report goes on to say that ineffective search and discovery strategies are hampering business competitiveness, impairing service deliver, and putting companies at risk.
So, how much time do you waste?
Corey Smith is the Vice President of Innovation at Fisher’s Document Systems.


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