Overload! : how too much information is hazardous to your organization /
"This groundbreaking book reveals how different kinds of information overload impacts workers and businesses as a whole. It helps businesses get a grip on the financial costs of e-mail overload and interruptions and how working in an information overloaded environment impacts employee productio...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
[2011]
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Overload!: How Too Much Information is Hazardous to Your Organization; Contents; Foreword: Fighting the Good Fight against Information Bloat; Preface; A Note to the Reader; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Way Work Was; The Age of the Knowledge Worker; Mark Rivington's Day; A Global Economy; Great Moments and Milestones in Information Overload History; Part I: How We Got Here; Chapter 1: Information, Please?; Chapter 2: History of Information; The Information Revolution and the Book; E-readers Rising; After the Book ... Getting the Word Out; The New News Cycle.
- Chapter 3: Welcome to the Information AgeIs Software Holding Us Back?; The Tools We Use; Mid-Nineteenth-Century Tools: Groundwork Is Laid; Twentieth-Century Tools: The Foundation for the Information Revolution; Breakthroughs in Productivity; Online Collaboration Makes Its Entrance; Enter Charlie Chaplin; Enter the Office Suite; An Office for the Twenty-First Century; The Problem with Documents; The Collaborative Business Environment; Chapter 4: What Is Information?; Quantifying Information; Why Information Is Exploding; How Information Is Going beyond Network and Storage Capabilities.
- Structured versus Unstructured InformationData Mining to the Rescue?; Chapter 5: The Information Consumer; Chapter 6: What Is Information Overload?; Meetings: Too Much of a Good Thing?; How Long Has This Been Going On?; More Information
- Isn't that What We Wanted?; Information Overload and the Tragedy of the Commons; The Ephemerization of Information; Chapter 7: The Cost of Information Overload; In Search of a Management Science; Chapter 8: What Hath Information Overload Wrought?; Aspects of Information Overload; Information Overload-Related Maladies; The Compatibility Conundrum.
- Chapter 9: The Two FredsEntitlement; Mad about Information; Work-Life Balance; Chapter 10: Beep. Beep. Beep.; How Much Texting Is Too Much?; Sample Text Phraseology; The Search for Whatever It Is We Are Looking For; Chapter 11: Heading for a Nervous Breakdown; Thinking for a Living; The Roundtable; How the Other Half Lives; The New Busy Is Heading for a Nervous Breakdown; Part II: Where We Are and What We Can Do; Chapter 12: Managing Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 13: Components of Information Overload; E-mail Overload; Unnecessary Interruptions and Recovery Time.
- Need for Instant GratificationEverything Is Urgent
- and Important; Chapter 14: E-mail; The Cost of Too Much E-mail; E-mail and the Network Effect; Reply to All; Profanity in E-mail (Expletive Deleted); A Day Without E-mail; What to Do With 2.5 Billion E-mail Messages; Deleting E-mail, Deleting Knowledge; Chapter 15: The Googlification of Search; Search and the Quest for the Perfect Dishwasher; The Search Experience; Does the King of the Watusis Drive an Automobile?; Chapter 16: Singletasking; Attention; Three Types of Attention; Automaticity; The Supertaskers Among Us.
