Information Overload Knowledge Management

Information Overload Knowledge Management

Information Overload

As the world enters the Knowledge Age, information on virtually every aspect of our lives and businesses is becoming available at an increasing rate. When the availability of information outstrips the time and energy of those who could potentially use it, frustration can result. This condition is often referred to as information overload or infoglut. Left unresolved, this can lead to inefficiency at best, job burnout at worst.

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- Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis.
- Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize, or analyze large numbers of documents. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.]
- A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
- Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.
- Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.
- Reuters, the global information and news group, has published international research revealing pronounced differences in the way that nationalities around the world are coping with the information age. The research shows that while some countries are now
- Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it.
- Schools must make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning, research, information literacy and student-centered classrooms. Students will need a radically different skills array to negotiate this new information landscape.
- New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
- This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international organisation. (Acrobat File).
- An abstract of a study by M.Montebello. Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium. A downloadable copy of the entire study is available in .PDF format.
- Information Overload is a unique problem. Information tends to be everywhere and we have problems even to remember where we put it, much less what it is. Here is a small collection of links to increase your information overload about information overload.
- Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
- Looks at a number of solutions, including "agency," agent-like applications, improvements in the information chain and information brokering, which may help deal with information overload in the online marketplace. By Bjorn Hermans.
- Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain.
- Scholarly article with definitions, statistics, problems and processes, trends, suggestions, conclusions, and references for further reading.
- Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]
- Information Overload. Info-glut. Infobog. Data Smog. As information proliferates so do the labels for this malaise of the "Information Age." In this half-century, for the first time in history, the capacity for producing information is far great
- An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]
- This article by David Kirsh, which appeared in Intellectica, distinguishes supply related overload from demand side overload and how environments must be designed to minimize overload's negative consequences.
- Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
- By William Van Winkle from Computer Bits magazine.

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