Comments on: More from IO summit in London http://iorgforum.org/blog/2009/11/16/39/ IORG members post on information overload topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lesa Becker PhD http://iorgforum.org/blog/2009/11/16/39/comment-page-1/#comment-25342 Lesa Becker PhD Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:03:55 +0000 http://iorgforum.org/blog/?p=39#comment-25342 I agree information overload is about management - don't we wish there was a technological solution to the problem! When I completed my dissertation on information overload, my study participants concluded the organizational environment was the chief contributor to IO. They recommended a more disciplined approach to managing information, communication, priorities, projects and decision making in organizations. The solution is as multidimensional as the problem. Maybe CIO's should become chief intellectual capacity officers since the limiting factor is the human capacity to process information. We owe it to the people in our organizations to manage this problem before they short circuit. I agree information overload is about management – don’t we wish there was a technological solution to the problem! When I completed my dissertation on information overload, my study participants concluded the organizational environment was the chief contributor to IO.

They recommended a more disciplined approach to managing information, communication, priorities, projects and decision making in organizations. The solution is as multidimensional as the problem.

Maybe CIO’s should become chief intellectual capacity officers since the limiting factor is the human capacity to process information. We owe it to the people in our organizations to manage this problem before they short circuit.

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