Save Time and Money with the Right Financial Data
Do you have any idea how much information hits you every day? Or the effect constant interruptions really have on your productivity? Email, texts, news sites notifications, never in human history have we had to process as much information as we do now, and more comes every minute. How do we process it all? How do we see it all? Or rather, how do we see only what we need to see? Jonathan Spira is the CEO and Chief Analyst of Basex, a research firm focusing on issues companies face as they navigate the knowledge economy. In his book Overload! How Too Much Information Is Hazardous To Your Organization , published in 2011, Spira estimated that interruptions and information overload were eating up 28 billion wasted hours a year, at a loss of almost $1 trillion to the U.S. economy. I wonder what the estimate is at present, and what the projected growth on this loss is. Clearly, organizations and individuals need to get a handle on information inflows. When I began my career in finance o