Welcome to the information age PS: Most information is useless
March 20, 2007
Middle managers spend more than a quarter of their time searching for information necessary to their jobs. When they fi nd that information, 50 per cent is wrong or has no value to them.
That bit of workday encouragement comes from an Accenture survey of more than 1,000 middle managers of large companies in the U.S. and the U.K. Accenture also found only half of managers believe their companies do a good job of governing information distribution or have established adequate processes to determine what data each part of an organization requires.
Other findings:
> Fifty-nine per cent said poor information distribution means they miss information that might be valuable almost every day. And 42 per cent said they accidentally use the wrong information at least once a week.
> Fifty-three per cent said less than half of the information they receive is valuable.
> Perhaps most startling, 45 per cent said gathering information about what other parts of their own companies are doing is a big challenge, whereas only 31 per cent said competitor information is hard to get.
Bluetooth headsets are very useful - until you misplace them. When you lose the attractive little S-800, you use your phone to signal the headset to start buzzing.
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