Basex, a leading management research and consulting firm focused on the knowledge economy has garnered a wee bit of press suggesting that 2008 will be the year of Information Overload. This announcement coincides with the launch of a multi-client study on the problem with the hopes of finding a solution. If you are willing and able to participate in the study, please check out their website and sign up.
Personally, I think that this is great. I have been spending a lot of time for the past 8 years researching what I like to call Personal Knowledge Performance. Defined, the term is about helping knowledge workers deal with the ever-increasing volumes of information that comes at them. It is about working more productively in searching, finding, developing, publishing, and disseminating knowledge.
You see, I believe that no one really knows how to deal with the volumes of information because we have never been trained. Yes, there are an abundance of time management and other solutions for gaining some productivity, but that still does not get rid of the volumes. We still show up to work and see the piles of work ready to consume us - we just know when the piles will consume us now.
So, I encourage those that can to participate in the study. The more people involved the better the outcome can be. I will be posting many of my thoughts and ideas on this blog moving forward, so stay tuned here as well - together we can conquer information overload :-)
