Introduction
Organizations have a wealth of information at their disposal due to globalization and the internet. The amount of digital data available on the Web every day reaches records of mind-boggling proportions and presumably accumulating at an ever-increasing rate, estimated at 30-percent growth per year from 1999 to 2002. (Blair) This data, developed into information the organization may utilize must be filtered and verified for validity. People are an organizations best asset. Organizations are likely to find better solutions to information overload through changes to their social systems.
Availability of Information
As Blair stated above, the amount of information available has become staggering and will increase substantially over the years. More important, information overload was experienced long before the appearance of today's digital gadgets. Complaints about "too many books" echo across the centuries, from when books were papyrus rolls, parchment manuscripts, or hand printed. The complaint was also common in other cultural traditions, like the Chinese, built on textual accumulation around a canon of classics. (Blair) Therefore, historically the problem or precedent was started long ago; the internet has only hastened the issue and increased the amount of information available to an organization.
It is this information overload that poses additional stress and clarification onto organizations. Organizations now need to filter and substantiate the information, or data, due to the unsure validity of such. With this unfortunate availability of information overload due to technology and the internet, organizations must develop information into usefulness. Information is data that has been given meaning b...
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