Posted by Reilly Atkinson on November 08, 1999 at 16:46:19:

In Reply to: Re: Information Overload posted by Randy Jordan on November 07, 1999 at 10:32:56:

RJ -- Just a couple of points. As part of my training at business school, I was taught to focus upon integration of efforts and information; to develop systems and work procedures or what ever -- approaches that got the job done, served business purposes not narrow baronial or provincial purposes. It was general management's job to insure that people in different departments or functions worked together to "get the job done", to make sure that IT served the organization rather than a bunch of technocrats, and to develop rewards for doing the right thing. But, things change -- although basic business problems don't.

Reality hence info and knowledge are multivariate. Thus there are many instances in which the standard 2-D spreadsheet symbolic rep does not cut the mustard. Consider how the spreadsheet representation might or might not work in the case of the info and knowledge an ER physician needs to bring to a severe trauma case?

Scholars, attorneys and physicians routinely deal with huge overloads - think of tax attorneys, oncologists, cognitive scientists, and the like. In any field there are literally hundreds of pages published everday. How does one keep up? So, as surely some do, there are, perhaps, many
clues to be found in the habits of successful professionals

Just a few thoughts
Regards
Reilly Atkinson

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