Jonathan Spira's Information Overload Speech Topic:

The Information Overload Crisis and How to Jump-Start Your Innovation and Productivity.

   From endless e-mail, social media, and texting, to poor search tools and a dramatic increase in information generation, Information Overload is stretching the bandwidth of businesses and employees at unprecedented levels. Revealing how the very tools deployed to make knowledge workers more efficient have in turn bogged productivity down, Spira explores the many ways today’s tidal wave of information has bombarded and dulled our senses as well as hampered our ability to innovate and produce. He examines the staggering statistics of time and money lost due to Information Overload. Finally, Spira provides details, tips, and strategies that the world’s leading organizations, including IBM, Intel, Morgan Stanley, and the U.S. Air Force have employed.

About Jonathan Spira:

   A noted author and expert in the field of Information Overload, Jonathan B. Spira is CEO and chief analyst of Basex, a research firm focusing on issues companies face as they navigate the knowledge economy. His new book, Overload! How Too Much Information Is Hazardous To Your Organization published by Wiley & Sons, is the culmination of more than ten years of research with some of the world’s top companies. The book details how Information Overload has infiltrated the workplace and our daily lives, and offers tips and strategies on how to deal with the dizzying excess of information.

   Mr. Spira is recognized as one of the technology industry’s leading thinkers and pundits, having pioneered the study of knowledge workers and how information technology impacts them.   He began studying the problem of Information Overload more than two decades ago and his findings, which include data on the lost productivity of knowledge workers, have been cited by thousands of papers and articles on the topic.

   Mr. Spira, who directs all research and analytic activities at Basex, is a founding board member of the Information Overload Research Group.

   He is also the author of Managing the Knowledge Workforce: Understanding the Information Revolution that’s Changing the Business World (Mercury Business Press) and co-author of The History of Photography (Aperture), which was named a best book of the year by the New York Times.

   Mr. Spira speaks regularly to industry and business groups like Google on Information Overload-related subjects. He is a frequently cited news source and commentator for a broad range of business, trade and broadcast media (including Time magazine, the New York Times, Business Week and the Wall Street Journal).