Information on Knowledge Management, Intellectual Capital, Intangible Cost Analysis, Intangible Risk Management, Knowledge Compression, Intangible Accounting and more. All Rights Reserved. Throughout the world people are drowning in information.
Information overload is at epidemic proportions with every sign that things are getting worse.
To cope with the Information Demands of the Information Age we need to dramatically upgrade existing summary methods. The diagram below assumes that a 100 page document is summarized to 10 pages. If focal deviation occurs valuable information is not read and converted into knowledge. An often overlooked fact is that summaries actually increase reading. After reading the 10 page summary, the 100 page document is read - total reading of 110 pages.