E The Magazine For Today's Female Executive August 2018 issue

Of course, in many cases, it makes
sense to store and keep these items, since
they have real business value. But they become
outdated and unnecessary more often
than we realize. We have to face with
one of the biggest challenges of the digital
age: information overload.
Information Overload
While working, we get more and more
information each day. We also create more
and more. It is unavoidable. It is a part of
our everyday life.
We not only have to store this huge volume
of content, but also need to process
everything: we have to understand, analyze,
and work with. We have to respond,
take actions, and make decisions.
Statistics show that the average person
today processes more information in a single
day than a person in the 1500s did in an
entire lifetime (before printing was invented).
[Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
news/science/science-news/8316534/
Welcome-to-the-information-age-174-
newspapers-a-day.html]
Have you ever thought about the
impacts of this?
The volume of information gets especially
crazy when we accumulate it within the organization
over time. There are more and
more enterprises with the challenge of having
hundreds of millions(!) of documents,
increasing every day, stored in many different
systems.
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