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"How Much Time Do You Waste Wrangling Your Information?"

This post was written by Ernest Svenson: "Did you know that, according to the Wall St. Journal, 1 hour a day is wasted in most offices looking for missing information?  This factoid is something I frequently mention whenever I'm giving a talk about 'going paperless.'  Everyone nods there head when I say this, and the expressions of the head-nodders are always ones of exasperation.  Paper is inherently hard to wrangle and so we lose a lot of information just because we can't find the paper that contains it.

But that's only part of the story, and it's probably the smaller part.  

What about information that isn't 'missing'? It's not lost, but it is in paper form as opposed to being digitized.  How much longer does it take in an average day to find that information and then act on it?..."

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Source: Ernie the Attorney, 15 April 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 22, 2010 (boomark / email).