Do you have 38 minutes? Then you can help me find a document - The Diigo Meta page

• 31 Jul 09
  

  jptaravella

  A new survey, however, finds that employees at big companies (with more than 10,000 employees) spend, on average, 38 minutes searching for one document — whether that’s on their own computers or their organization’s networks, databases or intranet.

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• 20 May 09
  

  Douglas Schultz

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• 19 May 09
  

  lilian ricaud

  In this age of sub-one-second Google search queries, modern networking and T1 Internet connections, it seems ludicrous that any type of information-based search would take even 38 seconds to complete. A new survey, however, finds that employees at big com

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  Bertrand Duperrin

  A new survey, however, finds that employees at big companies (with more than 10,000 employees) spend, on average, 38 minutes searching for one document -- whether that's on their own computers or their organization's networks, databases or intranet.

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  • Just 9 percent of the companies responding to the survey have an automated system in place for locating experts.
  • Inside corporate firewalls, the consequences of bad findability are less immediate, harder to measure and less visible. The connections to the bottom line results are harder to trace. But bad findability internally will nonetheless lead to death, although a slow and painful one.

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