Society Events
Information: a Blessing or a Curse?
Date: Mon, Apr 26th, 2010 6:30:01 pm | Location: Vantis PLC, 66 Wigmore Street, London W1 | Speaker: Ian Price, Grimsdyke Consulting & Allison Grant, Davies Arnold Cooper
Information overload is a business wide problem. However, recruitment and resourcing can be seen as a barometer because of the complexity of the amount of information which is processed. This session will review the fallout of the problem: legal issues, stress on individuals and related issues. What can be done to address what many people still regard as a 21st century version of leprosy: a problem seen by some as afflicting only the less fortunate and those least able to cope but which in reality affects everyone?
Just because employees have become used to getting information like drinking water from a fire hose, it does not mean that they have "adapted" to this new environment. Research suggests that the opposite is the case - ineffective use of email and Blackberries can eat up an average 20% of people's time and have an adverse effect on the use of the remaining productive time.
Ian Price of Grimsdyke Consulting will share with the Society some of the results of assignments he has undertaken, and illustrate how discipline, organisational will and the support of management are needed to reverse the trend.
Complementing this is the problem of the burgeoning legal area of the use of information. Allison Grant will focus on the legal implications for those involved in Resourcing of the exponential growth of so much information. Allison, a CEDR accredited mediator, is an employment law specialist and a partner at City law firm Davies Arnold Cooper. She advises a broad range of clients on domestic employment matters including, over the years, the related issues of work life balance and stress at work, and has contributed to publications by IoD and the Institute of Risk Management.
We should like to thank Vantis PLC for sponsoring and hosting this event.
Member price: £0
Non member price: £25
