We estimate that professionals today spend up to 3 hours in email communication, or in average about 20% of their productive working time.
Some main problem with emails are:
Fragmentation
Spam
In-Consistancy
Especially for team leaders and managers, communication is the central part of their work. Written communication becomes more important in future through the trends of:
Globalization
The knowledge Economy
The main problem with
email today comes from Communication in the future will move out of inboxes onto
the ‘collective’ web.
This will lead to the
following advantages: Advantages:
Contextualization
– No Fragmentation of information!
– Time to read a newspaper vs time to read the same amount of ‘newsletters'?
No Spam
– From Push only to push to places, pull from places