Information rich, attention poor: Understanding and addressing executive information overload

Special Publication / January 2021

Executives face more information than they can effectively process on a daily basis, leading to information overload. There's simply a point at which another piece of data or another opinion to consider hurts decision-making performance. Our capacity to find all important data, process it effectively, and make correct decisions is limited. 

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After two years of research and experimentation, our CEO Carlos Alvarenga wrote this white paper on information overload, in which he addresses how it leads to a loss of competitiveness and offers suggestions for ways to overcome it.

Decision makers often face information overload as a wealth of information, in turn, creates a poverty of attention.