Thursday, April 19, 2007

Does IT Make You More Productive

Computerworld.com posted an interview with Marshall Van Alstyne. He and his co-authors Sinan Aral and Erik Brynjolfsson recently completed a five-year study analyzing 1,300 projects and 125,000 e-mails to see how IT affects individual productivity.

Some of the key findings are that heavy IT users do more multi-tasking and therefore and can take on a heavier workload.

Download the whole paper here. [SSRN.com]


1 comment:

  1. Wow! 5 years for analyzing. But the results are obvious. Nothing new!

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