The Impact of Information Overload on Innovation

Our June 16th chat is being framed and moderated by Heba Hosny (a representative of @garious1) who is raising the issue of information overload and its impact on innovation performance…

When it comes to innovation, information overload can be a mixed blessing. But, on the whole, the positives outweigh the negatives.

Thought-Provoking Questions:

1.       In what cases would information overload stimulate innovation?

2.       When would info overload hinder innovation?

3.       I believe that some businesses are thriving on information overload and in doing so, they are innovative. Do you agree?

4.       How's information overload affecting your business innovation? (pls indicate the nature of your business in your answer).

Additional Topic Sources:

Information Overload Sparked Innovation:

That's an interesting take on my original topic indicating that information filtering and content curation were innovative solutions to deal with information overload.

http://www.quora.com/What-innovations-are-focusing-on-dealing-with-information-overload

Information overload is a myth! It's all about Information retention:

Interesting comparison between the industrial age and the information age and it changes our innovation perspective. To some extent, this post supports Q3.

http://infodrivenbusiness.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/information-overload-and-innovation/