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The Hidden Costs of Information Work

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: IDC
Published: April 2006
Product Code: R104-26705
Description

What does information work cost the enterprise? This IDC update discusses the results of a survey in which IDC asked respondents from 600 U.S. companies how much time they spent on various information tasks. Then we interviewed customers to fill in the cracks in the data with qualitative information. Our goal was to determine the costs of information work and the return on investment that companies could hope to gain by investing in content applications such as content management and search.

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In This Update
What Does Information Work Cost the Enterprise?
How Do You Quantify Information Work?
What We Found
Table: The Cost of Information Tasks to the Enterprise
Figure: The Cost of Information Tasks to the Enterprise per Worker per Week
Table: Hours Wasted per Week per Task
Figure: Annual Cost to the Enterprise of Hours Wasted per Week per Task
Tangible ROI from Content Management and Retrieval Applications
Intangible Benefits
Conclusion
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