New Mindjet Study Shows That Businesses Can Gain Up To 2 Hours Per Day

Published 20th November 2007

London, 20th of November, 2007 – A new study titled The Value of an Hour has revealed that European knowledge workers are losing approximately 11.9 hours per week due to inefficient management of information, ineffective meetings, poor communications, inept project management and substandard collaboration processes...

The 1,000 people across Europe who took advantage of Mindjet’s Productivity Self-Assessment Calculator found that they could potentially save over two hours per day.

The survey highlights that the main cause of loss of productivity is due to the high number of redundant tasks in daily information management. The results found that chasing information on a daily basis can amount to 1.5 hours per week and that 1.46 hours were being used just to consolidate, evaluate and prepare such information coming from different sources to make it usable for projects.

Distribution and collaboration with colleagues also proved to be very time consuming with the average respondent believing that they needed 1.5 hours to make results presentable and understandable.

According to Mindjet, the solution lies in reducing the number of required steps and having a flexible format for all information and useful processes for collaboration in meetings or projects.

After completing the questionnaire the respondents received a detailed email showing how much time could potentially be saved in four main areas by more efficient handling of information based on actual large-scale benchmark tests

The average saving potential of the questionnaire participants is as follows:

Meeting effectiveness - hours spent per week:9:02h / saving potential in hours: 3:16h
Information Management & Analysis - hours spent per week: 6:50h / saving potential: 2:41h
Communication & Collaboration - hours spent per week: 5:28h / saving potential: 2:00h
Project / Task Management - hours spent per week: 10:48h / saving potential: 3:58h
Total hours spent per week in various tasks: 32:08h
Total hours of saving potential: 11:55h

The survey of 1000 European respondents started at the beginning of November 2007 and is based on Mindjet’s Productivity Self-Assessment Calculator. It involves twenty questions split into four areas: meeting effectiveness; communication and collaboration; information management and analysis; and project as well as task management. You can learn how you can use MindManager Pro 7 to put this into practice with Mindjet’s free online ½ Hour Power Training videos.

Test the Mindjet Self-Assessment Calculator: http://www.mindjet.com/uk/savetime/