The total amount of information on our planet doubles every two years; 3000 books are published every day, Internet doubles in size about every 8 months. Employees in an office environment receive an average of 93 emails per day. 
 And ... it will only increase.

Employees that can learn faster, process information better and are able to cope with information overload can execute more work. With the same headcount you get more done.

Employees lose about 25% of their time because of information overload. This is caused by interruptions and the startup time of the brain. Being constantly on-line and multitasking causes loss of concentration and the ability to do thinking work.