Email Usage Facts
Here are some interesting corporate email facts that demonstrate the proliferation of email in today's corporate world: Labels: Romeo Elias
According to research stats found online, about 541 million workers worldwide rely on email to conduct business. In addition, the use is not moderate, in fact corporate users are sending and receiving an average of 133 messages per day and this number is expected to reach 160 messages by 2009. That's A LOT of email for the average business user!!
According to the Enterprise Storage Group, messaging is the most pervasive technology in use today. Their research shows that more than 70% of business-critical information may be stored in an organization's corporate messaging system. Can you imagine the security issues and the difficulty in accessing this business-critical information?
Another research group, the Radicati Group, found that the average corporate email user sends and receives a total of 84 messages per day. How many of those relate to project status, project data or other project related information?
We recently heard of a top level executive at Disney who was going through over 150 emails every day, spending around 45 minutes of his time daily just to determine the status and details of a specific project. Does that sound familiar?
How much time are you spending on email to get basic information on your projects?
posted by Romeo Elias at 10:13 AM
2 Comments:
The use of emails has proven cumbersome and inefficient for even my small personal and community involved activities.
For my personal community activities the implementation and use of a common input/reference area for all participants has paid off, and is vital to our increasingly efficient productivity.
I am proud to be a part of the team at Interneer Inc., as we present Interneers' Intellect software. I am appreciating bringing our product to Enterprise organizations and effecting their efficiency in productivity. Seeing people (professionals) be excited about their work is very rewarding.
November 18, 2005 1:58 PM
E-mail is a great communication tool with a great deal of tracking capability. You can store, categorize and assoicate your mails with documents. Those advantages make E-mail desirable for project management and yes it may handle project management up to a point (let's say if you have two minor projects) but it sure is not a scaleable project management tool or a document management system. An executive manager's time is valuable and it shouldn't be spent on digging up the latest project status e mail from hundreds of e mails or figure out which one of his contacts is the appropriate to contact for a particular project etc...
To sum up E-mail is a perfect supporting element of a project management or a document management system for the communication part, but it can't take the place of a project management system.
January 23, 2006 10:06 AM
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