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70% of emails are attended to within 6 seconds of their arrival

The majority of email users suffer from email task overload which effects their productivity. There's a simple solution

Estimated 96 billion email messages are being sent everyday!

There is an estimated 1.2 billion email inboxes worldwide.

 
  Press Releases  
 
Role of email in the distraction society - article by Damon Young <more>

Dr Jackson on New York Radio on email overload <listen> or read the article <more>

"Death by Email" - Records Management Society Conference 2009 <more>

The Oprah Magazine - "Email Tasks" Dec 08 <more>

Dr Jackson on Leicester Sound "Emails Taking Over Your Life?" interview - Mon 6th Oct <more>

View Magazine - "Email – essential office tool or costly communication?" <more>

Birmingham Post - "New ways for malicious software to land on your computer" <more>

Guardian article - "Breaking the email compulsion"  <more>

The Sydney Morning Herald article - "Email becomes a dangerous distraction" <more>

Dr Jackson on BBC Radio Essex "You Have Email" interview - Sat 12th April

Dr Jackson on BBC Breakfast - "How to stop e-mails taking over your day" <watch>

Dr Jackson appears in The Money Programme's "Email is Ruining My Life" BBC2 7th March 2008 at 19:00 <more>

E-mail is ruining my life! Article feature Tom Jackson <read>

What you had to say about email problems <read the debate>

Guardian article - "Email 'a broken business tool' as staff spend hours wading through inboxes" <read>

Staff email use is costing UK businesses millions of pounds finds Loughborough University research <more>

Dr Jackson explains how to Find Experts via email <more>

 

 

 
   
 

SUCCESSFUL GRANTS – TRACK RECORD (2002 on)

 

Name

Value (£ K)

Awarding Body

Year

Investigator

Configuration Management of Global Information Systems

 

45

Rolls-Royce

2002

CI

Knowledge Management of Global Information Systems

 

45

Rolls-Royce

2002

PI

Development of an Electronic Information Distribution System

 

69

Danwood Group

2002

PI

The Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency of Information Systems

 

38

 

EPSRC – CNA

 

2003

PI

The Analysis and Development of Vehicle Testing Software using Data Mining Techniques

 

169

 

TCS

 

2003

PI

Travel Grant to attend IRMA conference in Philadelphia

 

1

Royal Society

2003

PI

Researcher into AI Web Searching

 

11

CHEVENING TECHNOLOGY

 

2003

PI

Capture & Manage E- Knowledge

 

 

11

CHEVENING TECHNOLOGY

 

2004

PI

Electronic Message Classification and Notification App

 

 

11

CHEVENING TECHNOLOGY

 

2004

PI

Integrated Knowledge Workspace

 

 

11

CHEVENING TECHNOLOGY

 

2004

PI

"Real-time" email training application

 

11

CHEVENING TECHNOLOGY

 

2004

PI

Email Knowledge Extraction

 

15

Eureka Software Moments, USA

2005

PI

Managing Manufacturing Information

 

99

KTP – JCK Leicester

2005

PI

The Cost Effectiveness of an Email Optimising Training Programme

 

5

Professional Development, L’boro

2005

PI

The Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency of Info. Systems

 

43

AstraZeneca

2006

PI

Information Management and Business Technology

 

70

MTP

2008

PI

Automatic train timetabling

 

167

KTP – RWA RAIL, L’boro

2008

CI

Email Communication Analysis

 

 

2

Citi

2008

PI

ERP System Implementation in UK Joinery SMEs

 

97

JCK and CTA

(EngD)

2009

PI

Evaluation of IM Impact at LCC

 

27

Leicestershire County Council

2009

PI

Development of an internal Communications System for the Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth Charitable Trust

 

31

Sisters of Nazareth, Worldwide

2009

CI

Develop and embed knowledge for the effective management and use of information, using tools to assess objectives, policies, procedures to measure the impact of IM

 

117

KTP – Leicestershire County Council

2010

CI

Optimising efficiencies in the information environment of the Leicestershire Constabulary through the use of handheld mobile technologies’  

35

HEIF4

2010

PI

NPIA - user engagement and qualitative evaluation of benefits obtained

26

National Police Improvement Agency

2010

CI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

£1,156,000

 

 

 


 

 
 
 

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