http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2007/07/30/multi-tasking-why-projects-take-so-long/ Management Improvement focused on Deming, lean thinking, innovation, customer focus, six sigma, etc. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2007/07/30/multi-tasking-why-projects-take-so-long/comment-page-1/#comment-36098 Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Stop Starting and Start Finishing – Jason Yip Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:22:05 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2007/07/30/multi-tasking-why-projects-take-so-long/#comment-36098 Jason Yip explores the value of reducing work in process and reducing context switching costs to optimize throughput. By designing processes to work on projects serially instead of in parallel we reduce context switching, and other costs, of multitasking... Jason Yip explores the value of reducing work in process and reducing context switching costs to optimize throughput. By designing processes to work on projects serially instead of in parallel we reduce context switching, and other costs, of multitasking…

]]> http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2007/07/30/multi-tasking-why-projects-take-so-long/comment-page-1/#comment-35323 Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Multitasking Decreases Productivity Mon, 10 May 2010 23:22:48 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2007/07/30/multi-tasking-why-projects-take-so-long/#comment-35323 "In a recent study by Eric Horvitz and the University of Illinois, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages..." “In a recent study by Eric Horvitz and the University of Illinois, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages…”

]]> http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2007/07/30/multi-tasking-why-projects-take-so-long/comment-page-1/#comment-29179 CuriousCat: The Siren Song of Multitasking Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:04:21 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2007/07/30/multi-tasking-why-projects-take-so-long/#comment-29179 "On average, workers are interrupted once every ten and a half minutes, according to Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who studied the cost of worker multitasking. Once interrupted, it takes a worker 23 minutes on average to get back to the task she was working on..." “On average, workers are interrupted once every ten and a half minutes, according to Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who studied the cost of worker multitasking. Once interrupted, it takes a worker 23 minutes on average to get back to the task she was working on…”

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