Frustrated at the time you waste seeking some needle of information in your haystack of a desktop? Welcome to the human race, says industrial-organizational Psychologist Jeffrey Stanton. “The human being is a limited-bandwidth processor,” says Stanton, an assistant professor at Bowling Green State University’s Doctoral Program in Industrial-Organizational Psychology in Bowling Green, Ohio. “A number of studies suggest that people are overwhelmed by the amount of information coming across their desktops. So there is a clear need for tools that can present what we need in an intelligent way.”Franklin Covey, renowned for its day planners and time-management training, may have that tool. FranklinCovey OnePlace, developed with Pasadena, Calif.-based Enfish Technology, enables users to organize all desktop information on a computer screen. Type a client’s name in the find bar, for example, and OnePlace scans e-mail archives, your desktop folders, your company’s intranet and the Internet, and retrieves everything related to that client. In one window with up to six panes, you can see all correspondence with and about the client, contact numbers, spreadsheets, to-do lists, webpages and more.That’s just the kind of product David Tanner wants. Tanner, president and CEO of management consultancy ISO Health Care Group in Westport, Conn., expects OnePlace to be a big time-saver. “It’s important to me to be able to have multiple windows open at once and in one place. I don’t want to have all that layering on the desktop and have to search through all that,” he says. “This eliminates a lot of jumping back and forth.” Related content News Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers, including some at AWS The latest round of Amazon layoffs will impact AWS, Twitch, advertising and PXT, CEO Andy Jassy said. By Jon Gold Mar 20, 2023 3 mins Technology Industry Cloud Computing BrandPost What’s next for network operations Broadcom: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT By Serge Lucio, Vice President and General Manager, Agile Operations Division Mar 20, 2023 8 mins IT Leadership Networking BrandPost Digital transformation obstacles: Stubborn challenges, what to do about them Value Stream Management is an increasingly essential approach to strategic transformation initiatives. To help teams more fully capitalize on the opportunities it presents, Broadcom is holding its third annual VSM Summit. By Marla Schimke, Head of Product and Growth Marketing, Broadcom's Enterprise Software Division Mar 20, 2023 3 mins Devops Software Development Feature CEO directives: Top 5 initiatives for IT leaders As organizations change course with economic gyrations, collaboration between IT and business becomes priority No. 1 for CEOs. By Stacy Collett Mar 20, 2023 7 mins IT Leadership Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe