Among thousands of researches a new study “Value of an Hour” has revealed that European knowledge workers loose 11, 9 hours per week due to the following factors:

Inefficient management of information,
Ineffective meetings,
Poor communications,
Inept project management
Substandard collaboration processes

But 1000 people assure that Mindjet’s Productivity Self-Assessment Calculator helped them potentially save over two hours per day.

The questionnaire was split into 4 areas:

Meeting effectiveness;
Communication and collaboration;
Information management and analysis;
Project as well as task management

Mindjet makes software that helps people visualize and use information. Its leading product, MindManager software, enables individuals and teams to work smarter, think creatively, and save time every day. There are over 970,000 licenses of MindManager software used globally by 85 of the Fortune 100 companies and more than 50 percent of the Global 2000.

In comparison with redundant tasks in daily information management, consolidation, evaluation and preparation information coming from different sources to make it usable for projects, the solution of Mindjet lies in reducing the number of required steps and having a flexible format for all information and useful processes for collaboration in meetings or projects.

sourcewire.com lists the average saving potential of the questionnaire participants that is as follows:
------------------------------Hours spent per week-----------Saving potential Meeting effectiveness ----------9:02 h-------3:16 h
Information Management & Analysis--------6:50 h --------2:41 h
Communication & Collaboration------------5:28 h ----------2:00 h
Project / Task Management---------------10:48 h -------3:58 h
-------------------------------Total: 32:08h-----Total: 11:55 h

Test evaluation allows calculating just how much time you currently spend on areas which could be reduced. According to the evaluations one can gain 3-6 hours of productivity a week by using MindManager 7.