Why you should spend time organizing information in your company By FirstWatch July 27, 2021 “For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.”Benjamin Franklin We agree with the sentiment, but we think it’s lowballing the actual value of organization – especially when it comes to organizing the information you need to make successful decisions for the future. And it’s why we put so much emphasis on our ability to let you organize the information you want, your way, with FirstWatch. Information is vast, it’s everywhere. Its value is relative and its use is unique from individual to individual; organization to organization. And that’s why the technology solution for success needs to be built to suit your needs.Let us repeat – the information you want, your way. How does FirstWatch make it possible? The information you want… With FirstWatch, the power is in your hands. You can choose which specific information sources you want to be centralized into your portal; adding as few or as many suit your needs. Interested in a scientific journal? Add it in. Interested in a frequent blog? Add it in. Want the latest news articles from a specific news service? Add it in. It’s simply a matter of finding the RSS feeds that you want, and saving them into your FirstWatch platform. No longer do you need to be chasing multiple sources and constantly refreshing information streams to ensure you’re keeping up with the ‘latest’. Instead, centralize it all in FirstWatch and start building a personalized insight site, for you. … your way… Once you’ve centralized the information sources that you need into the platform, FirstWatch gives you the ability to organize that information into topics that suit your workflow. These topics can be built at the company level; ensuring the topics that matter across your business are made available to key stakeholders, or at the individual level; ensuring you can organize and manage your own information workflows and strategies to keep up to date with the critical information you need. It’s simply a matter of choosing the keywords that you want the topic to capture, and the information sources you want it to include, and… viola… information your way. But it doesn’t stop at organizing your information into topics of interest. Once you’ve discovered (or built your own) topics that interest you, you’re in control of how you ingest the information… Email alert in real-time? ✅ Personalized homepage displaying the topics you’ve favorited? ✅ Daily updates on topics delivered when you have your morning coffee? ✅ FirstWatch lets you subscribe to alerts on the topics you want, at the frequency and rate that you choose, or personalize your individual homepage on the platform to display the latest info on any of the topics that you are interested in. … and a sprinkle of expertise for good measure If that’s not enough, our expert editorial team has already put together a series of topics on subject areas and industries that we know you’ll be interested in. Your FirstWatch platform comes pre-packed full of the expert topics for you to make use of (or ignore and do your own thing) at your leisure. Why does this all matter? One word – time. We never have enough of it, so why waste what little we have? FirstWatch saves you time by getting the information you need in a way that suits you. Simple as that. No longer do you need to pore over multiple information sources to find the juicy insights that you need. Centralize them in FirstWatch… organize them in a way that suits you… set up an alert or add a topic to your homepage… and get your time back. Like we said at the start; for every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned. We reckon it’s more like two. If you want to find out more or have a chat about how you might use FirstWatch for your team, follow this link.