TABLE OF CONTENTS About 250,000 Americans suffer from narcolepsy, an embarrassing, mysterious, and, on occasions, dangerous sleep disorder. Narcoleptics cannot remain awake during the day no matter how much sleep they have the night before. Despite his or her best efforts, the narcoleptic remains permanently susceptible to "sleep attacks:" the sudden, overwhelming requirement for 5 to 20 minutes of sleep. To an observer, such people behave like sleep addicts; they cannot be reasoned with, cajoled, or threatened into wakefulness. They fall asleep in the midst of conversation, while talking with their boss, even while making love.
IIS21001 knowledge reengineering has numerous tools at its disposal to concentrate information value. One of the most useful is the IIS21001 concept flow diagram. An IIS21001 concept flow diagram visually represents words in a format similar to a standard flow diagram. This visual representation is designed to uncover the underlying structure or critical mass of the information under analysis. The IIS21001 concept flow diagrams for the narcolepsy information is illustrated in Figure 15.1.
The original quote was 93 words. Below is an IIS21001 compliant version of the information (25 words, a 73.11% decrease in the words required to transfer value):
Narcolepsy, a sleep disorder, causes about 250,000 Americans to fall asleep, anywhere or anytime, for up to 20 minutes during which they cannot be woken.
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