The market economy forces enterprises to strive for the optimization of every action taken. Until now, companies have focused on optimizing management, production processes, inventory levels, or IT systems, while the field of information flow and management itself has been neglected.
The rapid development of information technology has contributed to an increase in the volume of paper and electronic documents, and traditional solutions have become inefficient. The process of information decentralization, its migration to virtual offices and homes, has caused a real information explosion. It is estimated that the amount of processed information has increased eightfold over the last five years. In the modern world, the well-known proverb “time is money” has lost its relevance in favor of the phrase “information is money.” Information is a product that must be managed. The success of any organization depends on the efficiency of information management, and its carrier is the document. It is an essential and irreplaceable foundation for the existence of the economy. As the amount of processed information grows, so does the number of processed documents. The myth of the paperless office has proven unrealistic – there is a continuous increase in the amount of paper documents produced. However, their structure is changing.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2002\/1.<\/div>
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The rapid development of information technology has contributed to an increase in the volume of paper and electronic documents, and traditional solutions have become inefficient. The process of information decentralization, its migration to virtual offices and homes, has caused a real information explosion. It is estimated that the amount of processed information has increased eightfold over the last five years. In the modern world, the well-known proverb “time is money” has lost its relevance in favor of the phrase “information is money.” Information is a product that must be managed. The success of any organization depends on the efficiency of information management, and its carrier is the document. It is an essential and irreplaceable foundation for the existence of the economy. As the amount of processed information grows, so does the number of processed documents. The myth of the paperless office has proven unrealistic – there is a continuous increase in the amount of paper documents produced. However, their structure is changing.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2002\/1.<\/div>
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